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Originally Posted by EDnurse
Give me a good reason to vote for Republicans, especially Trent Franks(R) an incumbent in my congressional district from Arizona.
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Authored the Arizona Scholarship Tax Credit legislation, which was signed into law on April 7, 1997. Having survived opposition from the ACLU and the NEA, and having been upheld by both the Arizona and the United States Supreme Court, this legislation has funded over 200,000 scholarships for children throughout our state. Since the law’s inception, Arizona taxpayers have made more than 400,000 donations, contributing in excess of $240 million.
Introduced the Children’s Hope Act, legislation which builds on the success of the Arizona Scholarship Tax Credit. The Children’s Hope Act encourages states to enact their own state scholarship tax credit. If a state enacts a scholarship tax credit of $250 or more, based upon the minimal guidelines that are outlined in the text of the legislation, all residents of that state are eligible to take part in an additional federal tax credit.
Any good health care reform legislation must adhere to four basic principles:
• First, every American, regardless of health or financial status, should have access to affordable healthcare coverage of their choice, including those who have a medical condition that makes finding affordable healthcare coverage difficult.
• Second, healthcare should be family-focused and patient centered. It must put patients, in consultation with their doctors, in control of their healthcare; not the patient's employer, and certainly not government bureaucrats. Neither should certain treatments be denied because the government decides that a given treatment is not cost effective.
• Third, people should own and control their healthcare plan, and it should be personal and portable. Individuals should have the ability to change their plan if they find they don't like it, and keep it if it fits their needs at a price they are willing to pay.
• And fourth, Americans who are happy with their current plan should be allowed to keep it.
Has consistently opposed Democrat health care proposals in the 111th Congress that would wrest control of the American health care industry from the hands of private organizations and turn it over to the federal government. Most notably, Voted against H.R. 3962, a nearly 2,000 page bill that would cost $2.2 million
per word (at least $1.5 trillion, overall), would impose over $725 billion in new taxes, and would create, extend, or expand over 150 government programs and bureaucracies, in addition to its primary purpose of forcing all Americans to ultimately purchase their insurance through the government.
upported H.R. 3400, the
Empowering Patients First Act, a Republican health care proposal that would actually fix the health care system, without socializing it, and without leaving an unbearable financial burden on future generations. The
Empowering Patients First Act would reform health care in the following ways:
• Makes health care portable, by tying health insurance plans to the patient. Americans shouldn't be forced to choose between leaving a job and having health care.
• Ensures that those who need coverage the most are taken care of, guaranteeing coverage of pre-existing conditions by offering financial incentives for insurance companies who cover high-risk insurance pools.
• Incentivizes providers to work in Community Health Centers and emergency areas, thus providing more help to those who need it most, but can't afford it.
• Allows Americans to keep their current health care plan, if they are happy with it.
• Allows patients to purchase health care coverage across state lines, an injection of competition that would have a huge impact on health insurance prices. Consider auto insurance policies; it's now as simple as logging onto the internet and buying the cheapest policy you can find, and competition between auto insurance companies across the nation has made policy prices much cheaper. Because Americans can't buy across state lines, this isn't an option with health care.
• Ferrets out frivolous lawsuits, by putting a cap on non-economic damages that can be awarded in lawsuits, thus preventing lawyers from taking advantage of the system by pushing for multi-million dollar settlements for "emotional distress," etc... Because of this reform, doctors would pay less for insurance, and health care costs would go down across-the-board.
• Factors in prevention, not just treatment, by allowing employers to offer benefits for healthy lifestyles, thereby lessening the burden on health insurance companies, and further pushing down prices.
• Pays for itself, and is revenue-neutral.
• Lessens abuse of entitlement programs, by reforming the "safety net" to prevent abuse and unnecessary spending. States would have to cover 90% of those people below 200% of the federal poverty level before they could expand eligibility levels under Medicaid and SCHIP. And Medicaid and SCHIP beneficiaries would be given the option of a voucher to purchase private insurance.
• Only applies to legal, permanent residents of the United States.
He believes citizenship should be given only to those who treasure the United States and that means those who have upheld America law, and the United States Constitution. He does not support legislation that would grant citizenship or any other privilege to those who have broken the law ahead of those who are undergoing our established legal process. As America continues to face significant challenges in the area of immigration reform, He continues to advocate these policies while doing everything within my power, as a member of the House Armed Services and Judiciary Committees, to provide for the protection of the American people.
As a Member of the House Judiciary Committee as well as the Constitution Subcommittee, he remains absolutely committed to preserving our sacred Constitution and the inalienable rights it enumerates. In the spirit of our nation’s Founders, we must remember the self-evident truth that human beings do not have rights because of government, they have government because of their rights. America’s revolutionary experiment in liberty birthed a "shining city upon a hill," the freest, strongest, and wealthiest nation in the world, and as we continue to champion liberty, Congress must reaffirm the cornerstones of both national security and protecting the sanctity of all human life.
Trent Franks - Arizona 2nd District
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