Supports universal health care

Sowell supports the following principles regarding health care:
• Implement a universal health care program to guarantee coverage regardless of income.
• Support a Patient's Bill of Rights which includes appeal mechanisms and the right to sue.
• Support automatic enrollment of children in federal health care programs.
• Sowell says, "Universal health care will eliminate much of the US's medical problems. Doctors should be focused on the care of the people to be serviced, and not on profits. " Source: 2004 Congressional National Political Awareness Aug 16, 2004

  Limit med-mal damages; expand med savings accounts

  Sowell supports the following principles regarding healthcare:
  • Expand eligibility for tax-free medical savings accounts.
  • Establish limits on the amount of punitive damages awarded in medical malpractice lawsuits.
  • Offer tax credits to individuals and small businesses to offset the cost of insurance coverage.
  Source: 2004 Congressional National Political Awareness Aug 16, 2004

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