Featured Issue of the Week: Health Care Reform

Skyrocketing health care costs are the number one concern of many American families and small businesses. Sen. Cornyn believes for health care reform to work, we must reduce the costs associated with providing quality care, and increase transparency and choice.

A Washington-run health care system would put the government in between patients and their doctors, and won't make health care more affordable. Medicare and other entitlement programs are on an unsustainable course, and will require higher taxes or much more borrowing to pay for them.

Sen. Cornyn believes we can help patients get the most value for their health care dollars by offering them more choices in a market that plays by the rules.

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[katiekoco]

What the hell is up with his tie?

[russellolmedo]

This country should have healthcare for everyone. It's the right thing to do and it's possible to do without prohibitive costs. We are the only industrialized country that lets people die because they do not have money.

[clusterfacker]

The Obama plan hopes to offer a public option, it's called competition, the thing Republicans claim to support. It's what you have in a truly free market, you have choices, and if the people choose the public option the private Insurance companies will have to lower their prices to compete, or they go out of business. That's called a free market: what part of that do you not understand?

[MyFreedomChannel]

catndryer, I agree with you. I also have a pre-existing condition (since birth) and have had to wait at least a year for coverage of that; but at that point, I was still limited on what they could do for me. Go figure.

If you haven't already, call Senator Cornyn's Washington office @ 202-224-2934 and give him your opinion. I've spoken to his associates many times, and they take calls from all over the country.

[catndryer]

If your solution doesn't end the absurd Pre-Existing Condition rules that Leave all of the Self-Employed hanging out to dry.........they you've gone the wrong way. I am quite sure that the plan will help those that cannot pay.....they will come first. But we patriotic productive Americans who have actually built some assets and given a great life to our children........will end up putting a pistol to our heads one day, just to save our children's inheritence. Don't leave us out this time.

[catndryer]

Senator, I'm glad you want to get it right. But my 55 year old brother and I have a bet that whatever you guys do .......we will end up left out again. We are successful self employed Americans with money to spend on Health Care.....but no one who will cover us at a decent price. The High-Risk plan that came out with HEPA didn't work and everyone knows it....because it didn't control the costs. The Insurance Companies intentionally price us off their rolls in about two years.

[lowellriggsiam]

If memory serves Medicare is going bankrupt because it's coffers were raided to suppliment other budgets and replaced by IOU's.

[JessBottles]

Additionally I will say that you & I have an opportunity to finally begin to place these opinions at their feet & hope that others will do so also, so perhaps the Hon. Senator will see that we ARE quite aware, that we do suffer an ongoing burden inside of knowing that no matter what WE try to do, by voting, by letter writing, by working hard everyday to survive & pursue better lives that THEY have continued to fail to solve the problems that the vast majority of their constituents live with.

[JessBottles]

Yes thanks for that, I agree. Naturally they do have to debate. Our intuition & observation over decades has led us to be of the opinion that what they do goes beyond healthy debate & wastes the resources of this country, hasn't it?

[StuffedAnimalAdvisor]

Realism is everyone grows old and dies eventually. Taxes are another thing that will always be. Obviously theirs more to this situation than you wrote, but if they couldn't afford to stay in their home, then either they could have rented part of the home (ideally to family) or sold the whole thing and lived with

family/friends/cheaperplace.

I realize that's a borderline rude thing to say which I'm sorry, but realism isn't always nice. Their is a certain amount of unpleasentness to real life