Issue Position: Health Issues

Issue Position

Values

- Consistently supports repealing and replacing Obamacare to end, in my opinion, a massive government takeover of the health care industry.
- Supports fairness for all Americans when it comes to their personal health care. Opposes the waivers and delays that have been provided to businesses and special interests from the requirements of Obamacare when regular Americans get no such relief. Opposes the federal government meddling with the doctor-patient relationship by mandating what medical services will and will not be covered for senior citizens through Obamacare's Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB).
- Believes in health care coverage for people with pre-existing conditions.
- Believes in protecting and promoting access to health care for rural Americans.
- Believes in a long-term solution for the sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula. The SGR formula was established to limit the increase in spending for doctors' services that the Medicare fee schedule alone would not cover. The intent of the SGR system was to be a restraint on total spending for Medicare. However, having never been implemented, the system is not effective as evidenced by Congress's innumerous short-term "fixes" to the SGR formula.

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