Issue Position: Health Care

Issue Position

President Obama's new health care law must be repealed. It is having a chilling effect on job growth. Companies that were set to hire new college graduates have canceled their plans because of the increased cost of health insurance projected under this new law. My own primary care doctor is seriously considering his own exit strategy because of the new mandates imposed on health care professionals that will hinder his ability to provide quality care. Fewer jobs and fewer doctors is not a good combination for our health care system! In fact, it simply means that health care costs will grow even faster. The result: the wealthy will be flying to India and other countries for health care. The rest of us will be in long lines hoping for the best.

There is no question that our health care system needs to be reformed. Even before Obamacare, we had too much government intervention and control -- the very reason why health care costs continue to increase at exponential rates. This is one of the primary threats to long-term economic growth in this country. Increased health care costs not only hurt working families, but it is putting a major pinch on all taxpayers in the form of the increasing cost of Medicare and Medicaid. The healthcare system needs to be reformed significantly and soon in order to bring down the cost of individual health care. We must enact free market reforms to our health care system in order to increase competition among health insurance companies, attract more of the very best and brightest to the health care profession, and increase transparency if we expect to reduce the cost of health care. The less costly health care, the less costly Medicare and Medicaid will become.

However, these two entitlement programs have systematic problems that must be addressed through reform as well. Otherwise, the cost of these two government-run programs will be unsustainable and will require a significant increase in taxes to pay for even fewer benefits than recipients of these programs currently receive today.

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