Issue Position: Health Care Reform

Issue Position

Social Security and Medicare each took five years to kick in after they were made law. Today there are those who are howling with impatience after only a few months into our generation's heaviest lift -- that of reforming health care.

My opponent is one of those complaining, yet offering no alternatives or solutions. We currently spend 18% of GDP on health care costs while other developed countries spend 9%. --- this problem needed to be tackled and I'm eager to do all I can to help make the current law the best it can be. Sure there'll be problems. Let's fix them!

It is after all a bipartisan law, conceived by Republicans and finally implemented by Democrats twenty years later.

The stories of people benefiting from the new health care law are encouraging and growing in number every day. I would be honored to pitch in on the fine-tuning of this long-overdue legislation. For example, contracts between providers and insurance companies should be made public for true competition to occur and for health care costs to go down.

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