After repealing the damage that has been done with the Obama-Pelosi-Ellsworth health spending bill, we must seize the opportunity to ensure that constructive solutions to address the health care problems we face are the result of listening to the American people. Health care costs are out of control; we can make improvements without sacrificing personal freedoms and without tax increases and more deficit spending.


Read the Coats Hoosier Health Care Plan here (PDF)


Unfortunately, for over a year, Washington was focused on their health spending bill while Americans were focused on our real first priority: jobs.


None of us should have been surprised that Obama, Pelosi and Ellsworth wanted to take control of one-sixth of our country’s gross domestic product by putting their liberal agenda ahead of getting our economy back in shape.


We do have problems with health care in the country. Americans understand that. But they also understand that solutions proposed by Democrats in this monstrosity of a health care bill, the same solutions they’ve been trying to push on us for decades, were not the right ones for us.


We need to start over on health care. From scratch, from the beginning. Sit down and work on this incrementally, piece by piece, do what we can afford when we can afford it. We must avoid creating a government run health care – take a number and wait – system.


Press Releases on Health Care:
Cong. Ellsworth Should Listen to Overwhelming Majority of Hoosiers; Oppose Individual Mandates in Health Spending Bill (6/16/10)

Coats Releases Hoosier Health Care Plan (4/8/10)

Cong. Ellsworth Supports Massive, Radical, Expensive Fed Power Grab (3/22/10)

Voting ‘Yes’ on Obamacare an Enormous Error (3/19/10)

Obamacare Bill is a Jobs Killer (3/19/10)

Ellsworth Rubberstamps Liberal Power Grab (3/18/10)

Coats Asks Ellsworth: Why Are You Waiting? (3/17/10)