Issue Position: Health Care

Issue Position

Stephen Lynch believes that every American should have access to quality healthcare, regardless of their employment status or income level. However, he believes that the health care reform law passed earlier this year is critically flawed, in that it does very little to reform the current fee for service system. The new law preserves the federal antitrust exemption that enables insurance companies to operate as monopolies and cartels in restraint of trade, does not include a public option, and taxes health insurance benefits for the first time. Lynch remains committed to working with the President to fix and improve health care for all Americans. He supports removing the antitrust exemption, establishing state public options, and other initiatives and programs designed to increase patient access, provide affordable premiums and drug prices for patients, establish appropriate reimbursement rates for doctors, sustain our nations existing Community Health Centers, continue the mission of our Teaching Hospitals, and invest into Health IT and preventative care.

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