Health

I believe that all Tennesseans deserve access to affordable, high quality health care. However, I do not believe that moving our healthcare system to a single payer system that would put a government bureaucrat between you and your doctor is the way to accomplish this. The passage of Obamacare represents a massive overreach of government that will be costly, represents a threat to our freedoms and is not the best way to assure that all Americans have access to quality healthcare.

As of August 2013, I have voted to repeal Obamacare on 40 separate occasions. Despite promises to the contrary, the passage of Obamacare will likely raise premiums twenty to fifty percent in some markets. These rising costs have led to cutbacks in full time employment by some employers who simply cannot afford to shoulder the increased cost of healthcare. The best solution to the healthcare crisis in America today is not a government mandate, but to allow the free market to work to find the strongest, best health care solution for Tennessee families. When I was elected to Congress I declined to accept the government provided healthcare that is offered to Members of Congress and instead continue to receive healthcare services through the same private plan my family had prior to my election.

I support the following legislation:

• HR 436: Health Care Cost Reduction Act of 2012 (passed House)
• HR 2009: Keep the IRS Off Your Health Care Act (passed House)
• H.R. 45: To repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and health care-related provisions in the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. (passed House)
• H.R. 6079: Repeals the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act 0f 2010 (passed House)
• H.R. 2668: Fairness for American Families Act (passed House)