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January 14, 2010
Lamontagne Supports Repeal of Federal Healthcare Takeover
Pledges as Senator to Fight for Real Reforms that Lower Healthcare Costs Without Growing
Government
(Manchester, NH) – Ovide Lamontagne, candidate for U.S. Senate, issued the following statement today:
"Today I have signed a Club for Growth pledge indicating that if elected Senator, I will sponsor and
support legislation to repeal any federal healthcare takeover passed in 2010. In doing so, I am
pleased to be the first candidate in New Hampshire to have signed the pledge. I look forward to
debating Pelosi‐Reid plan supporter Paul Hodes in November, and when I am elected, to joining other
national leaders such as Senator Jim DeMint, who have also taken this pledge.”
Lamontagne continued by saying: “My promise to the people of New Hampshire is this: While fighting
against a ‘one size fits all’ government takeover of healthcare that will result in rationed healthcare,
onerous government mandates and massive new government spending and bureaucracy, I will fight for
real healthcare reforms such as permitting small businesses to pool resources to purchase health
insurance competitively; increasing competition by allowing health insurance to be sold across state
lines, and; recognizing under the principles of federalism that tort reform should be left to the individual
states, creating strong incentives for states to institute meaningful tort reform to eliminate junk
lawsuits, which will reduce medical malpractice insurance rates, and lessen the costly practice of
defensive medicine. No ‘Cornhusker Kickbacks’ and no ‘Louisiana Purchases’ – ever ‐ but an honest and
transparent debate on these, and other common sense, market based healthcare reforms that must be
fought for.”
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