BY Administrator, ON NOVEMBER 09, 2009

Finding affordable health care is a real concern for families in Southern New Mexico. But a one-size-fits-all government-run health care system is not a solution. Steve Pearce’s agenda of reform starts with common sense changes that will lower costs and increase access. In Congress, Pearce fought for Health Savings Accounts, Association Health Plans, and helped pass the Medicare Prescription Drug benefit that lowered costs and saved money for millions of seniors.

Steve Will Work To Implement The Following Health Care Reform:

Preexisting Condition- People with preexisting conditions should be able to get coverage at reasonable prices.

Tort Reform

Health Savings Accounts- A medical IRA, that can be used for health care at any age, if you don’t use it, the savings build up and are yours to keep.

Portability- carry your policy with you from one job to the next

Competition across state lines- to get states to drop expensive mandates that cause the cost of insurance to be high

Steve's Thoughts On Pending Healthcare Legislation

Seniors are the big losers, the cuts to Medicare ($500 billion suggested cuts) will slash the care seniors get.

Veterans will lose in the plan.

Let's Clean Out the Obstacles To Job Creation

BY Steve Pearce, ON MARCH 16, 2010

New Mexico is constantly losing doctors.

The risk of frivolous lawsuits is driving many of them out of the state. Nationwide, doctors every year are declaring their retirement. A big factor in many retirements is the threat of frivolous lawsuits. Why does the Governor ignore this loss of business? Obviously Richardson understands that frivolous lawsuits kill jobs. He is willing for that to happen, just not with the Spaceport.

According to an AP article on March 15th:

"A bill signed Feb. 27 by Gov. Bill Richardson, is similar to laws approved earlier in Florida and Virginia. It protects New Mexico's spaceport and its operators from legal liability if there are injuries or deaths during a spaceflight catastrophe.

"Without the legislation, Landeene said New Mexico was at risk of watching business go elsewhere.

Under New Mexico's law, spacecraft operators still can be sued if a judge determines gross negligence or willful disregard for safety resulted in death or injuries."

Congressional Democrats Continue to Jam Thru the Healthcare Bill

BY Steve Pearce, ON MARCH 02, 2010

Meanwhile the American economy is damaged, unemployment is at 10%and the vast majority of Americans are worried about the future. CNN released a poll on the day of the Healthcare Summit saying 75% on Americans do not want Congress to pass the Healthcare Bill.

The deficit is skyrocketing; the Healthcare Bill will make it and our economy worse.

The Healthcare Bill should be shelved; the Congress should start removing the roadblocks to job creation and implement policies that foster an environment which will cause companies to start to resume hiring.We need jobs.

We should do more than freeze spending. It would be frozen at over a trillion dollar deficit each year. We should roll spending back, cutting the nonessential government services.

We should be creating policies which would attract manufacturers to come back to this country.

National Healthcare Nullified By Virginia Democrats

BY Steve Pearce, ON FEBRUARY 12, 2010

National Healthcare Train Derailed In Virginia Before It Even Leaves The Station

I heard an amazing comment recently. The Virginia Senate voted to pass a bill that said Virginia will not comply with any federal bill that requires the purchase of Health Insurance.

The amazing thing is that the Virginia Senate is controlled by Democrats

When so visible a slap in the face occurs to President Obama, not by Republicans, but by his own party, it helps us understand how badly Mr. Obama and the Congressional Democrats are out of touch.

I hear a lot about how Rep. Teague voted against Healthcare but it is instructive to repeat what he said about his vote.

The Las Cruces Sun News reported Teague said: "the concept of a public option could conceivably provide the competition needed to rein in costs, but he didn't believe this bill accomplished that goal." http://www.articlesbase.com/insurance-articles/teague-explains-why-he-voted-against-healthcare-reform-bill-1483598.html

Health Savings Accounts One Key To Lower Cost Health Insurance

BY Steve Pearce, ON FEBRUARY 08, 2010

Health And Medical Savings Accounts Help Lower Costs For Everyone

Young people are opting out of health insurance. That is one of the frequently mentioned problems in our health care system that experts discuss. Young people bring down the cost of insurance for the rest of the population because they do not use it as much as the older segments of the population. When they opt not to purchase policies, it drives up the price for the remaining pool of consumers; who, on average, use the insurance more.

One of the things we should be doing is encouraging younger buyers back into the insurance pool. The Healthcare bill threatens fines and jail time to do that. I prefer positive stimulation.

The Health Savings account is a medical IRA that was put into law during my time in Congress. It is a retirement account that is usable, tax free, at any age if used to pay for the insurance premium, deductibles, doctor visits or pharmacy costs. A portion of the amount unused in any year stays in the savings account. It rewards healthy lifestyles and informed health care consumption. As the IRA builds in value, the deductible can be increased which lowers the cost of the insurance.

Pelosi and Reid Plot Secret Plan for Obamacare

BY Steve Pearce, ON JANUARY 26, 2010

I wanted to share this article posted today on DickMorris.com. It is incredibly alarming that Democrat leaders are crafting a plan to subvert the legislative process. I agree with Dick Morris and Eileen McGann in that this plan can be stopped, but those who are opposed to the health care bill, must speak up.

Pelosi and Reid Plot Secret Plan for Obamacare

By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN

Published on DickMorris.com on January 25, 2010

Highly informed sources on Capitol Hill have revealed to me details of the Democratic plan to sneak Obamacare through Congress, despite collapsing public approval for healthcare "reform" and disintegrating congressional support in the wake of Republican Scott Brown's victory in Massachusetts.

President Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid all have agreed to the basic framework of the plan.

Their plan is clever but can be stopped if opponents of radical healthcare reform act quickly and focus on a core group of 23 Democratic Congressman. If just a few of these 23 Democrats are "flipped" and decide to oppose the bill, the whole Obama-Pelosi-Reid stratagem falls apart.

Here's what I learned top Democrats are planning to implement.

Senate Debate On Health Care

BY Steve Pearce, ON DECEMBER 10, 2009

Harry Reid And His History Lesson

The majority party doesn't like it when people tell them what they think. It seems they just want everyone to roll over and play dead and let them do whatever they want to do regardless of whether their constituents agree with them or not. I've found two very good examples of this over the last day and a half alone.

The first is a comment from Representative Pete Stark from California. Apparently some senior citizens voiced their skepticism about the Democrat's' budget math - to which Mr. Stark responded:

“I wouldn’t dignify you by peeing on your leg. It wouldn’t be worth wasting the urine.”

As distasteful as that is, it isn't an isolated case of poor verbal tactics. Below is a story from John Fund about how Harry Reid chose to frame the healthcare debate on the senate floor:

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Majority Leader Harry Reid tarred opponents of his health care bill yesterday as the equivalent of those who opposed equal rights for women and civil rights for blacks.

National Health Care Reform Will Ruin Healthcare System

BY Administrator, ON DECEMBER 01, 2009

Pay More And Wait Longer To See The Doctor With National Health Care

Universal coverage sounds good when you say it. "Everyone" having health care coverage makes a very good selling point. But nice sounding phrases are the only decent quality that can come from the concept of socialized medicine. Without fail, when you create systems that are all-inclusive all you end up including the very worst parts of what can go wrong with health care.

Liberal Healthcare Reform Principles Already Proven To Increase Costs And Waste Time

Socialist policies, such as Obama's health care "reform" will most certainly do two things. It will make costs skyrocket, and it will lower the quality of care you receive. When companies and providers do not have to fiercely compete to attract and keep customers to survive, they tend to not worry about the customer at all. If you think big hospital conglomerates only think about the bottom line now, just wait until they don't have to worry about people at all.

Interview With Steve Pearce On Health Care

BY Administrator, ON NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Local blogger Bill Haralson recently sat down with Steve Pearce for an interview.

So after months of speculation and constant wavering on the issue, Harry Teague did the politically-expedient thing and voted against the Democrat healthcare bill that passed by a narrow 220-215 margin on Saturday night. Teague is trying to spin his vote as a principled stand against his own party's leadership and against growing deficits and government spending. But we know better. And we must remind the voters around the district of the facts.