2020 NH Senatorial race: on Health Care
Don Bolduc:
COVID: Against mask mandate; they collect bacteria
Q: Would you be in favor of a mask wearing mandate?Bolduc: A mask mandate? No, I would not. I am unapologetically of the opinion that the masks cause more problems than they solve.
Q: How so?
Bolduc: I believe that they collect bacteria.
I believe that that they get dirty. I believe that people use the same mask over and over and over again. And they don't change it. They don't change it out. We've had a huge littering problem with masks and rubber gloves, and that's creating a problem.
Source: NHPR The Exchange on 2020 New Hampshire Senate race
Nov 9, 2020
Don Bolduc:
Keep some of ObamaCare but get the government out of it
The Affordable Care Act has some things in it that we need to keep. First of all, prenatal to postnatal care, pre-existing injuries, are hugely important. If you're going to change health care, you need to change the whole idea and paradigm.
We owe people a health care system that's not going to bankrupt them. I think that problem is because the government controls too much of it and we need to get the government out of it, deregulate it, privatize it, make it more competitive.
Source: NHPR The Exchange on 2020 New Hampshire Senate race
Nov 9, 2020
Don Bolduc:
Go from disease management to health management
I think if we if we stop allowing pharmaceuticals to control our political system that's going to go a long way. We need to go from disease management to health management, and we need to reward good health all the way through.
And if we do that, a pill for every ill, and we manage your health, we're going to have a much healthier society and we're going to have much lower cost.
Source: NHPR The Exchange on 2020 New Hampshire Senate race
Nov 9, 2020
Don Bolduc:
We need to put an emphasis on dental care & oral health
The other thing that we're not making premium in our health care is dental care, gum disease, oral health. It is so important. It reduces heart disease, diabetes, osteoporosis, rheumatoid arthritis,
heart attack, stroke. And we need to put an emphasis on that. Among our veterans dental care is is a huge problem, right? And in our society.
Source: NHPR The Exchange on 2020 New Hampshire Senate race
Nov 9, 2020
Corky Messner:
COVID: Supports wearing a mask, against mandatory mask order
You know, it's interesting about masks. In my reading about the H1N1 pandemic in 2010, I found part of a paper that was talking about masks,
and it was the same debate that's going on now. And so, yes, I support wearing a mask. No, I don't support a mandatory mask order.
Source: National Public Radio on 2020 New Hampshire Senate race
Jul 9, 2020
Corky Messner:
We need tort reform, allow market forces to work
We need tort reform in health care. Frivolous lawsuits add a tremendous amount of money to our health care system, and that will help bring down the costs, if we have tort reform. I think the thing we ought to keep in place is allowing people,
children to stay on their health insurance until the age of 26. I think that's a good thing. But it's very important to get the cost of health care down, that we allow more market forces to work here, including transparency.
Source: National Public Radio on 2020 New Hampshire Senate race
Jul 9, 2020
Don Bolduc:
COVID: Claims Bill Gates wans microchips in vaccine
In a You Tube video, Bolduc made reference to a supposed plan to implant some sort of tracking microchips into people. "The only bracelets anyone is going to put on me are handcuffs, because I'm fighting for my individual rights, my constitutional
rights. And the only chip that's going in me is a Dorito," Bolduc said. When asked about the microchip statement, Bolduc said Bill Gates, retired founder of MicroSoft, wants to implant people with tracking microchips.
Source: Manchester Ink Link on 2020 New Hampshire Senate race
Jun 17, 2020
Corky Messner:
Reduce regulations, provide waivers for Medicare, Medicaid
Continue to reduce regulations and provide waivers in
Medicare and Medicaid, to help our seniors and individuals with disabilities.
Source: 2020 New Hampshire Senate website CorkyForSenate.com
Jun 3, 2020
Bill O`Brien:
ACA like Fugitive Slave Act: destructive of liberty
Former New Hampshire House Speaker O'Brien once compared the ACA to the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act in 2013, arguing it was equally destructive to individual liberty.
More recently, he has pointed to spiking premiums for those on the individual markets--the pools set up under the ACA for those without access to employer-provided insurance.
Source: The Concord Monitor on 2020 New Hampshire Senate race
Feb 20, 2020
Don Bolduc:
Replace ACA with free market principle
Since the passage of the Affordable Care Act, many Republicans have campaigned on the message of "repeal and replace." Unfortunately, we have failed to create a common-sense plan to replace the ACA.
Why should the free market principle be absent in health care? It shouldn't. If providers want to attract business, that should be done by offering a better product and an affordable cost structure.
Source: 2020 New Hampshire Senate campaign website DonBolduc.com
Feb 10, 2020
Don Bolduc:
ObamaCare is going to collapse under its own weight
On policy, Bolduc predicted that "ObamaCare is going to collapse under its own weight."
And he argued that "we need to get new people" in Congress "to support the president on his initiative to improve health care for all Americans."
Source: Portsmouth Herald on 2020 New Hampshire Senate race
Jun 24, 2019
Andy Martin:
ObamaCare blew up in Democrats' faces
I am nobody special in my book, but I have had access to really world class health care. The Democrats tried to go it alone, and ObamaCare blew up in their faces. Republicans need to sit down with
Democrats and work together to preserve what is great about our system and enhance access where it is needed, while protecting the doctor/patient relationship. Not an easy assignment, but an essential one.
Source: WMUR.com on 2020 New Hampshire Senate race
Nov 1, 2018
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