{"id":116,"date":"2009-08-12T09:05:10","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T13:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=116"},"modified":"2009-08-12T14:21:12","modified_gmt":"2009-08-12T18:21:12","slug":"tom-coburns-health-care-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/116\/tom-coburns-health-care-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Coburn&#8217;s Health Care Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Proponenets of ObamaCare continue to\u00a0claim that\u00a0those of us opposed to a government takeover of health care have not introduced a viable alternative.\u00a0\u00a0Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK), however,\u00a0has introduced The Patients&#8217; Choice Act (S. 1099).<\/p>\n<p>The bill would:<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-138 alignright\" title=\"coburn_c_200dpi\" src=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/coburn_c_200dpi1-236x300.jpg\" alt=\"coburn_c_200dpi\" width=\"142\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/coburn_c_200dpi1-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/coburn_c_200dpi1-808x1024.jpg 808w, https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/coburn_c_200dpi1.jpg 1105w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 142px) 100vw, 142px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Equalize the tax treatment of health insurance and provides all Americans with a tax credit for the purchase of health coverage and care<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Incentivize States to establish Health Exchanges which would guarantee health coverage to any consumer, regardless of health status, age, or pre-existing condition<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Reduce waste, fraud, and abuse<\/strong>. The Patients Choice Act would change this by using existing data-matching technologies and intelligent payment structures to replace the current \u201cpay and chase\u201d culture with one of \u201cprevent and control\u201d to ensure timely, accurate, targeted payments of taxpayer dollars to providers.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Prevent Tax Increases and prevent higher deficits.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>No government-run health care plan<\/strong>. Under the Patients\u2019 Choice Act, if you like the health plan you have, you can <em>really<\/em>\u00a0keep it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can read the bill yourself <a href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/query\/z?c111:S.1099:\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proponenets of ObamaCare continue to\u00a0claim that\u00a0those of us opposed to a government takeover of health care have not introduced a viable alternative.\u00a0\u00a0Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK), however,\u00a0has introduced The Patients&#8217; Choice Act (S. 1099). The bill would: Equalize the tax treatment of health insurance and provides all Americans with a tax credit for the purchase of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,14,15],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-health-care","tag-president-obama","tag-tom-coburn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions\/130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}