Steve Welch on Health Care

Lunacy that consumers don't know real prices

Welch agreed with Scaringi's position to take government out of the picture, but added that health care reform was needed long before Obama took office. "Let's be honest with ourselves, health care was broken before ObamaCare and Republicans need to acknowledge that," Welch said. "ObamaCare broke it even further." He added that when compared to most economic models, the American health care system is inherently flawed. "Think about the lunacy of a marketplace where the consumer doesn't know what the real price is," Welch said.

Replace ObamaCare with tort reform & competition

1. Create a competitive marketplace where insurance companies and medical practitioners have to compete to win your business.
2. Introduce real tort reform, which will reduce the cost of defensive medicine, while at the same time reducing insurance costs paid by doctors and hospitals.
3. Give individuals and small businesses the same health insurance tax treatment that large corporations have.