Survey of Gubernatorial campaign websites, 2010-2011: on Health Care

Henry McMaster: Challenge constitutionality of ObamaCare

• 2010: Led the federal ObamaCare lawsuit Led eighteen other states to challenge the unconstitutional "individual mandate" in the national health care law, an historic challenge that ended up allowing states the option to turn down the expansion of an already broken Medicaid system.
• 2009: Exposed ObamaCare's "Cornhusker Kickback" Led the successful challenge to the infamous "Cornhusker Kickback," rallying sixteen other states to join the fight.

Brian Sandoval: ObamaCare raises constitutional questions; lawsuit needed

The constitutional questions created by the health care bill are monumental in future matters involving states rights & other constitutional issues. I believe they warrant review by the courts, and Nevada should be a party to that action.

Dennis Daugaard: Federal takeover of healthcare is not the answer

John Hickenlooper: Current health costs restrain job growth & hurt families

Matt Mead: Legal challenge to federal health mandates

Wyoming should join with other states in the ongoing legal challenge against the recently passed federal health care law. In my view the law is unconstitutional and infringes on individual liberties. The law will kill jobs, distress small businesses, and hurt future growth.

Nikki Haley: Cap punitive damages to limit medical costs

Charlie Baker: Eliminate mandated benefits that are more than people need

To control health care costs, here is where I would start:
1. Demand transparency on price and performance. The lack of transparency in health care costs and quality contributes to the high costs of health care.
2. Reform Medicaid so that the state lives up to its promise to pay its fair share of expenses.
3. Eliminate costly mandated benefits and permit mandate-lite and mandate-free options. Mandating prescription drug coverage is the latest in a string of public-policy decisions that are making health care more expensive. Often, these benefits exceed what most members actually need. I support eliminating mandated benefits that are no longer effective.
4. Require one open enrollment period and give small businesses group buying rights.
5. Medical malpractice reform: The high premiums drive certain doctors out of practice and limits patients' access to this specialty care.
6. Increase the number of primary care physicians in Massachusetts

Dan Malloy: Supports small business Pooling Bill

Dan Malloy: Every Child Matters program: more children covered

I hold a fundamental belief that quality medical care shouldn't be a luxury affordable only to some. I propose a comprehensive plan to extend health insurance coverage to every child in the state. Today I am the only leader in the state to have implemented such a plan at any level.

Jill Stein: Single-payer Medicare-for-all system

There is a proven way to achieve all this while saving billions of dollars. It involves a Medicare-for-all system that pays for itself simply by cutting out the insurance company red tape. (It's sometimes called "single-payer," which means that all bills go to a single processing point--eliminating the costly and complex billing system required to submit claims to multiple private insurance providers, each following different rules).

Under single-payer, no one loses health insurance when they change jobs. And our health dollars are spent on better health care--not on insurance company red tape.

Kay Ivey: ObamaCare does much more harm than good

While providing affordable health care to every American is a noble, compassionate goal, President Obama's federally mandated plan will do much more harm than good. If it is passed, almost 120 million Americans could lose their private coverage. In the end, government bureaucrats would make your health care choices? Not your doctor, not you.

On top of that, taxes would have to be raised on almost all Americans to pay for these "free" services. And, if a serious budget crisis ever hit, the government could limit the amount of care and services you and your family would be able to receive.

Kay Ivey: Each state creates its own insurance pool for high risk

• Remove the tax penalty for families who choose to buy their own health insurance.
• Spend our federal health care dollars more responsibly, instead of spending $1.6 trillion on a plan financed by tax increases and savings from Medicare and Medicaid.
• Develop health insurance plans for each state, not for the whole country. Every state faces its own health care challenges; each state should be able to create its own insurance pool for high-cost individuals.
• We need more legal reform. We need tort-reform legislation that addresses the exorbitant cost of malpractice insurance for doctors due to the frivolous lawsuit abuse brought on by greedy trial lawyers.
• Create a new category of one-time insurance called "patient indemnity insurance" to purchase coverage for a botched surgery or other medical complication.
• Reform malpractice law by granting immunity to medical professionals who provide emergency or charity care

Gary Herbert: ObamaCare is federal government overreach