Issue Position: Health Care

Issue Position

As a surgeon who treated patients for nearly 30 years, Dr. Benishek knows a thing or two about health care. He recognizes the fact that a one-size-fits-all federal solution cannot accommodate the unique and diverse health care challenges facing Northern Michigan.

Dr. Benishek does not support President Obama's new health care law. He believes its bad medicine for America and will lead to diminished care in Northern Michigan and will erode the doctor-patient relationship. It puts Washington bureaucrats between patients and doctors. The law also raises health care costs at a time when America's families can least afford it.

Dr. Benishek is also very concerned because President Obama cut over $700 billion from Medicare to pay for his new health care law. Many of Northern Michigan's small local hospitals will be facing millions of dollars in cuts over the next decade. Dr. Benishek wants to ensure that our local hospitals stay open and our citizens have access to local medical care.

Dr. Benishek knows we have to lower the cost of health care in this country. But that can be done without putting Washington in charge. First, Dr. Dan believes health insurance should be portable and stick with you regardless of where you work or who pays for it. Next, we would permit the purchasing of insurance across state lines. Families and employers would benefit from a truly competitive marketplace where companies would lower their prices and improve coverage options to attract new policyholders. Dr. Dan also wants to see meaningful lawsuit reform would allow doctors to responsibly practice medicine without the fear of unreasonable litigation. That would lower the costs of health care because frivolous lawsuits increase health care costs for everyone.

‪All of this can be achieved without a 2,700 page bill that forces you to buy insurance that Washington says you must. Health care decisions ought to be made by patients, families and doctors. Dr. Benishek is committed to finding positive solutions that solve the challenges in our health care system while putting patients in charge.

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