Issue Position: Healthcare

Issue Position

The question that most people have is why do my health insurance premiums continue to rise every year? This is a great question that deserves an answer.

It is no secret that our nation is facing a healthcare crisis, so there is growing demand to change the current situation. I agree healthcare reform is a must! The powers that be say we need more socialized medicine. Let's look at two examples in the U.S. Let's compare two states in 2009. Georgia has privately sponsored healthcare, and Massachusetts has state-sponsored healthcare. Our neighbor state pays an average of $445/month/person for health insurance, while the people in Massachusetts pay $773/month/person. In addition to this, patients in Atlanta visiting their gynecologists had an average wait time of 17 days while in the city of Boston, Massachusetts patients had to wait for their gynecologists an average of 70 days. This is a great example of socialized medicine: more expensive, longer wait times, and inevitably more frustrating. Socialized medicine like Obamacare is not the answer!

The answer is to eliminate frivolous lawsuits, downsize federal government intervention, improve Americans' consumption of food and drink, and eliminate large corporate lobbying of the Congress and the President. Doctors, hospitals, and clinics need to consider direct payment plans by the patients as opposed to third-party payments (e.g. insurance).

As Senator, Dr. Shaun Crowell will support ending Obamacare.

Anyone who would stand before you and say "well, if you pass health care reform next year's health care premiums are going down,' I don't think is telling the truth. I think it is likely they would go up.
--Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), 2010

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