Issue Position: Health Care
Issue Position
The rising cost of health care has caused millions of Americans to choose between basic needs and insurance. This can be credited to many things including the costly implementation of Obamacare, excessive governmental regulation, irrelevant malpractice lawsuits and a lack of affordable insurance options.
I believe the President's massive health care law, commonly known as Obamacare, is making things worse by raising health costs and making it harder for small businesses to hire workers. While we can all agree that our health care system needs reform, I believe that the expansion of government control over health care is the wrong approach to take. ObamaCare will cost hundreds of billions that our country can't afford for a health system that Americans don't want.
Repealing this bill means preventing more than $770 billion in tax hikes and eliminating all the mandates and penalties so that small businesses can grow and hire new workers, reducing spending by $540 billion, and paving the way for better solutions that will lower costs without destroying jobs or bankrupting our government
I believe America's health care system should promote patients' choice among physicians and pharmacists as well as drugs and services over the government's choice. Too often our health care needs are determined by a complete stranger who is more concerned with a bottom line than our best interests.
To lower the cost of health care, Congress should immediately implement tort reforms that will eliminate the frivolous lawsuits that have forced countless medical professionals out of the field and escalated medical costs for all hard-working Americans. Having served as a judge in Central Texas for more than twenty years, I am well aware of the problems that have stemmed from placing the interests of trial lawyers above the interests of patients.
I also believe we should improve incentives for students and doctors, which will help growing areas facing serious shortages of health professionals. These incentives will help to ensure a stable workforce of heath care providers in these areas. Finally, we must work towards improving the Medicare and TRICARE doctor reimbursement rates to ensure our seniors and military families are able to receive the medical resources they need and deserve.
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