Issue Position: Accessible & Affordable Healthcare

Issue Position

Obamacare is more than a broken website. The website was just the tip of the iceberg and as the full implementation of Obamacare continues to roll out. Mike Bost believes that individuals, families and small businesses understand their health care needs better than government bureaucrats. We can agree with the provisions of allowing younger Americans to remain on their parent's insurance, banning insurance companies from denying pre-existing condition and removing lifetime caps however, it does not mean Obamacare is the right answer as it fails to address the affordability of quality health care.

There are several steps that we can take to lower costs and increase the number of insured without creating the government bureaucracy as Obamacare did. Mike supports allowing businesses and associations to pull together their health plans to obtain larger health care premium discounts from major health insurers, full federal income tax deductibility for co-payments, deductibles, out-of-pocket costs and premiums and encourage more, not less competition, in the Medicare system by expanding, not shrinking, the popular Medicare Advantage program. We need to support measures that reduce costs, which will ultimately affect the price of premiums and the number of people who can afford insurance.

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