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	Oppose Flawed Health Care Proposal

The Florida Chamber of Commerce continues to support reforming the health system, specifically efforts to control costs and improve quality, reforms of insurance markets, and the creation of a streamlined, simplified marketplace to purchase insurance.

However, the bill passed by the U.S. House fails a simple litmus test for health reform legislation: the proposal does not improve the current situation; in fact, it will largely make it worse.

Tax increases to pay for a public plan, employer mandates, and minimum coverage will do more than devastate the private insurance industry--they could bankrupt our economy.

This type of health reform would bankrupt our government and leave tens of millions of Americans without the health care they deserve. Tell your U.S. Senators from Florida to oppose the creation of a "public plan," burdensome employer mandates, and minimum coverage requirements.

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I strongly urge you to oppose any legislation that would enact a government-run, public health care plan. A public plan would be an unfair competitor, ultimately shifting costs to the private sector as it becomes big enough to drive down reimbursements to doctors and hospitals. Consumers would then flock to the public plan because its premiums would be cheaper, and ultimately no viable private plans would remain.

In fact, a recent study by The Lewin Group estimates 130 million people would move from private to public insurance if such legislation were enacted. This would be a disaster and devastate the employer-sponsored system.

Additionally, any mandate to employers that requires them to offer a one-size-fits-all minimum benefits package to all their employees is the wrong idea. The solution isn't to force people to buy into an unaffordable system; the solution is to improve the quality and affordability of health care through market-based changes. Employer mandates, by their nature, limit flexibility and innovation; the foundation of voluntary employer provided health care.

Instead, I encourage Congress to reform the insurance market and find ways to control costs. Without serious steps to decrease health care spending, any such plan will accelerate the day of a health care financial meltdown.

Please consider the impact that a public plan and new sweeping employer mandates would have on the private sector. This is not the way to overhaul the health care system. I strongly urge you to oppose any legislation that favors a government-run, public health care plan.

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