Scott Jameson on Health Care Libertarian Challenger

Less federal funding for health coverage

A: No.

Supports universal mandatory health insurance

It doesn't seem like a classic libertarian position to require everybody to have to do something. But someone coming across a catastrophic financial loss-that hurts me as a member of the community.

Plus having everyone in a universal risk pool is going to lower the cost for everyone who already DOES have insurance. You're going to bring in millions of health people who are substantially less likely to make a claim.

Also it would allow us to cover people who are too risky to cover. We can bring in everybody with a universal mandatory healthcare system similar to what we have for liability insurance for automobiles.

How we're going to pay for this is slowly begin to roll back payroll taxes so individual people can make their own healthcare decisions.

Health care is not a federal responsibility

Indicate which principles you support regarding health care.
• Providing health care is not a responsibility of the federal government.
• Expand eligibility for tax-free medical savings accounts.
• Offer tax credits to individuals and small businesses to offset the cost of insurance coverage.
• Support stem cell research on existing lines of stem cells.