The quality of health care in America is the finest in the world, but the financing of health care in this country is a “basket case.” Did you know that there are over 40 million Americans, today, without health insurance?

The conventional wisdom is that these are poor people who cannot afford insurance. The truth is that the poor and elderly have health care coverage in the form of Medicaid and Medicare while employees of large corporations have private health insurance.

The uninsured in our country, those caught in the gap between government-financed care and private insurance are mainly small business owners and their employees who can't get insurance.

Well, is money being saved some place because these people have no health care coverage? No! They are forced to forgo preventive and early disease care are forced to wait until they are very sick and go to the emergency room to get rescued, where the cost is the highest. This cost is passed on to taxpayers and those under private insurance while the uninsured are often forced into bankruptcy. 

Congress has failed to help this 40 million Americans found in the health insurance gap. I want to help those individuals and families, but I do not favor so-called universal, single-payer, government-run socialized medicine scheme like that proposed by Hillary Clinton.

We can insure ALL Americans without government taking over health care and insurance.

When elected, I will submit to Congress a plan that includes the option for private insurance for all Americans that includes portability, large risk pools, health savings accounts, competition between providers to control costs and reforms that allow patients to become wise consumers.