Finding affordable health care is a real concern for families in Southern New Mexico. But a one-size-fits-all government-run health care system is not a solution. Steve Pearce’s agenda of reform starts with common sense changes that will lower costs and increase access. In Congress, Pearce fought for Health Savings Accounts, Association Health Plans, and helped pass the Medicare Prescription Drug benefit that lowered costs and saved money for millions of seniors.
Steve Will Work To Implement The Following Health Care Reform:
Preexisting Condition- People with preexisting conditions should be able to get coverage at reasonable prices.
Tort Reform
Health Savings Accounts- A medical IRA, that can be used for health care at any age, if you don’t use it, the savings build up and are yours to keep.
Portability- carry your policy with you from one job to the next
Competition across state lines- to get states to drop expensive mandates that cause the cost of insurance to be high
Steve's Thoughts On Pending Healthcare Legislation
Seniors are the big losers, the cuts to Medicare ($500 billion suggested cuts) will slash the care seniors get.
Veterans will lose in the plan.
Liberals say it won’t add to the deficit, that is ludicrous, the cost is $1.2 trillion and counting, more people believe that aliens landed in Roswell than believe that the Democrats plan will be deficit neutral.
We do not need a government takeover of medicine, if the government can run a business, let it fix the post office before it tries to takeover health care.
Government forced insurance (individual mandate) is NOT the American way-Washington is going to force you to buy insurance you do not want and will punish you if you don’t buy it by imposing fines and even possibly jail time. The Democrat health care reform bill will not improve your health and is not about care.
Government run insurance (public option), we don’t want an insurance bureaucracy and don’t need government bureaucracy, with the Democrat plan you end up with both.
Medicare and Medicaid are broke, bloated with waste and fraud…that is the government way. Here is a YouTube video from 60 minutes about $60 billion in fraud.
Steve Pearce will continue fighting for better health care for New Mexicans when he returns to Congress.
