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Duncan Hunter on Health Care
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"One thing you can't do right now, if you're an American who has a health insurance plan is you can't buy health insurance across state lines. Now, we've seen studies that have shown that the same coverage that costs 750 bucks a month in Massachusetts, you can buy in Missouri for 170 bucks a month. But you can't buy your health insurance across state lines like Americans buy lots of stuff across state lines. This would bring more choice, more competition, lets let some people do that. Let's put some freedom into this operation, rather than Government run health care."
"If we go to socialized health care you're going to have a lot of $500 wrist braces and a lot of low end medical procedures where they really count."
Voted YES on subsidizing private insurance for Medicare Rx drug coverage. HR 4680, the Medicare Rx 2000 Act, would institute a new program to provide voluntary prescription drug coverage for Medicare beneficiaries through subsidies to private plans. The program would cost an estimated $40 billion over five years and would go into effect in fiscal 2003.
Bill sponsored by Thomas, R-CA; Bill HR 4680 ; vote number 2000-357 on Jun 28, 2000
"I don't like the idea of universal health care... If everything is paid for by government. You will have companies trying to get in and overcharge and you will lose what I call the consumer interest."
Voted NO on requiring negotiated Rx prices for Medicare part D. Would require negotiating with pharmaceutical manufacturers the prices that may be charged to prescription drug plan sponsors for covered Medicare part D drugs.
Medicare Prescription Drug Price Negotiation Act; Bill HR 4 ("First 100 hours") ; vote number 2007-023 on Jan 12, 2007
"I don't like the idea of universal health care... If everything is paid for by government. You will have companies trying to get in and overcharge and you will lose what I call the consumer interest."
Voted NO on the State Children's Health Insurance Program.
Q: What does your health care plan contain to address racial disparities in access to care and access to quality health care? A: The first thing you've got to have is the ability to buy your health care insurance across state lines. And right now, nobody in the US can do that. Secondly, I think we bring back the family doctor. And I think one way you bring back the family doctor is by taking away massive malpractice burdens, these massive insurance premiums that we place on people. And finally, let's try a little freedom. How about if we said in the tax code that if a doc will be a family doc, in the barrio, in the community, and he will do office visits for 30 bucks or 40 bucks a visit, he doesn't have to pay taxes on that, he doesn't have to have three accountants, he doesn't have to do all those things. Bring back the family doctor.
2007 GOP Presidential Forum at Morgan State University Sep 27, 2007
Voted YES on small business associations for buying health insurance. Vote to pass a bill that would permit the creation of association health plans through which small companies could group together to buy insurance for their employees. Association health plans that cover employees in several states would be excused from many individual state insurance regulations but would be regulated by the Labor Department.
Small Business Health Fairness Act; Bill HR 660 ; vote number 2003-296 on Jun 19, 2003