Issue Position: Improving Our Health Care

Issue Position

Health care public policy must be framed in terms of improving people's health, not simply debating the costs of various insurance options. That is the fight I want to champion; encouraging and incentivizing a healthier nation. Until that occurs an aging population will place even greater strains upon the nation's health care systems; and consume a greater portion of the economy. At the same time, I recognize that health costs are excessive and would sponsor legislation to allow interstate shopping for health insurance, and provide tort reform to reduce costs to physicians who have to practice defensive medicine. I would also sponsor a panel of health care professionals to deal with fraud and abuse in Medicare and Medicaid and then work to actually implement their suggestions. I would support the idea of providing Medicare enrollees with vouchers and letting them choose a health plan of their choice. This may be the only way to protect seniors from health care rationing which will come from the health care legislation recently passed.

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