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DEL.ICIO.USPrice: GOP failure to address health care ‘perhaps the greatest missed opportunity’
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
In today’s Wall Street Journal, U.S. Rep. Tom Price of Roswell says the GOP failure to address a broken health care system is “perhaps the greatest missed opportunity of the past eight years.”
Writes Price:
Access to quality health care has long been a professed priority, yet Republicans have been reluctant to tackle the issue.
As a physician, this is deeply disappointing to me because patient-centered health care is, at its core, conservative. Health care is fundamentally a personal relationship between patients and doctors. To honor this relationship — consistent with Republican ideals — our goal should be to provide a system that allows access to affordable, quality health care for all Americans, in a way that ensures medical decisions are made in doctors’ offices, not Washington.
Republican unwillingness to address the issue, however, has left us facing an emboldened Democratic Party well equipped to push a government-centered health-care agenda. While Democrats are still dangerously misguided in their policies, this time they are prepared to avoid the political mistakes of the Clinton administration.
But Price says the Democratic approach would wipe out private insurers.
The WSJ piece is significant as one of Price’s first policy statements as the new chairman of the Republican Study Committee, a kind of mini-think tank for the House minority party.
Photo credit: Rick McKay, Cox Washington Bureau
Comments
By Copyleft
January 7, 2009 11:34 AM | Link to this
Price says the Democratic approach would wipe out private insurers.
Let’s hope so… the biggest mistake Clinton made was trying to appease those people.
By Aaron Burr V. MExico
January 7, 2009 3:53 PM | Link to this
Republican Health Care Package:
A tax credit for a Hacksaw and a Bottle of Jim Daniels.
By Taxpayer
January 7, 2009 8:27 PM | Link to this
GOP failures are too numerous to even think of discussing. GOP successes. Now there’s a short list.