Coalition Guest Commentary by Rep. Tom Price - Healthcare: The Conservative Alternative in the House

Perhaps the most blatant "disinformation" being promulgated in the health care debate this year is that there are only two choices for American health care: putting the federal government in charge or allowing insurance companies to run the show. While the President, congressional Democrats in charge, and, to a degree, the media have done all they can to shut out Republican ideas, the truth remains that there is a third path, a correct path.

Republicans have put forth bold ideas that can transform American health care in a positive way -- without a government takeover of medicine. Before the August recess, I joined with a number of colleagues to introduce H.R. 3400, the Empowering Patients First Act. Our solution is built upon the principle that when individuals are given control and ownership, we will achieve full access to coverage and see the entire system move in a positive, patient-centered direction. While we join in the national critique of the President's misguided proposal, we also offer positive solutions for health care reform... (Read More)

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Coalition Guest Commentary Co-Authored by Senators Tom Coburn and Richard Burr - Health Care: The Conservative Alternative in the Senate

Now that the American people have clearly indicated their disdain for the public option as a Trojan horse for government-run health care, concerned citizens should demand that members of Congress look to other alternatives.

This spring we introduced a comprehensive health care reform bill, the Patients' Choice Act, along with U.S. Representatives Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Devin Nunes (R-CA), that delivers on the stated goals of both parties -- improving health care choices, access and affordability -- without adding billions of dollars in new debt or taxes. In fact, according to independent estimates, our bill could save taxpayers at least $70 billion and states more than $960 billion over the next ten years.

What makes the Patients' Choice Act the best alternative, we believe, is that it correctly identifies the true problems in our complex health care system and lays out specific solutions to those problems... (Read More)

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Unless Americans continue to speak out and make Congress feel the heat, this bill could become law in just a matter of weeks. But we can stop it. We simply must stand together and speak out with an overwhelming voice and say "NO"!

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Capitol Hill Update: Criminal Enterprise ACORN Protected by 11 U.S. Senators

An amazing thing happened in Washington D.C. on Capitol Hill yesterday. Fear of losing reelection next year caused 172 Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives to stampede to vote against one of their key left-wing groups, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform (ACORN.) The vote to defund ACORN was: 345 to 75 with 2 Members voting "present." All Republican Congressmen voted to deny all government funding to ACORN.

In a vote on a similar but weaker amendment last Monday in the U.S. Senate, 7 Democrat Senators defied the wishes of the American people and actually voted to keep funding this criminal enterprise. All the Republican Senators voted to defund ACORN.

The seven Senators are: Roland Burris from Illinois; Robert Casey Jr. from Pennsylvania; Richard Durbin from Illinois; Kirsten Gillibrand from New York; Patrick Leahy from Vermont, Bernie Sanders, the Socialist from Vermont; and Whitehouse from Rhode Island... (Read More)

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Jimmy Carter's Charge of Racism Falls Flat

As everyone knows by now, Jimmy Carter found time to leave whatever new house he was working on to try and seem relevant again by injecting himself into the current political debate...or in this case create one...by suggesting, twice now, that the "overwhelming majority" of the opposition to Obama is based on the fact that he's black.

Well, it doesn't seem that the public is buying it.

The latest Rasmussen poll finds that only 12% of Americans "believe that most opponents of President Obama's health care reform plan are racist"... (Read More)

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The Baucus Plan Offers More of the Same in a New Wrapper

Democrat Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus released his committee's version of health care "reform" a few days ago, but in the end it pleases pretty much no one.

Liberals don't care for it because it doesn't openly ram a government-run system through, in the light of day. I suppose they don't like the idea of having to try and hide what they're really up to?

As for conservatives, the reasons to oppose it are a good bit more obvious... (Read More)

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