2000 National Political Awareness Test: on Health Care

Dan Mongiardo: Ensure access to basic health care

Principles which Mongiardo supports regarding health care:
• Provide tax incentives to small businesses that provide health care to their employees.
• Ensure that citizens have access to basic health care through managed care, insurance reforms, or state funded care where necessary.
• Support a patient’s right to sue his or her HMO.
• Support a patient’s right to appeal to an administrative board of specialists when services are denied.

Corey Stapleton: Government not responsible for medical care

Stapleton indicates support for the following principles regarding health issues.
• Provide tax incentives to small businesses that provide health care to their employees.
• Support a patient's right to appeal to an administrative board of specialists when services are denied.
• Guaranteed medical care to all citizens is not a responsibility of state government.

Mike Bishop: Guaranteed medical care is not a government responsibility

Bishop indicates support of the following principles regarding health issues.
• Transfer more existing Medicaid recipients into managed care programs.
• Support a patient's right to sue his or her HMO.
• Support a patient's right to appeal to a board of specialists when services are denied.
• Guaranteed medical care to all citizens is not a responsibility of state government.
• Allow health care providers and health care facilities to refuse services to which they morally object.

Mike Bost: Guaranteed medical care is not a government responsibility

Bost indicates support of the following principles regarding health issues.
• Provide tax incentives to small businesses that provide health care to their employees.
• Transfer more existing Medicaid recipients into managed care programs.
• Use state funds to continue some Medicaid coverage for legal immigrants.
• Limit the amount of damages that can be awarded in medical malpractice lawsuits.
• Support a patient's right to appeal to an administrative board of specialists when services are denied.
• Guaranteed medical care to all citizens is not a responsibility of state government.
• Expand the state's Circuit Breaker program which provides prescription drug coverage to low-income seniors.

Scott Howell: Patient's Bill of Rights; Medicare opt-in at age 55

Howell indicated support of the following principles on health issues.
• Support a Patient's Bill of Rights to define and enforce the rights of insured patients, including greater access to specialists and emergency rooms, wider choice of health care providers, and appeal mechanisms when claims are denied.
• Support a Patient's Bill of Rights which includes the right to appeal to an administrative board of specialists when services are denied.
• Provide tax incentives to small businesses that provide health care to their employees.
• Expand eligibility for tax-free medical savings accounts, which would be taxed if used for purposes other than medical costs.
• Provide citizens age 55-65 the option of purchasing Medicare health coverage.
• Support legislation to provide prescription drug coverage under Medicare.
• Increase funding for AIDS programs.

Howard Mills: Ensure access to basic health care

Mills supports the following principles regarding healthcare:
• Provide tax incentives to small businesses that provide health care to their employees.
• Ensure that citizens have access to basic health care through managed care, insurance reforms, or state funded care where necessary.
• Support a patient’s right to sue his or her HMO.
• Support a patient’s right to appeal to an administrative board of specialists when services are denied.

Harry Browne: Get government out of health care & costs will plummet

Howard Phillips: Federal govt out of health care

Phillips supports the following principles regarding health care:
• Providing health care is not a responsibility of the federal government.
• Does not support increasing taxes on alcohol and cigarettes to help defer costs of Medicare and Medicaid.

John Hagelin: More prevention, more patient rights, less malpractice

Hagelin supports the following statements regarding health care:
• Support health care strategies focused on prevention, including health education, and natural medicines and remedies
• Support a Patient’s Bill of Rights to define and enforce the rights of insured patients, including greater access to specialists and emergency rooms, and wider choice of health care providers
• Support a Patient’s Bill of Rights which includes the right to sue when claims are denied
• Allow small business owners & the self-employed to have the same deductibility for health costs as large employers
• Expand eligibility for tax-free medical savings accounts
• Establish limits on the amount of damages awarded in medical malpractice lawsuits
• Provide citizens age 55-65 the option of purchasing Medicare health coverage
• Support increasing taxes on alcohol and cigarettes to help defer costs of Medicare and Medicaid.

John Hagelin: Cut costs via prevention; allow more Medicare choice

Steve Forbes: Give small-business employees same options as others

Forbes supports the following principles regarding health care:
• Support health care strategies focused on prevention
• Allow small business owners & employees and the self-employed to have the same deductibility for health costs as corporations and large employers
• Expand eligibility for tax-free medical savings accounts
• Forbes says, “Allow all Medicare beneficiares freedom to choose from a wide variety of private health plans, just like federal goverment employees can do.” Source: 2000 National Political Awareness Test Jan 13, 2000

  The above quotations are from Election 2000 National Political Awareness Test, by Project Vote Smart. Click here for definitions & background information on Health Care. Click here for other issues (main summary page). Click here for more quotes by Harry Browne on Health Care. Click here for more quotes by John McCain on Health Care.
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