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Inglis: 16 reasons to oppose public option health care plan
Health Care proposal topic of town hall meeting tonight in Boiling Spring
(August 6, 2009)
U.S. Rep. Bob Inglis (R-SC) will hold his final town hall meeting of the week tonight at the Upstate Family Resource Center in Boiling Springs (1850 Old Furnace Rd.). The town meeting tonight will begin at 7 p.m.
Inglis will walk an area neighborhood for a few hours prior to holding each town meeting that night. Staff members from the Fourth District office will also be available 30 minutes prior to each town meeting to assist constituents needing help with federal agencies.
Inglis will give his 16 reasons why the proposed health care legislation is a bad idea and explain why he plans to vote again the bill.
Reasons Rep. Bob Inglis opposes H.R. 3200
- Inclusion of a public option competing with private insurers- lead to single payer system which will destroy choice and innovation, ultimately will ration by waiting
- Taxpayer funded abortions could be provided – no exclusion language
- Cost: Would cost $1 Trillion and add $239 billion to deficit over 10 years
- Adds taxes in a recession on individuals and small businesses
- Job killer – Makes job creation more costly, rather than reducing cost
- Does not address medical liability reform
- Creation of Insurance Exchange focuses on minimum benefits and mandates without incentive for innovation or specialization
- No incentive for quality outcomes
- Current private employer-offered plans will be driven into exchange program within five years
- Public plan option will reimburse providers at Medicare-style negotiated rates which could be below private insurer rates- causing a major cost shift and undercut private insurers
- Adds entitlement program that will hamper recovery and add to the $32 trillion obligation of Medicare
- Government mandate is the only way to control costs
- Insufficient individual responsibility or choice
- Insufficient reforms of Medicare and Medicaid
- Expands Medicaid rather transition those individuals to the private insurance to have ability to choose their own health plan
- Inadequate incentive for healthy behaviors, prevention, and wellness from a patient and provider standpoint