Health Care Compact

Posted: Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011 at 2:06 am
By: San Antonio Tea Party

I am writing to introduce you to the Health Care Compact, a powerful tool that returns health care decision-making power back to individual states. It answers the question, “Who gets to make health care decisions for my family and me?” We believe that responsibility and authority should be here in Texas, so that you and your state legislators can work together to determine what works best for Texans.
The Health Care Compact is an interstate compact that returns responsibility and authority for the health care system to the states. It gets Congress and lobbyists out of the business of controlling the health care industry and empowers states to create their own health care system. It keeps the tax money currently collected by the Federal Government in a state and uses those funds to pay for health care in that state, creating greater accountability and more flexibility for each state government.
The Health Care Compact does not contain any health care related provisions, but rather provides a legal framework within which states can create their own health care systems. It essentially provides a permanent waiver to each member state to create whatever health care regulations the legislature deems best for the citizens of that state.
The combination of a secure funding stream and maximum flexibility for state legislators will create the conditions for multiple solutions to emerge to the health care crisis. Rather than relying upon the monopoly of the federal bureaucracy, each state will compete to find the right combination of taxes, subsidies, and direct support to meet its current and future needs.
The Health Care Compact is outlined in House Bill 5 and is up for a hearing in the Texas House Select Committee on State Sovereignty tomorrow, March 17. We encourage you to reach out to your Legislators to let them know you support this initiative.
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Also, if you would like to have a member of our team come and speak to your group or if you have more questions, please feel free to contact me directly.
Thank you,
Meredith Simonton
Regional Service Provider
The Health Care Compact Alliance of Texas
P.O. Box 27133
Houston, Texas 77227

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