The Grand Rapids Press reports on a Ron Paul visit:

Former Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul has a frank prescription for the health care plan making its way through Congress: Scrap it.

“I think it’s monstrous,” Paul said.

“I don’t think it will improve medical care in this country. I think it’s very, very costly and we don’t have any money. And they don’t have any way of paying for it.”

Elsewhere, Congressman Paul has touted his own health care proposal:

Universal Healthcare never quite works out the way the people are led to believe before implementing it. Citizens in countries with nationalized healthcare never would have accepted this system had they known upfront about the rationing of care and the long lines.

As bureaucrats take over medicine, costs go up and quality goes down because doctors spend more and more of their time on paperwork and less time helping patients. As costs skyrocket, as they always do when inefficient bureaucrats take the reins, government will need to confiscate more and more money from an already foundering economy to somehow pay the bills. As we have seen many times, the more money and power that government has, the more power it will abuse. The frightening aspect of all this is that cutting costs, which they will inevitably do, could very well mean denying vital services. And since participation will be mandatory, no legal alternatives will be available.

The government will be paying the bills, forcing doctors and hospitals to dance more and more to the government’s tune. Having to subject our health to this bureaucratic insanity and mismanagement is possibly the biggest danger we face. The great irony is that in turning the good of healthcare into a right, your life and liberty are put in jeopardy.

Instead of further removing healthcare from the market, we should return to a true free market in healthcare, one that empowers individuals, not bureaucrats, with control of healthcare dollars. My bill HR 1495 the Comprehensive Healthcare Reform Act provides tax credits and medical savings accounts designed to do just that.

Congressman Paul also said he believes the Republican party needs to return to its core principles:

“They are going to have to earn that trust back. They should be more concerned about personal liberties. They shouldn’t be the great defenders of government secrecy and torture…”

“The young people aren’t supporting Republicans. The worst group for the Republicans is (age) 15 to 25. If they can’t appeal to that group, what kind of future is there for the party?”

The truth is the Republican party has no core principles.  Their “principles” are as transitory as the Democratic party’s.  The Republican party needs to be given the coup de grace and a new party without the Big government and special interest baggage formed.