SPECIAL ALERT: Boehner Delivers Weekly Republican Address

October 31, 2009

Congressman John Boehner today delivered the Weekly Republican Address, where he discussed Republican health care solutions to lower health care costs, and make it easier to obtain quality, affordable coverage without imposing a massive burden on the American people. Audio of the address is available here; video of the address is available here

Boehner said:

“At the beginning of this year, I told President Obama and Speaker Nancy Pelosi that Republicans would be ready to work with them whenever possible to address the nation’s biggest challenges.  I also said that where there were differences, it was our obligation as a party to explain to the American people how we would do things better…

“We now have a choice: we can come together to implement smart, fiscally responsible reforms, or we can recklessly abandon it in favor of a partisan government takeover that creates far more problems than it solves.”

In his address, Boehner highlighted the following four smart, fiscally-responsible reforms to lower
costs and expand access:

1. Let families and businesses buy health insurance across state lines.

2. Allow individuals, small businesses, and trade associations to pool together and acquire health insurance at lower prices, the same way large corporations and labor unions do.

3. Give states the tools to create their own innovative reforms that lower health care costs.

4. End junk lawsuits that contribute to higher health care costs by increasing the number of tests and procedures that physicians sometimes order not because they think it’s good medicine, but because they are afraid of being sued.

To learn more about these and all the health care initiatives Republicans support, please visit healthcare.gop.gov