2020 IL Senate race: on Health Care

Mark Curran: Preventative medicine approach, with free market principles

A: We are blessed to live in a nation that has the best healthcare system in the world--bar none. When it comes to further improving that system, we have to be careful not to do things that run counter to free market principles. Having incentives to recruit and reward the very best and brightest heath care professionals is important. I am a believer in a preventative medicine approach that heads off costly and debilitating problems before they start. There is also incredible waste and fraud throughout the Medicaid, Medicare, and insurance networks that needs to be taken fare more seriously. I also believe that people should be able to purchase insurance policies across state lines . I take a different tack than some other conservatives do in that I believe that preserving Medicare and Medicaid-for those CITIZENS who truly need it-must be a high priority.

Richard Durbin: Defend & expand ObamaCare and Medicaid

Mark Curran: Study ACA to see what's working before deciding to repeal

The problem with the cost of prescription drug prices is that they reflect more than the cost to produce the pill. The drug maker needs to recover those costs and make a profit in order to have an incentive to continue to spend money on research and development. We may want to examine whether our drug companies are charging foreign countries enough.

Anne Stava-Murray: Supports Medicare-for-All, with immediate transition