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Solutions for Patient Centered ~ Patient Driven Health Care Reforms

America's health care system is the finest in the world. However, with Americans living longer and the rapid advancement of technology, the requirement for health care is growing and the cost for care continues to rise. The cost of health insurance has risen to the point that many families are unable to afford adequate insurance coverage. The liberal leadership in Congress' answer to this problem is a government-controlled universal health care system funded by the taxpayers.

Socialized medicine is a formula that will destroy the availability and accessibility of quality health care in America. The debate should not be simply how to pay for health care, the more important question is how to reform the system so that it becomes Patient Centered and Patient Driven. We must find ways to reduce the cost by creating a market-based system that will increase competition, drive down costs, increase accessibility, improve quality, and put each patient in control of their own care. Self-employed citizens should have the same tax breaks for health insurance that are offered to businesses and corporations. Health payment plans should be available to every American and the health benefits should be portable.

I will support health care reform that is based on a free and competitive market and guarantees individuals affordable, portable and accessible health care choices. The quality of America's health care is the envy of the world, but the surest way to destroy this is to create a central government bureaucracy to control and ration medical care.