2018 NV Governor's race: on Health Care


Adam Laxalt: ObamaCare is most flawed piece of legislation ever endured

Q: Support or Repeal ACA, aka ObamaCare? Accept Nevada's ACA's Medicaid expansion to subsidize low-income participants?

Adam Laxalt (R): Called ACA "the most flawed piece of major legislation America has ever endured." Will consider Medicaid work requirements. Wouldn't have expanded Medicaid but won't roll it back.

Steve Sisolak (D): Supports ACA and Medicaid expansion. Opposes Medicaid work requirements. "Need to do everything we can to make sure healthcare coverage is maintained."

Source: 2018 CampusElect.org Issue Guide on Nevada Governor race Oct 9, 2018

Steve Sisolak: Do everything we can to maintain healthcare coverage

Q: Support or Repeal ACA, aka ObamaCare? Accept Nevada's ACA's Medicaid expansion to subsidize low-income participants?

Adam Laxalt (R): Called ACA "the most flawed piece of major legislation America has ever endured." Will consider Medicaid work requirements. Wouldn't have expanded Medicaid but won't roll it back.

Steve Sisolak (D): Supports ACA and Medicaid expansion. Opposes Medicaid work requirements. "Need to do everything we can to make sure healthcare coverage is maintained."

Source: 2018 CampusElect.org Issue Guide on Nevada Governor race Oct 9, 2018

Jared Fisher: Free market achieves both affordable AND effective care

I am not a supporter of the ACA, because I don't want our state struggling with implementation because the government won't give us flexibility in the use of federal funding. The ACA sends us closer to a single-payer government healthcare system which is controlled by Washington.

The next Governor will be tasked with addressing healthcare long into the future. What do Nevadans really want from their healthcare: Affordable rates? Lower costs? Access? Quality healthcare? My gut tells me that people won't want to choose from that list of priorities; they'll want them all. As a free market, there is no reason this can't be accomplished. Making healthcare 'affordable' and 'effective' does not have to be mutually exclusive.

The ACA must be addressed. Whether it's as drastic as completely phasing it out, as the current administration wants to do, or finding a middle ground to fix the weak points, as Governor, I will make it one of my highest priorities.

Source: 2018 Nevada Governor campaign website FisherForNevada.com Mar 21, 2018

Adam Laxalt: Bash ObamaCare, but unclear on where healthcare is headed

The Affordable Care Act and Sandoval's expansion of Medicaid in Nevada could also be Laxalt targets. He has been anything but shy in bashing the ACA, and it's unclear what would happen to that funding if Laxalt were to win next year. "I'm going to wait and see what happens in Washington before we make any decisions about where we're heading with health care in Nevada," Laxalt told the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Source: Las Vegas Review-Journal on 2018 Nevada gubernatorial race Nov 1, 2017

Dan Schwartz: Healthcare should be an economic right for all citizens

Schwartz said he believes the U.S. is a wealthy enough country that everybody should have health care as an "economic right." He says the cost issue still needs to be worked out. He thinks a good first step managing the costs would be to break the health-care system into 2--one side that deals with minor issues and another that deals with critical care. He said he would support federal health-care money coming to Nevada in the form of a block grant, where the state could design its own system.
Source: Nevada Independent on 2018 Nevada Gubernatorial race Sep 6, 2017

Steve Sisolak: ObamaCare has helped those in need

The enactment of the ACA and Medicaid expansion reduced uncompensated care from 40 percent to 11 percent at University Medical Center. Sisolak said, "When you see (people) are going to lose their mom or son, you can't put a dollar value on that. I think we as a commission and decent human beings need to do everything we can to make sure health care coverage is maintained for everyone, especially our most vulnerable population."
Source: Las Vegas Sun on 2018 Nevada Gubernatorial race Jul 31, 2017

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Candidates and political leaders on Health Care:

Retired Senate as of Jan. 2015:
GA:Chambliss(R)
IA:Harkin(D)
MI:Levin(D)
MT:Baucus(D)
NE:Johanns(R)
OK:Coburn(R)
SD:Johnson(D)
WV:Rockefeller(D)

Resigned from 113th House:
AL-1:Jo Bonner(R)
FL-19:Trey Radel(R)
LA-5:Rod Alexander(R)
MA-5:Ed Markey(D)
MO-9:Jo Ann Emerson(R)
NC-12:Melvin Watt(D)
SC-1:Tim Scott(R) 		Retired House to run for Senate or Governor:
AR-4:Tom Cotton(R)
GA-1:Jack Kingston(R)
GA-10:Paul Broun(R)
GA-11:Phil Gingrey(R)
HI-1:Colleen Hanabusa(D)
IA-1:Bruce Braley(D)
LA-6:Bill Cassidy(R)
ME-2:Mike Michaud(D)
MI-14:Gary Peters(D)
MT-0:Steve Daines(R)
OK-5:James Lankford(R)
PA-13:Allyson Schwartz(D)
TX-36:Steve Stockman(R)
WV-2:Shelley Capito(R) 		Retired House as of Jan. 2015:
AL-6:Spencer Bachus(R)
AR-2:Tim Griffin(R)
CA-11:George Miller(D)
CA-25:Howard McKeon(R)
CA-33:Henry Waxman(D)
CA-45:John Campbell(R)
IA-3:Tom Latham(R)
MN-6:Michele Bachmann(R)
NC-6:Howard Coble(R)
NC-7:Mike McIntyre(D)
NJ-3:Jon Runyan(R)
NY-4:Carolyn McCarthy(D)
NY-21:Bill Owens(D)
PA-6:Jim Gerlach(R)
UT-4:Jim Matheson(D)
VA-8:Jim Moran(D)
VA-10:Frank Wolf(R)
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