On the recordDecember 7, 2010
Absolutely. In fact, I was going to do that. I appreciate my colleague, Dr. Gingrey, for reminding me. I have a poster here with these four commonsense solutions. And actually I introduced the bill when my Democratic colleagues wouldn't take up my offer to introduce it after ObamaCare was actually passed into law. I introduced the bill that does actually five things. It repeals ObamaCare and puts in place these four commonsense solutions. It's not a comprehensive bill because it doesn't really deal with Medicare and the problems that we have with that or Medicaid, and we'll mention that in a minute or two. But the four things are to allow all individuals to deduct 100 percent of their health care costs--including the cost of the insurance--off the income taxes. This in itself would change the dynamics of health care for everybody in this country. In fact, this eventually would take care of the problems that we as physicians have with managed care because it would put patients in control of their health care decisions but allow everybody to deduct all their health care costs.
