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Tom Tancredo on Health Care
A: Let me suggest we think about something in the area of health care that perhaps is unique, different and scary to some people, but that is this: It's not the responsibility of the federal government to provide womb-to-tomb health care for America. And so, we constantly debate on exactly what way we want to push government control of this issue, but in every way we're doing it, it's unhealthy. It is unhealthy to have a government health-care plan in America. There are some things we can do, absolutely. The expansion of health savings accounts that increases individual responsibly. The allowing for people to actually take the reimportation of prescription drugs. Q: I know you voted against the expansion of the children's health insurance this week. A: You bet I did.
2007 GOP Iowa Straw Poll debate Aug 5, 2007
"The most important thing to remember about your health care, is that it's YOUR health care."
Q: How would you address the current cry for national health care? —Angela Thornton, hoffman estates, ill. A: I would look to something other than the government to provide health care, as certainly everything we've seen indicates that national health plans increase costs and decrease quality. I would expand health savings accounts, both who can get them and how much you can put into them. The goal is to get as few middlemen in the process as possible. Health saving accounts allow that to occur for a lot less money.
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
"Expand individual freedom and take some individual responsibility for your own healthcare."
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
Our nation's health care system should be based on free market principles, allowing an array of choices for families in choosing insurance plans, private contracting, portability, and visiting the doctors they choose. To this end, I am supportive of a annual flat tax credit to individuals and families to assist them in purchasing health insurance if their employers do not offer health coverage.
A: Let me suggest we think about something in the area of health care that perhaps is unique, different and scary to some people, but that is this: It's not the responsibility of the federal government to provide womb-to-tomb health care for America. And so, we constantly debate on exactly what way we want to push government control of this issue, but in every way we're doing it, it's unhealthy. It is unhealthy to have a government health-care plan in America. There are some things we can do, absolutely. The expansion of health savings accounts that increases individual responsibly. The allowing for people to actually take the reimportation of prescription drugs. Q: I know you voted against the expansion of the children's health insurance this week. A: You bet I did.
2007 GOP Iowa Straw Poll debate Aug 5, 2007
Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-CO) blasted President Bush's tax reform panel for suggesting slashing home mortgage and employer health care deductions. It was widely reported this morning that the President's tax advisory panel will make proposals next month to "clearly redistribute" the tax burden from the upper and middle class to lower-income earners. The advisory panel will make recommendations to the President which he may endorse or reject. "President Bush will once and for all lose the mantle of conservatism if he embraces tax hikes as 'reform.' The Republican base urges President Bush to stick to fiscal conservatism and reject this panel's recommendation," said Tancredo. "Conservatives voted for the President to move the Supreme Court, to reduce the size of government, and to lower taxes. He has disappointed the base on the first two counts. This would be strike three, and his presidency is out."
Favors association health plans which band small businesses together to access lower cost insurance. Coverage for the unemployed is the responsibility of state governments, but "would not rule out" federal incentives or subsidies for coverage for hard-luck cases.
Promote Association Health Plans (AHPs) which band small businesses together to access lower cost insurance coverage