D.C. Bankrupting S.C.

Politicians are working to take control of your health care decisions. Government – the entity we should trust least to make decisions about our health – is prepared to completely take over the industry.

§  Are you prepared for waiting periods to see your doctor? Similar reforms in Massachusetts have caused patients to wait as long as 68 days for a visit to their family doctor.

§  The Senate health care bill could cost as much as $6 trillion over the first 10 years.

§  Want proof government won’t be able to trim costs on health care spending? Medicare – the government run health care – already has more than $89 trillion in unfunded liabilities.

§  The Government Accountability Office estimates there are $17 billion lost from improper Medicare payments each year. We can expect even more fraud, waste and abuse as government’s domain over health care grows.  

§  People survive cancer more often in a free market. For example, for prostate cancer the survival rate in the U.S. is 91 percent. In England, it’s 51.1 percent.

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