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After Democrats voted to pass an over-reaching, extraordinarily expensive, government-centric health care plan, many Americans are grasping for a way to stop it.
“Repeal it,” some say. “Sue,” say others. “Stop talking about health care; it’s not politically smart,” I’ve been warned.
Now, as a conservative Governor in Minnesota, I’ve never cowered to warnings that the right policy is not politically smart. I think we should sue and we should do everything in our power to repeal this bill.
This week, I sent a letter to our state’s Attorney General asking that she review the legality of the federal mandate that requires every individual and business to buy insurance (or pay a fine) and join a dozen other states that are suing to stop it.
Never before has such a sweeping federal mandate been enacted.
How are you fighting back? Please share any recommendations you have to turn back this bill.
Tim Pawlenty
Freedom First PAC
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Tim, thank you for taking the action you did in contacting MN's Attorney General. I fully support this course of action and hope that our state's AG joins the other states in the suit.
All involved parties should be brought together--doctors, insurance companies, patients, uninsured, pharmaceutical companies, non profit health care providers, hospitals etc. and create an alternative plan that the public can support.
I've always said that any plan should be tested first in a smaller market and any bugs eliminated.
Competition needs to be introduced to health care.
I don't think the uninsured need to be at the table.
We need to educate everyone about personal responsibility. People who are
"uninsurable" can be protected by creating tax breaks for companies that donate of their own free will to their cause.
Health insurance costs can be made more affordable by giving each individual tax breaks for buying their own health care. It being a health savings account or some kind of insurance. Of course, there would have to be some torte reform to reduce the cost of malpractice insurance.
Look at Mass. for a microcosim of what will happen to our country when this outrage is fully implemented.
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