Michigan Matters Commentary - Health Care

We as Republicans believe that access to quality, affordable, patient-focused healthcare for all Americans makes sense.

Patients  should be at the center of their own health care decisions

Cuban-style healthcare like Clinton and Granholm advocate would be a disaster.

Families need to know they can leave their employer and start a new business, stay home with their family, or change jobs to pursue new challenges and opportunities without risking their health care coverage.

We need to show greater compassion by making sure that the federal government doesn’t stand between patients and their doctors. Every year, federal bureaucrats deny tens of thousands of patients with terminal cancer access to the newest and most promising experimental drugs. That’s wrong.

We need to move to a system of prevention rather than intervention.  As Ben Franklin said “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”

We should increase the number of people who have private insurance, stop forcing it to be government or employer dominated and make it tax deductible.

The bottom line is Republicans believe we need a patient focused, price and quality transparent, knowledge and prevention based, outcome focused healthcare system that provides greater choice and control to the individual patient.

You know, if you really want to fix the healthcare system, I’ve got a solution.  Either give every American the same kind of health care that Congress has, or make Congress have the same kind of health care that every American has. Under that scenario they’d get it fixed—and fast.