I pledge to develop coalitions to repeal the recently passed healthcare legislation. I will support legislation that does not fund the current healthcare law. We need to fix our healthcare system, but we need to start over with open dialogue which includes insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, doctors and lawyers for tort reform.

We do not need our healthcare taken over by government bureaucrats. We need to get serious on how we are going to fix Medicare. We cannot keep passing off the responsibilities to commissions or future generations. The healthcare bill promised cost cutting, but it will actually cost tax payers more before anyone sees any benefits. The hiring of 16,000 additional IRS agents to police this new mandate will add a nearly $5 billion burden to the nation’s taxpayers.

Lawmakers will propose a $20 billion fee on medical device manufactures – those who produce everything from tongue depressors to artificial hearts. The additional tax will slow innovation and increase the cost to the end user: the tax payer.

The bottom line: we need a government that works with us and for us, not the other way around and I promise to be a catalyst for a real transformation in this area.