Issue Position: Healthcare

Issue Position

Voted to repeal Obamacare's individual mandate, which forced a penalty on Americans who could not afford to pay for unaffordable Obamacare premiums. Voted to repeal and replace Obamacare (H.R. 1625) with a system that would expand access to high quality, affordable healthcare.Cosponsored and voted in support of legislation (H.R. 1101) to empower small businesses to band together and offer insurance through Association Health Plans to purchase high quality health care coverage at a lower cost for their employees.Consistent support for a fully-offset funding reauthorization of the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and Community Health Centers. Voted in support of the Right to Try Act (H.R. 5247), which would ensure terminally ill patients who have exhausted all approved-treatment options may work with their physicians to access investigational pharmaceutical treatments that have passed phase-one clinical safety trials at the FDA.Introduced bipartisan legislation to provide additional community-based resources to help combat the opioid epidemic (H.R. 5124).Introduced bipartisan legislation to address the physician shortage and improve pediatric care (H.R. 3888).

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