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Their answer is only "let the taxpayers" pay for everyone.  Given that the top 50% of the productive people in the US pay 97% of all of the taxes, what she believes that "fairness" is for others to pay for her membership's costs.  It is her belief that healthcare is a right (hmm, haven't seen that in the Constitution lately - have you?).

I believe that a Right stands on its own - my right to Free Speech requires nothing from you.  My right to Practice my Religion requires nothing from you.  My right to Free Assembly requires nothing from you.  Go through the rest of the "Rights" as enumerated by the Constitution and see if they fit.

In Ms. Hawkin's world, however, she has no compunction to reach out into your wallet to cover her medical expenses (again, look at the picture of someone who would not have to contribute to her own healthcare).  I also do not want to devolve into a similar situation as Britain has, where medical services are being withheld, even as taxes are being paid, because of politically incorrect behavior (as in the case of the smoker that needed ankle surgery).

Remember, Big Government is not the answer in this case.  Setting up more and more government bureacratic layers with rules and regulations will be more costlier and costlier over time.  Healthcare will be regulated - but she will never, ever admit to that.

Once again, Sununu rolls out his conservative credentials and continues to rely on tax credits and the for-profit insurance industry to solve our country's broken health care system.

Remember, Big Government created this mess, and does much to keep it "broken" by distorting the marketplace. She talks like "conservative credentials" is an evil thing.  And of course, a profit making industry to a Union person is anathema!  They hate profit driven anything!  What she fails to realize that if there were no profit, no one would be paying anyone's healthcare costs.

After all, look what the Union pricing of its labor and benefits has done to the US Auto industry!  Hate profit - drive the industry to the brink of being bankrupt!

Tax credits are a short-term, political trick that do nothing to ensure access to quality, affordable health care and would barely make a dent in average health insurance costs --- average family premiums in New Hampshire are over $12,000.

Oh, she is SO wrong on this - tax credits in the hands of the healthcare consumers will do much to fix the government derived broken system.  No trick at all - it can be the salvation of the entire process.  Competition on a level, transparent field, always brings quality up and prices down.  All one has to do is look at Lasik surgery for results - not covered by insurance, no government backing (except for the military), it requires private payment.  Costs have PLUMMETED over the years while the quality has soared and more and more "outlier" conditions get covered every year with the next version of "profit driven" equipment makers.

So, what does she have to say about that!  How does that fit into the "trick" meme she runs into the ground?  How does she explain a new class of doctors that are refusing to take insurance or governmental funding - they become more available and less expensive as their paperwork (after all, what is government work but mostly paperwork) loads disappear.  They no longer need extra staff to fill out paperwork, they can spend more time with their patients, and with less overhead, their costs go down. 

In essence, she is AFRAID of the idea of ordinary folks, via tax credits, able to own and take charge of their own needs.  Once those tax credits are given, her drive to socialism to be stopped shorter than computer with its plug pulled.

How does that play with the "trick" meme?

Sununu's health care plan doesn't prevent insurance companies from discriminating against people with pre-existing conditions, like cancer survivors, it does nothing to guarantee a reduction in health care costs and it will not improve the quality of health care in our country.

There is nothing that prevents that either.  Look, everything costs.  Everything.  And once we go down the path that cost of treatment is irrelevant to the cost of providing that treatment, the costs will skyrocket.  Or that healthcare will be regulated by a government bureaucrat whose main charge will be, as it is in Britain and Canada and New Zealand, to keep the cost down.

It's hard enough for families to get good, affordable health care they can count on.

Once again, she fails to mention that the 1,400 or so legislated mandates to the insurance industry only raises costs.  Just one of those here in NH increased the premiums paid on behalf of our Town's employees.  Thus, not only did MY premiums go up, but my Taxes went up to.

So, Ms Hawkins, Government is going to make my healthcare more affordable?  I am just DYING to hear how you'd explain that one away......

If we want health care reform that works, we cannot have elected officials like Senator Sununu proposing so-called "reform proposals" that rely more on private insurance, give us a tax credit that pays for only a fraction of actual health care costs, and do nothing to regulate health insurance practices, premiums or profits.

Nope, can't have that, can we.  Instead, we'll have only prescribed lists of allowable procedures and medicines, lower levels of innovation, longer wait times for doctors, dentists, MRIs, and the like.  If you like dealing with your state's DMV, you'll LOVE this!

And whether she like it or not, and to our salvation, it is our elected officials that set policy and not union associated provocateurs.

Earlier this week, a broad coalition of health care organizations and advocates stood on the State House steps and signaled a commitment to make real health care reform a reality. We asked which side people were on. Senator Sununu has decided to continue putting us at the mercy of the private health insurance industry that is charging us more, giving us less and putting company profits before our health."

Once again, I only have to look to our North to Canada and Eastward across the pond to Britain to see what Zandra Rice Hawkins want us to endure.