Issue Position: Health Care

Issue Position

-- The ever-increasing cost of health care and outrageous cost of prescription drugs must be addressed. Opening our health care system to competition, increasing consumer-based decision-making in the process and providing greater incentives for those who purchase long-term care insurance are a couple cost-friendly approaches with promise.

-- At a cost of over one trillion dollars, the new health care law is too costly. And contrary to what my opponent might say, it won't create sustainable jobs, because we don't have the money for it. My goal is to make Minnesota one of the ten lowest states in health spending per capita by 2015. We can do that by opening the insurance market to competition. Focusing on preventive care and rewarding healthy individuals.

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