Americans Prefer Healthcare Status Quo to Obama-Democrat Health Care Reform

A recent poll shows what we already know, an overwhelming percentage of Americans prefer our American Health Care System (with all it's known faults) to the monstrosity of bureaucracy and draconian rationing Obama and his Congress are concocting.

More Americans would rather Congress do nothing than pass Obama's plan: 46 percent to 37 percent of people polled say they prefer the current health care system to the one the president has proposed.

Similarly, more people oppose — 48 percent — the health care reform legislation being considered right now than favor it — 38 percent. While most Democrats — 65 percent — favor the reforms, majorities of Republicans — 79 percent — and independents (55 percent) oppose them.

This is not surprising given less than one in four Americans (22 percent) think they would be better off under the reforms, and many (60 percent) think they will probably have to make changes to their health coverage despite Obama's assurances that they will not have to. In addition, a sizable majority (67 percent) thinks the president's plan will increase the national deficit.

By more than three-to-one, Americans say if they were sick they would rather be covered by a privately-run health insurance plan (62 percent) than a government-run plan (20 percent).

(Poll Data) Poll conducted by Opinion Dynamics Corp. conducted the national telephone poll of 900 registered voters for FOX News from Sept. 15 to 16. The poll has a 3-point margin of error.

Now I don't think this means that Americans don't want health care reform. I think it clearly shows that Americans don't want any single payer/universal/socialized/European-style health care program run by the government. We are a democracy, that means that the government is supposed to do what the people want. The people want changes in our Health Care system that will allow for better, more efficient coverage more more people without losing our quintessentially American system of free enterprise. That system has allowed our health care o be the envy of the world; the place where they go when they want quality health care. Americans clearly don't want to change that.

I would also add that this poll also shows that 60% of Americans (R 76%, I 60%, D 48%) think the country is more divided since Obama has become president vs. 27% (D 38%, I 23%, R 13%) who disagree.

Alternative to Obamacare: HR 3400

You probably don't know this, but there actually is an alternative bill to the unpopular Health Care Reform bill Obama and the Democrats in congress and trying to push on the American people. Democrat leadership has stalled the bill in committee so they can keep falsely accusing Republicans of having "no better alternatives."

Empowering Patients First Act - HR 3400

Bill Status: Referred to House Committee (stuck in committee)

Bill Summary: Introduced in House 7/30/09

The Empowering Patients First Act (H.R. 3400) would allow:

• Individuals to choose their health insurance (no mandates)
• Deductibility of health insurance premiums regardless of who pays
• Employers to provide flexible health insurance options to employees
• Health insurance coverage for low-income families (300 percent of the federal poverty level)
• Health insurance for high-risk individuals (pre-existing conditions)
• Sale of health insurance across state lines
• Expansion of Health Savings Accounts (HSAs)
• Individual membership association health insurance plan
• Association Health Insurance Plans
• Medical liability limitations (Tort reform)

Bill Text: http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bills&docid=f:h3400ih.txt.pdf

Shhhh! There’s a Republican Alternative to Democrat-Care; Don’t Let Anyone Know!

August 31, 2009
By Herman Cain

The Republican alternative to Democrat-care, which liberals don’t want you to know about, has been hijacked. They don’t want people to know about it because the Astroturf, un-American crazies might like it.

The “Empowering Patients First Act” (H.R 3400) was introduced by Representative Tom Price (R-GA) and 27 co-sponsors on July 30, 2009 prior to the congressional recess. It was then referred to eight House committees.

The head hijacker is Speaker Nancy Pelosi. As Congressman Price pointed out during a radio interview with me last week, the rules in the House assert that bills will remain in committees “for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker.” Thank you Nancy!

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"No other option but Obamacare" a Lie! Free-Market Solutions for Healthcare Reform

There have been a lot of lies coming out of DC lately about the Obama-Democrat health care reform bill. One of the most ridiculous is that there are no other options but to scrap the current American health care system and create a medicare-like social medicine program to cover everyone. This could not be further from the truth!

Free-market solutions for health care abound, such as health saving accounts (HSA), minute clinics, increased insurance coverage options and extended nurse and physician assistant responsibilites. American healthcare is the best in the world because we encourage doctors, hospitals and other medical professionals to provide the best possible health care by rewarding them for their years of study and effort. The American way is for companies and professionals to analyse public demand and adjust prices and services to meet their needs. Socialist solutions like siezing money from the rich to pay for the health care of the poor, reducing the population by refusing care to the elderly and undesired pregnancies is not only fundamentally un-American but will not work. Europe and Canada provide perfect examples of the failure of socialized medicine.

Join us as we tell our country's leaders that we will not accept a healthcare system designed and run by the people who brought us the DMV and the IRS. Say "NO" to socialized medicine and "YES" to American health care.