Government Dividing Patients and Their Doctors

Congressman Burton held a health care forum last Friday in Kokomo, Indiana.  Several people turned out to hear his stance and ask questions on the popular topic of health care reform.  Here is an excerpt from the Kokomo Perspective article.

Burton and representatives of the Social Security Administration, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the State Health Insurance Assistance Program (SHIP) informed the audience about healthcare concerns including warning signs of scams and the possible future of healthcare. They later answered the audience's questions.

Burton continued to talk to his constituents about his concerns with HR 3200, the healthcare bill that the Democrats have presented. He said that it would be cheaper for employers to drop their private insurance and go with the government plan.

"They will be encouraged to take their employees off of that private account and put them on the government account, which will be subsidized by the government," Burton said. "They would have to pay an 8 percent tax, which will be less than their current coverage. That's going to push people into the government plan and the plan will be controlled by a government regulator and that's something that we are concerned about."

He also said that the government could come between the patient and the doctor and that there could be rationing of care based upon life expectancy.