Are Republicans offering serious health care reform or just trying to stop it?

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  • John R. Stripling, MD, MBA,FACS - 14 years ago

    It is sad to me that no real solutions to health care reform are worked out in Congress because everyone immediately falls along party lines by demands ofparty leadership. There are good examples of Congressmen in both parties who have attempted to introduce something for health care reform not involving a government take over of one seventh of the economy. I think the Palm Beach Post may sell more papers by an editorial that says that Republican are only introducing ideas to block the Democratic Bill. But the evidence clearly reflects that there are Republicans who are attempting to come up with meaningful reform that will encourage patients choice in providers and facilities and yet encourage health care savings. The best example I can think to prove this is HR#3400 introduced several months ago by Dr. Tom Price (R, GA). Congressman Price is an orthopedic surgeon and understands what is wrong with medical care better than 99% of the other members. His voice is not being heard because other than paying lip service to it, there is NO interest in bipartisan solutions. National Government Health Care has been around for 50+ years in other countries. We clearly know that it limits care to older people, mandates restrictions on what a doctor can treat and prescribe and unsatisable need for more and more tax dollars. All I am saying is that until we have more than 2 political parties to choose our candidates from, we will never have a system that offers real solutions. Instead we will have a system where one party works to prove the other party is "the bad guy" on the issue.

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