Issue Position: Health Care

Issue Position

Making health insurance affordable and accessible to the American people is of great importance. Skyrocketing insurance premiums and out of control lawsuits have diminished our nation's health care delivery systems for too long. We must work to lower patients' costs by lowering the insurance costs borne by hospitals and physicians and creating reasonable guidelines, not caps, on punitive damages. Health care dollars should be spent on patients in the hospital - not on lawyers in the courtroom.

Programs like Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) and Association Health Plans (AHPs) will help constituents be proactive and preventative with their health and make choices with their health care.

Medicare prescription drug benefit (or Medicare Part D) - There is a toll free number at your disposal 24-hours a day at 1-800-MEDICARE where you may access a live person to answer any questions concerning the new Medicare Part D prescription drug plan. You may also visit the Medicare website at www.medicare.gov.

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