Leadership and Crisis, by Gov. Bobby Jindal: on Health Care

Bobby Jindal: Healthcare is a right; but instrument is the marketplace

I believe healthcare is a right. The issue is not whether or not to expand and improve healthcare--but whether the instrument of reform will be the government or the private sector. In my view, the government's role should be ensuring a robust marketplace that is competitive (so consumers have choice), transparent (so consumers can make informed decisions), accountable (so resources are leveraged to reward good clinical outcomes rather than simply paying for the process of care), effective (by engaging consumers in making good health choices for themselves and their families), and accessible (so healthcare is affordable).

Bobby Jindal: Market-based alternatives to top-down ObamaCare

There is an alternative to the trillion-dollar, top-down, government-driven policies of ObamaCare. Here's a list of market-based reforms that will reduce cost, increase access, & empower consumers:
• Fix the Risk Pools: The government keeps creating programs that take healthy people out of the insurance pools; older & sicker people keep their private coverage. Called the "death spiral," this trend is a major reason for the rise in premiums.
• Allow people to "own" insurance policies that stay with them when they cross state lines or change jobs
• Allow the creation of Voluntary Purchasing Pools
• End the Lawsuit Culture
• Cover pre-existing conditions
• Increase transparency: provider quality and cost should be made available via continually- updated websites
• Reform the payment system
• Expand deployment of health information technology
• Expand tax-free health savings accounts
• Reward healthy lifestyle choices
• Expand private coverage
• Prepare for the aging of America

Bobby Jindal: Euthanasia cheapens life just like abortion & infanticide

If human beings have no inherent value, their value comes solely from being useful. Not useful? Then not much of a reason to live.

I'm not suggesting everyone who disagrees with me on the issue of euthanasia takes these views. But if you believe human beings are essentially indistinguishable from animals, you run the risk of viewing life and death issues differently from those who believe there is something profound that separates us from the animal kingdom.

Those who promote the concept that some human life is more valuable than any other life, and therefore advocate abortion, infanticide, and euthanasia, cheapen human life and lay the groundwork for all sorts of destructive behavior. What we need is a culture of life that values human beings as unique creatures who were made by our Creator.