2020 NM Senatorial race: on Health Care
Bob Walsh:
Eliminate Federal healthcare, including Medicare & Medicaid
Q: How would you promote healthcare coverage that is adequate, affordable and accessible for all?A: We should eliminate Federal meddling with healthcare, including termination of Medicare. Medicaid, the FDA and the CDC.
Libertarians favor a free market health care system. We recognize the freedom of individuals to determine the level of health insurance they want (if any), the level of health care they want, the care providers they want, the medicines and
treatments they will use and all other aspects of their medical care, including end-of-life decisions. People should be free to purchase health insurance across state lines.
Should backup be needed, that may be provided by voluntary associations of people with a sense of responsibility to their local communities.
Source: AFA iVoterGuide on 2020 New Mexico Senate race
Nov 3, 2020
Ben Ray Lujan:
Cancer diagnosis shouldn't lead to bankruptcy or home loss
Luj n touted his support in Congress for the Affordable Care Act that has expanded health insurance coverage in New Mexico and his track record in securing federal funding for defense installations and water infrastructure projects on the
Navajo Nation. "I was leading to protect people with preexisting conditions because a cancer diagnosis should not lead to bankruptcy or losing your home," he said.
Source: Franklin IN Daily Journal on 2020 New Mexico Senate debate
Oct 6, 2020
Mark Ronchetti:
Opposes government-run Medicare for All, socialist ideas
Mark opposes government-run Medicare for All. Socialist health care ideas do not work and do not represent New Mexico. Mark supports protecting coverage for those who have pre-existing conditions and making sure they have the care they need.
Increasing and improving access to healthcare is possible by supporting policies that lower costs while protecting quality and choice. Every American should be able to pick the healthcare plan that they want, not one the overnment picks for them.
Source: 2020 New Mexico Senate campaign website MarkRonchetti.com
Aug 30, 2020
Mark Ronchetti:
Against single payer, patients would lose their doctors
I completely oppose a single payer health care system. It would be disastrous. Medicare-for-All would drive up costs, and everyday New Mexicans would be forced to give up their employer-based insurance which they like.
Patients would lose their doctors and the ability to choose what insurance plan would best fit them.
Source: Albuquerque Journal on 2020 New Mexico Senate race
Aug 26, 2020
Ben Ray Lujan:
Supports $100 million to expand children's healthcare
Where you live shouldn't determine how well you live--especially not for our children. My Child Health Outreach and Mentorship Program Act helps states enroll more children in health care coverage by expanding the outreach and enrollment grant program.
Specifically, the bill authorizes $100 million in federal funding for CHIP outreach and enrollment grants dedicated to providing more children with health coverage.
Source: 2020 New Mexico Senate campaign website BenRayLujan .com
Jul 8, 2020
Ben Ray Lujan:
Increased funding for birth control and related services
The widespread use of contraceptives has been the driving force in reducing unintended pregnancies. Family planning has also improved maternal and child health and helps women participate fully and equally in society.
I am proud to have fought for the largest-ever funding increase to the Title X program--the only federal grant program dedicated solely to providing individuals with birth control and related preventive health services.
Source: 2020 New Mexico Senate campaign website BenRayLujan .com
Jul 8, 2020
Ben Ray Lujan:
Co-sponsor of Medicare for All
I voted in favor of the ACA and have fought hard to defend it from Republican repeal efforts. I will continue to fight to improve the ACA, to lower the cost of coverage, and to increase access to high-quality doctors. I am a co-sponsor of
Medicare for All--because Congress must send a strong statement to the health care industry that things need to change--now. I support giving Medicare the ability to negotiate lower drug prices.
Source: 2020 New Mexico Senate campaign website BenRayLujan .com
Jul 8, 2020
Gavin Clarkson:
Competition and choice are only options to lower costs
The reason healthcare is so expensive is because socialists have been trying to make it free for so long.
We no longer have a free market in health care. Competition and choice are the only policy options that will lower costs.
Source: Albuquerque Journal on 2020 New Mexico Senate race
Jun 14, 2020
Mark Ronchetti:
Absolute no to government single payer health care
I oppose a single payer government-run health care system. It would drive up costs, limit New Mexicans' ability to choose their doctor, and put an end to their employer-based
health insurance plans. The price tag of such policy is so high it would mean major tax increases on businesses and families.
Source: Albuquerque Journal on 2020 New Mexico Senate race
Jan 7, 2020
Maggie Toulouse Oliver:
Supports national health insurance plan and Medicare-for-All
The secretary of state said she would campaign on the creation of a national health insurance plan, colloquially known as "Medicare for all."
Toulouse Oliver also said she would support what she described as policy on the border that "treats people like humans."
Source: Santa Fe New Mexican on 2020 New Mexico Senate race
Apr 24, 2019
Gavin Clarkson:
No single-payer; repeal ObamaCare
Q: Do you favor or oppose a national single day payer health system? A: Oppose. Government interventions in healthcare have failed to arrest rapidly rising healthcare costs and have actually accelerated them.
Healthcare was already a government-dominated sector of the economy long before ObamaCare came along. Without free-market price signals, there is no way to use resources well or productively.
Q: What would you do to rein in health care costs?
A: I support the repeal of ObamaCare, medical liability reform, allowing insurance companies to sell policies across state lines, health savings accounts,
personal liberty and choice in the selection of insurance plans, and allowing young healthy individuals to purchase high-deductible catastrophic coverage.
Source: Ballotpedia.org Connection: 2020 New Mexico Senate race
Nov 1, 2018
Page last updated: Dec 27, 2020