This Coalition supports consumer-based, market-driven health care. We remember a time when doctors made house calls because they worked for patients, not the insurance companies. We believe making the doctors work for the politicians instead is making a serious problem far worse.

This Coalition opposes any nationalization of care or care standards, as well as the establishment of Washington-centered payment methods. Any of these policies would result in lower levels of health care quality in America. A Washington-centered payment system would lead to cost-saving measures such as rationing of routine services or the denial of life saving measures.

This Coalition supports honesty in the ongoing debate on socialized health care, which includes compelling the reformers to tell the truth about the costs -- that health care isn’t free, and so-called “free health care” from the government is the most expensive option.

Honesty in the health care debate also means recognizing that the beneficiaries of various proposals for big government health insurance will be certain corporations within the medical, insurance, and pharmaceutical industries, and others who would be able to shift costs to the taxpayer. The average consumer of health care will not benefit.

This Coalition believes that the health care system is damaged, and needs precise improvement at certain specific points. The evidence is compelling that the problems the politicians are promising to solve today were created by their policies, and that greater political control of our health care will make matters worse in the long term. We intend to offer solutions that will reduce the time doctors spend on paperwork, restore the doctor-patient relationship, as well as slash the cost of health delivery for both the consumer and the taxpayer.