Jack Kingston: “one of the goals that I wanted to accomplish as a Member of Congress is to help make health care more affordable and…”

“one of the goals that I wanted to accomplish as a Member of Congress is to help make health care more affordable and more accessible. This week we have a choice between two bills. One of them is the Dingell-Norwood-Ganske bill. That bill seems to be an inner baseball game, intramural game between the affluent trial lawyers, the affluent medical community and the affluent insurance companies on who can sue who. As a result, health care costs, of course, are sure to rise. On the other hand, we have the Fletcher bill that, unlike the other bill, addresses the issues of affordability and accessibility. It offers a Medical Savings Account so that the insured individual will become responsible and have an incentive to save money on his or her health care. That is one element, a key element, that is missing in our health care delivery service today. It also helps the uninsured. That brickmason back home who has two or three people on his crew, right now he is priced out of health care. Under the Fletcher bill, there will be more competition and more opportunity for him to buy health care. I urge my colleagues to vote for the Fletcher health care bill for affordability and accessibility.”