Issue Position: Healthcare

Issue Position

I believe that health care is a right, not a privilege. Every Hoosier needs and deserves access to affordable, quality health care. I support:

* Enacting a comprehensive statewide smoking ban
* Providing access and lower cost prescription drugs to all Hoosiers
* Creating a tax incentive for Indiana businesses that offer health care to all of their employees
* Creating a statewide network of electronic medical records for easy access in times of emergencies
* Promoting preventative, prenatal and child healthcare programs
* Lifting the cap to include more childless adults on the Healthy Indiana Plan (HIP), Indiana's health care for the uninsured.
* Expanding home health care options for the elderly and persons with disabilities
* Encouraging development of smaller, more home-like "green house" long term, skilled nursing care facilities for the elderly.

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