Elect Yantis Green

Like most Americans who have health insurance, I’m very happy with the coverage  my family & I have and I really like the doctors, nurses and staff I deal with, but I’m frustrated at  the overall cost, the bureaucracy and the extensive measures taken to avoid lawsuits.  And I know that those of us who do pay for health insurance pay for the health care of those who don’t, and glady so.

The last thing the healthcare industry needs is an injection of federal oversight.  The solutions include tort reform, private competition, eliminating pre-existing condition restrictions, interstate competition, preventative medicine, personal responsibility and keeping the government as far away from health care as possible.

It sickens me to tune into cable TV and see never-ending ads from ambulance chasing lawyers and law firms eager to sue entities and companies over everything from second hand smoke to asbestos manufacturers to medical device companies, etc.

Like most issues, the leadership in Washington, D.C. has this wrong, but there are a number of private options that work for the uninsured, now.  No American who needs treatment of any kind will be turned away at the emergency room.

This country doesn’t need to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to take over the health insurance industry.  Instead, the federal government should get out of our pocketbooks, off our backs, find a way to reign in bogus threats from questionable law firms and reduce the threat of malpractice lawsuits against doctors and let the private sector do what it has always done; make the country better by focusing on what individuals need and want by doing what is right.