VIEWPOINTS
NOTE: The views expressed below are my own. However, they embody the guidance
I would provide to constituents researching these issues. As promised, my voting in Congress will be bound to the expressed majority view of my fellow South Dakotans and I will fervently advocate their collective wisdom.
I would provide to constituents researching these issues. As promised, my voting in Congress will be bound to the expressed majority view of my fellow South Dakotans and I will fervently advocate their collective wisdom.
HEALTH CARE REFORM:
Obtaining insurance against life events that may adversely affect my family, or my fellow citizens, or that may cause me to become a burden upon them is a personal responsibility -- not a responsibility for my current employer or my government.
The recently passed Health Care Reform Bill contained a number of provisions that we can all accept as fair: portability, preventing exclusion for pre-existing conditions,
continuation of family coverage for young people struggling in our present economy, etc. It will, however, take some years to identify where the new system is working and where it is not working.
I am absolutely certain that the expertise exists within the U.S. to design an optimal health care system for our society. You could read, for example, The Healing of America by T. R. Reid. I am also absolutely certain that the required expertise did not, and will never, reside in Congress.
At this point, I would strive in the U. S. House to make repairs and improvements -- like adding liability limits for medical practitioners. I will support actions that those working in the industry believe will actually succeed at a reasonable cost. Calls for total repeal or de-funding are unrealistic, until a comprehensive option is shown viable.
Obtaining insurance against life events that may adversely affect my family, or my fellow citizens, or that may cause me to become a burden upon them is a personal responsibility -- not a responsibility for my current employer or my government.
The recently passed Health Care Reform Bill contained a number of provisions that we can all accept as fair: portability, preventing exclusion for pre-existing conditions,
continuation of family coverage for young people struggling in our present economy, etc. It will, however, take some years to identify where the new system is working and where it is not working.
I am absolutely certain that the expertise exists within the U.S. to design an optimal health care system for our society. You could read, for example, The Healing of America by T. R. Reid. I am also absolutely certain that the required expertise did not, and will never, reside in Congress.
At this point, I would strive in the U. S. House to make repairs and improvements -- like adding liability limits for medical practitioners. I will support actions that those working in the industry believe will actually succeed at a reasonable cost. Calls for total repeal or de-funding are unrealistic, until a comprehensive option is shown viable.
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Doctor and Patient
