Issue Position: On Health Care

Issue Position

American health care is on life-support and needs a radical new treatment. We all want affordable, quality health care that travels with us, and I believe the answer lies in the free market. In every other industry, the free market has proven its ability to produce the highest quality and lowest cost. So, why not for health care?

Advocates of big government controls on health care believe that only they are smart enough to decide what is necessary for our well-being. I disagree. Health care is very personal - one size does not fit all. This Congress, led by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, has a prescription for universal health care that ignores the individual in favor of a sweeping approach to managing your health.

I support a health care system that accomplishes the following:

-Provides transparency and clarity about affordable health care choices, empowering patients to address their own specific needs;
-Provides prescription drugs for senior citizens at an affordable cost;
-Emphasizes the critical components of personal responsibility and effective preventive medicine;
-Encourages free-market principles to reduce waste and increase efficiencies for employers as well as patients; and
-Puts an end to the most inflationary practice in medicine: frivolous lawsuits.

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