Mike Beebe in Survey of Gubernatorial campaign websites, 2001-2009

On Education: Plan for ensuring teacher quality

Ensuring Teacher Quality
• Create options to ensure rural students have access to 21st century education.
• Create authorizing legislation or construct a regulation to encourage Traveling Teachers.
• Launch pilot program for comprehensive alternative pay option for Arkansas teachers.
• Attract and retain quality teachers by continually upgrading the existing teacher mentor model.
• Expand the existing teacher mentor model to provide more supports for new teachers.

On Health Care: 12-point plan for Affordability, Accessibility, Quality

[Affordability]
• Expand affordable health insurance options for small businesses
• Use reinsurance program to stabilize costs
• Make insurance more affordable using federal tax credits
• Promote the expansion of coverage for the uninsured by building on Medicaid
• Institute a health literacy campaign utilizing preventative care
  
  [Accessibility]
• Expand school health clinics
• Create incentives for primary care professionals to provide service in rural areas
• Attack the nursing shortage in Arkansas
• Promote telemedicine to improve access
  
  [Quality]
• Improve program integrity to ensure money is spent wisely
• Utilize home and community-based care for seniors as an option to nursing homes Source: 2006 Gubernatorial website, www.mikebeebe.com, “Issues” Nov 7, 2006

  On Immigration: Significantly increase border security

  Illegal immigration is compromising our national security, impacting our economy and is the single biggest source of illegal methamphetamines coming into America. We need to significantly increase border security and tighten enforcement of immigration laws, including tougher penalties for companies that knowingly hire undocumented workers.

  We need to make sure illegal immigrants learn English, pay any back taxes & a fine, before they can get in the back of the line to be considered for legal status.

  Source: 2006 Gubernatorial website, www.mikebeebe.com, “Issues” Nov 7, 2006

  On Social Security: No diverting social security dollars into private accounts

  Our Social Security program is not only our most successful domestic program. Do we need to strengthen social security? Absolutely. But, strengthening this vital program does not need to take the shape of diverting social security dollars into private accounts to fluctuate with the stock market. We can’t jeopardize the guarantee seniors depend on. We need to ensure that all workers have Social Security--this crucial, dependable, inflation-protected pension that has been guaranteed since 1935. Source: 2006 Gubernatorial website, www.mikebeebe.com, “Issues” Nov 7, 2006

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