Issue Position: Health Care

Issue Position

Dr. Dan has spent nearly three decades treating patients and helping families in Northern Michigan. As a general surgeon who worked in both local hospitals and in a Veterans (VA) Hospital, he has real life experience seeing how our health care system works. That experience led him to understand that President Obama's health care law, the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" (PPACA), is not the solution and he remains concerned about the negative impact that this law is having on families, seniors, employers and their employees and local hospitals in Northern Michigan.

"The President made a lot of promises to us about Obamacare four years ago, but they haven't come true. Instead families are seeing increased costs, those that want to keep their current insurance were not allowed to, small businesses are struggling to provide quality benefits to their employees and hospitals are laying off staff. This law is bad medicine for America. This law is not affordable and is filled with all sorts of red tape and excessive rules and regulations. We need commonsense, patient-centered reforms - not Obamacare." -- Dr. Dan Benishek

Dr. Dan is committed to ensuring a strong doctor-patient relationship and lowering the overall cost of health care, while preserving quality. As a member of the GOP Doctors' Caucus, he has supported a series of bills that work to achieve these goals, while reducing the overall regulatory burdens on physicians and patients and increasing access to care.

Dr. Dan believes that kids should be able to stay on their parents' plans until age 26 and those with preexisting conditions should not be discriminated against. He continues to work with his colleagues in the House of Representatives to develop patient-centered health care reforms focused on quality, access, affordability, portability and choice.

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