Issue Position: Health Care

Issue Position

Endorses health care solutions that promote healthy living and favor patients, nurses and doctors over bureaucracy, insurance companies, and Big Pharma.
Enacted legislation to provide insurance reform and consumer choice.
Supports portability of insurance coverage, tort reform, voluntary alliances to allow small businesses purchasing power, and tax changes to encourage coverage.
Supports the "critical care" designation for our local hospitals.
Favors providing affordable long-term care for our seniors, with more choices for residential care, whether at home or in boarding homes or nursing facilities.
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"My wife is a home health therapist, and I hear every day about how the system is working and not working for people struggling with diseases and chronic conditions. The primary problem with our health care system is financial -- how to pay for it? We must seek to solve the problem without sacrificing quality, consumer choice or the relationship between patient and doctor. And we must fight to keep services in rural Maine."

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