By Star Parker,Worldnetdaily
Do you want his bureaucrats at your bedside?
Four Republicans – Sens. Coburn and Burr and Reps. Ryan and Nunes – have fired the first salvo in the great health care reform debate.
They’ve introduced the Patients’Choice Act. Now,although we have a pretty good idea of what Democrats have in mind,we await crystallization of their ideas into legislation.
The difference of approach of the two parties on health care rides on the same basic question that divides the country and the parties on everything else. Are the problems we’re facing today the result of too much government intervention in our economy and our lives or not enough?
The Patients’Choice Act reflects Republican thinking that health care costs are out of control and,as result,not affordable for many,because of too much government. It allows Americans to take direct control of their health care expenditures by giving families and individuals cash in the form of a tax credit ($5,700 and $2,300 respectively) to buy insurance and set up a Health Savings Account.