State Legislators Say "No" to ObamaCare

WASHINGTON, DC, Jul 30 (MARKET WIRE) --
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has delivered a letter
to Congress on behalf of more than 1,800 state legislators opposing
federal reform efforts -- particularly, the Medicare-modeled "public
plan" and a national health insurance exchange -- which will trample
states' rights and lead Americans down the road to single-payer health
care. In addition, legislators from 41 states signed on individually to
emphasize their opposition.

The members of ALEC -- the nation's largest nonpartisan, individual
membership association of state legislators -- recently approved the
Resolution on Preserving States' Rights Regarding Federal Health
Insurance Exchanges and a Public Plan, which deems the federal public
plan anti-competitive and calls the proposed national health insurance
exchange a "federal takeover" of the states' role in regulating health
insurance.

"The government will never compete unless it can change the rules to win,"
says Iowa Representative Linda Upmeyer, minority whip, family nurse
practitioner, and chair of ALEC's Health and Human Services Task Force.
"It's an unlevel playing field when a public plan can shift costs to our
state's private insurers because of low doctor and hospital reimbursement
rates, and then raid the federal Treasury for unlimited subsidies," she
added.

In the ALEC letter to Congress, ALEC's lawmakers criticized the federal
push to shift health care decision-making to Washington. "We all share the
goal that patients deserve to choose their own quality, affordable,
private health coverage," the letter states. "But health reform shouldn't
just be the job of the federal government."

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is the nation's largest
nonpartisan, individual membership organization of state legislators.

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