Chris Simcox speaks on Social Security, Health Care and Veterans Benefits

Chris Simcox, candidate for U.S. Senate, Arizona, speaks on Social Security, Health Care and Veterans Benefits

Interviewer: Now, what do you think about the proposal of Barack Obama about national health care?

Chris Simcox: It is just another opportunity for Obama to nationalize private industry in this country. Federal government has no business getting involved in health care beyond what they already have done and again, we’d go back to… just make Medicare and Medicaid work. Let’s make the state programs work. Let’s keep Obama out of it.

The private sector will deal with health care. Whatever we do, we keep the government out of it and we provide incentives for people to save for their own health care and their savings cannot be taxed and to provide perhaps incentives for business, which they already have as private enterprise. It’s their choice whether they want to provide health care to their employees or not.

Interviewer: What is, in your opinion, Barack Obama’s national health care plan?

Chris Simcox: The wrong idea. Obama or Congress has no business nationalizing again private industry. We need them out of it. We need them to focus on fixing Medicare and Medicaid and getting those bureaucracies cleaned up with waste, fraud and mismanagement. That’s where Obama should be focusing his attention right now. Let’s fix what we already have and the incentive will come from businesses and from the private sector or the Federal government saying, “We’re not going to tax your private health care savings plans.” I think that’s the best way to go.

But more than anything, we must stop nationalization of our free enterprise system in this country. It will kill the industry and it will ensure that we have less than the best health care that we can provide Americans and everyone in the world. We have the best system now. Nationalizing it will only make it worse.

A good health care system will include access by everyone to health care. We have that now; emergency rooms, you cannot be denied health care. So we have access for everyone. Affordability, the cost is something that the free market will bear, and the more people that get into health care, the more profitable it will be for businesses and thus that will drive down costs, okay? So we need incentives.

The quality also is what matters to most people and I’m very satisfied with the health care, the quality of health care that our doctors and nurses and professionals provide. By far, there’s no debate. We have the best quality health care that we provide to our citizens and also to others who are attracted to our shores to enjoy the benefits of that health care.

Nationalizing our health care system will ensure that the government controls competition, which will destroy the quality. It will destroy the affordability and it will destroy the free enterprise system of health care that we have in our nation.

Interviewer: The only real issue is the affordability issue.

Chris Simcox: Well, the affordability, in the sense that when the government nationalizes it and there’s only X amount of dollars going in to provide that, sooner or later in the fourth quarter of every budget cycle, the government is going to say, “Sorry, we’re out of money. If you need a heart transplant, we can’t afford it.” And so we get into rationing health care and perhaps discriminating against a 50-year-old man versus a 30-year-old man who may need a heart transplant. The 50-year-old just may already have been used up and just not considered a worthwhile investment for a government national health care program.

Interviewer: Okay, so let’s talk about Social Security and Medicare. We have an ageing population in the United States. How are we going to pay for Social Security in the future?

Chris Simcox: Well, first, I think we need to create a whole new paradigm. Let’s get the government out of it. Let’s get personal responsibility back into it. From the time you’re 16 and you take your first job, your first paycheck; you’re investing in your personal retirement plan that will reap benefits over the long term as we’ve all seen. What we have now is a Ponzi scheme where basically the government is taking money that’s supposed to be there to help our ageing population, but they’ve spent it on other programs.

This way we can ensure that those savings are there and will be directed for one thing and one thing only, that’s to take care of me when I retire, not the government. It’s about personal responsibility and it’s about planning your life from the first day that you start getting your paycheck. Instead of the government taking it out, let’s have private individuals invest in their own retirement savings accounts and I think they can manage their money much better than the Federal government has managed our Social Security System to this day.

Let me add on, though, where I think our government should be responsible for Social Security and health care and that would be with our veterans. Every veteran who has served this country should have lifetime health care and a lifetime Social Security guarantee. We’re shortchanging our veterans and they are the ones that are at the bottom of the barrel, so if we have Social Security or a national health care plan, yeah, let’s build that around those who served this country and preserved our freedom.

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