Health Care Reform; A Tea Party Activist View

First, let me say that I am not a spokesman for the Tea Party Movement, but I am most definitely part of the Tea Party Grass Roots initiative, so I believe that I can frame a view from the Tea Party Perspective, and that is what I would like to do concerning the current health care bill and what Republican Congressional members should say when asked about the future of the current bill.

Over the last several days, I've seen multiple interviews on Fox News where a Democrat and Republican are asked their view as to if the current bill can be salvaged with Republican input. You know; "Can't we accomplish something to take to the American People if we just work together?"

For the Republican, I believe the answer should be easy; NO. Here are three simple talking points Republicans could use that I believe would embrace the Tea Party Movement View:

• Any Reform to our current system must embrace our free market system and ensure less government intervention.
• Any Reform to our current system must not create any new government agency, any new government jobs or incur cost.
• Any Reform to our current system must include tort reform.

As to the first point, reform that embraces our free market system would encourage competition between carriers beyond state borders, would enable groups of small business, or similar groups to band together to pool risk to bring down plan costs.

As to the second point, the Republican stance should be that legislation should not create more government bureaucracy, rather it should eliminate it.

The last point should speak for itself. Now if Democrats want to reach across the isle and take the steps listed above, we should talk, if not Republicans should listen to their Tea Party Roots and say.......... Let's talk again in November.