Issue Position: Health Care

Issue Position

Reforming health care

Health care reform must focus on access to services and a reduction of costs. I support the Affordable Care Act, but understand that it is not perfect. I also support the principle of individual responsibility and the conservative idea of the individual mandate. On average, 1 in 5 dollars every Mainer makes is spent on health care - that is too much. Solutions must be found to fix this failing system in order to keep it from breaking completely and leaving Americans unable to afford the health services they need. As a country, we must reduce the cost of healthcare in part by moving toward outcome-based models of compensation, rather than fee-for-service. Further, there needs to be a much greater focus on primary and preventative care.

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