Issue Position: Health Care

Issue Position

America is facing a crisis in healthcare. While advances in technology have brought us treatments undreamed of by our grandparents, the cost of providing care has increased significantly. Low income families find it hard to afford health insurance. People with preexisting conditions often can't get insurance at all, and even people with insurance can be financially ruined by catastrophic medical events. That's not acceptable, and reform is desperately needed. But we should not reform the system by simply putting the government in charge.

Medicare is, according to its Trustees, just eight years away from insolvency. We should not replicate that model for the entire American healthcare system. We must preserve the doctor-patient relationship and not insert a bureaucrat between them. Intelligent competition, innovation, and smart regulation hold the power to solve the problems that face our healthcare system.

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