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Friday, July 10, 2009
John Kline :: Townhall.com Columnist
Democrats' Health Care "Reform": The Next Job Killer
by John Kline
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Will the Dems' health care Christmas Present to America be an improvement or detriment to our health care system?


Republicans have serious reservations about the Democratic health plan. And we have developed solutions we believe can get the job done.

In fact, we think we can contribute to meaningful change of our health care system in this decade just as we spearheaded welfare reform in the 1990s and the tax code in the 1980s. Some of our Republican proposals to change health care in America include:

• Creating opportunities for small businesses to pool their resources to offer higher quality coverage.

• Providing tax credits to help small businesses cover the administrative costs of establishing and maintaining health coverage.

• Giving incentives to states to redesign insurance laws to make health care coverage more affordable to their residents.

• Cutting regulations so insurance companies can compete for your business, which allows you to shop around for the best coverage and price that fits your needs.

• Allowing tax deductions to offset the cost of purchasing individual insurance.

• Fixing medical liability rules that make trial lawyers rich at the expense of patients and doctors.

These are just some of the many ideas my fellow Republicans and I have proposed to improve health care in the United States. You can check out more at www.gop.gov.

If this recession is going to end, Democrats need to focus on creating jobs – not killing them. The American people deserve no less.

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Congressman John Kline was elected to represent Minnesota’s Second Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2002, and was re-elected to a second term in 2004.

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Reply # 1
Date: Jul 30, 2009 - 8:25 AM EST
National Health Care Disaster
Now they are saying that small business will have to cover employees? Well, I have a small business, the only thing that saves me on that (I think) is because most of my employees (9) are covered by the parent. They are hight school or college.
The other thig is I have had breast cancer twice, and even though we are now on Cobra (because of my husband being laid off) I want and still am able to choice who my doctor is, when I have my appoinment time, within reason, and and tests that need done at a resonable time.
Besides, we do live in the United States not Canada.
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Reply # 2
Date: Jul 12, 2009 - 6:12 PM EST
Oh, you live in fear all right.
Greyhawk? Ha! You fear our government. You are so cynical, and so unabliged to read facts that you will make up your fear and turn you world into an obligatory regurgitation of misinformed complaints.

That's what TH columnists foment, regurgitated nonsense, meant to cause fear and loathing of the real world. The obfuscating tactic they and now you are perpetuating is to rationalize your obstruction of a quality America. Truly unAmerican of you, as I see it.

I have numerous links throughout this thread, and I will repeat two.

http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=2870

http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2009/07/ed_lazear_on_a. html

I've made note that it's too early to judge the stimulus as it was planed to hit in Sept. this year through Oct. next year. How can anyone with a brain argue against something that hasn't been implemented?
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