By Georgia Senator Judson Hill
Once again, Jay Bookman skews the facts of legislation to suit his own liberal tendencies (editorial on Sept. 11 –“GOP once embraced what it now condemns”). My proposed Constitutional Amendment does not prevent Georgians from having health care choices. The Constitutional Amendment will preserve and protect the rights of individuals to make their own health care and health insurance choices, whatever their choice may be. This is needed because threats of single–payer health care or an individual/employer mandate are not unique to Washington, DC. Fourteen states have introduced legislation calling for single-payer or a form of government payer health care. The Health Care Freedom of Choice Constitutional Amendment ensures this will never be the case in Georgia.
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