Sen. Gregg on Health Care

While touring Fisher Thermal Scientific yesterday, Senator Judd Gregg was talking about health care.

“The key for us as a country is to try and figure out our way through health-care reform,” Gregg said.

The approach to doing that is three-pronged, he added.

Making sure everyone has adequate coverage, encouraging people to live healthy lifestyles and encourage prevention, along with encouraging providers to provide quality and more affordable prices through incentives, are the three main facets of figuring out the dilemma, said Gregg.

“We need to give companies like Thermo Fisher more opportunities to be creative and encourage their employees to pursue a healthy lifestyle.”

Sen. Gregg is retiring and I would like to hear him talk about the fact that health care is a privilege, not a right. Much of the talk inside the beltway right revolves around some sort of government mandate forcing individuals to purchase coverage that they may not want or need. Not to mention the fact that forcing employers through “incentives’ will almost certainly result in lay offs and cost cutting. This is dangerous talk from a government that is already over stepping its bounds.