RELEASE: Moll Won't Take Congressional Health Care Until System is Fixed

This just in...

Zanesville, OH 2/27/07 - Jeanette Moll, conservative Republican candidate for Congress in Ohio's 18th congressional district, today expressed her stance that health care will be a top priority in Congress.

Moll, who has been traveling the district and meeting voters for over a year, believes health care is at the top of people's agenda - but she's does not believe government controlled universal health care is the answer people want.

"I believe health care solutions will stem from smart private-sector solutions including health savings accounts, plans that are portable between employers and further tort reform to minimize frivolous lawsuits," Moll said.

Moll went on to say that until the people of Eastern and Southeastern Ohio have the health care coverage they need, she'll forego congressional health care as an incentive to work hard on the problem.

Moll also pointed to existing bureaucracies as one reason she is resistant to government controlled universal health care.

"At the state level we have the BMV and at the federal level we have the IRS as perfect examples of slow moving, difficult-to-work-with, inefficient behemoth government entities, Moll said. "We simply can't stand in line and take a number when we need access to health care."

Campaign supporter and critical care Registered Nurse Barb Caffaratti applauded Moll's fight for efficiency.

"The percentage of time doctors and staff spend on health insurance and patient finances has grown enormously over the last two decades, and it's getting to the point where a practice has as many support personnel as there are medical professionals," Caffaratti said. "I wholeheartedly support Jeanette Moll's efforts to reform the system and bring increased efficiency - it will have a lasting positive affect on both patients and doctors."

Is this another Wulsin Maneuver where the candidate makes a pledge that doesn't matter because the candidate would be covered by the spouse? I suspect so... These sorts of pledges are useless unless the candidate is willing to forego health coverage at all...