Dr. Marion D. Thorpe, Jr. Opposes Clinton-Hastings Health Care Debacle

Hillary Clinton and her National Campaign Co-Chair, Alcee Hastings, are off-track in their approach to Health Care Reform. The Clinton-Hastings duo wishes to create a 100% Government-based Health Care delivery system.

[USPRwire, Sat Jul 21 2007] Dr. Marion D. Thorpe, Jr., Congressional Candidate for Florida's 23rd District, warns Floridians and Americans that the proposed Health Care reforms suggested by Hillary Clinton and her national campaign co-chair, Alcee Hastings, will prove detrimental to Quality of Care and Health Care Accessibility throughout Florida and our Nation. Furthermore, the Clinton-Hastings approach will dramatically increase the costs associated with sound Health Care delivery and Patient treatment.

A key platform component for Dr. Marion D. Thorpe, Jr. during the 2008 election for Florida's 23rd U.S. Congressional District seat centers on the immediate need for effective and balanced Health Care reform. Dr. Thorpe states, "In order to successfully serve the Health Care needs of my fellow Floridians, proper Health Care reform must include a 'Healthy Dose' of open-market competition amongst private-sector Health Care providers intertwined with the continuance of such Government regulated 'safety-net' programs as Medicaid and such community-based programs as Healthy People 2010. Dr. Thorpe is firmly committed to the development of beneficial public-private partnerships that will improve the overall Quality of Care for Floridians, while simultaneously improving Access to Care and lowering Health Care costs for people in Florida's Congressional District 23.

In order to better explain his opposition to the Clinton-Hastings desire to eliminate all private-sector competition from the Health Care arena, Dr. Thorpe utilizes the following analogy comparing Quality Health Care to Automobile safety innovations: "Side-impact airbags, anti-lock brakes, and GPS directional units are all safety innovations that have directly resulted from free-market competition amongst the private-sector auto-makers. Plain and simple, rival competition for increased sales forces automobile manufacturers to embrace the 'latest-greatest' safety features for their product in a cost-effective manner. In an analogous comparison, the Clinton-Hastings approach would do away with such competition; thus, returning us to the dark-ages when cars were not equipped with lifesaving devices such as 'Onstar' and computer-assisted braking. In Health Care terms, their proposed elimination of rival competitors would lead to an immediate and lasting decline in Quality of Care, and a concomitant increase in costs."

Having served as an integral leader for Healthy People 2000, as Florida's Chief Medical Officer, and as Chairman of Florida's Medicaid Reform Advocates Coalition, Dr. Thorpe is eager to bring "A New Day, A New Way!" to the manner in which people access Quality Health Care in Congressional District 23. Armed with the knowledge gained from 25 years of community-based Health Care outreach, education, and service; coupled, with the attainment of his Doctor of Medicine degree and his Masters of Health Policy and Administration degree, Dr. Thorpe will breathe new life into the floundering Health Care landscape of Florida's 23rd Congressional District. "Health Care reform, by nature, should be a cooperative process, and not the exclusionary process called for by the Clinton-Hastings platform," states Dr. Thorpe. Dr. Marion D. Thorpe, Jr. pledges to remain firm in his inclusionary approach to sound Health Care reform on behalf of the people of Congressional District 23 (FL).