Republican Weekly Response: Rep. Tom Price of Georgia: Health Care Reform
August 22, 2009 at 1:56 pm
by: The Smoking Argus
WASHINGTON D.C. – Representative Tom Price of the sixth Congressional District of Georgia and a physician who practiced medicine in Atlanta, delivers the Weekly Republican Address on health care. Representative Price believes that third-party decision making and rising costs are driving patients away from doctors and the desired care they seek. However, he feels the challenge lies in supplying more accessible health care which is both affordable and patient centered without impairing the quality of care, innovation, and choices which are the cornerstones of American medicine. According to Representative Price, this is an impossible task under the Democrat and President Obama’s “one size fits all” approach to health care.
Additionally as a physician who navigated Federal health care programs, Representative Price experienced first hand how impossible it is for Washington bureaucrats to handle the personal and unique circumstances encountered by doctors and patients each and every day.
Source(s): Official Republican House Conference YouTube Channel • GOP Website
August 23rd, 2009 at 8:00 am
Dr. price, I am a 62 yearold american born citizen, who had one of the best health ins. plan there is, except that every 4 t0 6 month the preimun kept going up to where it got to high for me to pay. That is what you and others with your mind set calls good health ins. care. But it is not !. Stpo lying, and stop lying on the president. If you republican knew how to reform the heal tcare here in America, why is it not done? You and others of you, are not at all concern about what happens to the true citizens in this issue, all is on your minds is defeating the efforts of the president at any cost. We the people see through that just like we saw it during the election. While starting wars is what you all are about, Obama is about getting a little help for the american citizens with health care. So just get off the air with your hindering lies and do some good. !!!
August 23rd, 2009 at 9:55 am
Thank you for leaving a comment Pastor Mary Nelson. The Republicrats are no better equipped in to reform health care than Demopublicans. The simple fact is that government created the oligopoly of insurance giants which led to the ever rising premiums experienced by you with your current provider.
They created these monsters with passage of “The Health Management Organization Act of 1973″ which mandated employers use a “Federally Approved” HMO. This killed off the smaller insurance companies clearing the way for the insurance companies with high power lobbyists to flourish. In addition the prohibition on selling policies across state lines also curtailed competition which further oligopolized the insurance market.
In addition the Congress then passed the “Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974″ which forbid individuals from seeking relief via the courts if an insurance company’s decision to withhold care which resulted in injury or death. This prohibition only extends to those who get their insurance from their employers. However members of Congress and their families allowed themselves to sue if they were the victim of the aforementioned. This ERISA immunity has been extended to HR 3200.
So here we have a classic create the problem (escalating costs of premiums) and then offer a government solution.
Finally, consider that HR 3200 also would create uninsured by banning policies which do not have a blanket 75% protection for all health services, lest they be forced on to “public option”. An “option which is coerced upon an individual, is hardly any remnant of choice. It is however a perfect example of “government double-speak”
The unintended consequence of the “faux option” is that it outlaws “Catastrophic policies ” which only cover emergencies and hospitalization and the accompanying “Health Care Savings Accounts” which allow individuals to set aside money for routine doctors visits tax free.
August 24th, 2009 at 11:47 pm
I agree with Mary Nelson. You have live too long in a position of privilege to understand the needs of the common man. Your arguments against the public option serve only to justify that position.
August 25th, 2009 at 5:59 am
Mr. Davis:
They have all lived to long in a position of privilege off the backs of the American people to understand anything outside of their own self-absorbed reality. A party label means nothing.