Declared 2012
Libertarian Presidential Candidate
Former Chair of the Libertarian Party of Texas
Roger Gary
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Gary Position on Health Care
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Roger Gary proposes to lower health care costs by opening the market to greater competition, removing governmental regulations on the industry, and creating health care savings accounts.
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Gingrich Position on Health Care
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• He thinks that health care should be competitive and allowed to cross state lines. Competition would lower prices and provide more choices.
• He would give tax credits for developing the technology to help and prevent disabilities.
• Gingrich thinks Medicare should focus on preventative health instead of illness and that we’d save $14 billion on diabetes treatments alone.
• He thinks the government does not belong in health care. Nationalizing health care hurts everyone.
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Declared 2012
Libertarian Presidential Candidate
3-Tour Combat Vet, Philosopher and Law Student
RJ Harris
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Harris Position on Health Care
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Return healthcare back to the states, tribes and citizens. Put all active duty, guard, reserves and wounded veterans on Medicare, thereby eliminating the inter-service and VA medical systems, and allow service members and veterans to seek care from the best providers.
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Declared 2012
Libertarian Presidential Candidate
Former Governor of New Mexico
Gary Johnson
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Johnson Position on Health Care
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Johnson believes that a bloated legislative and regulatory environment has deprived the competition factor from our healthcare system, leading to government sanctioned monopolies. The solution lies with reintroducing a free market platform with flexibility to choose providers and plans as provided for in the Commerce Clause (Article I, Section 8, Clause 3). This will eventually bring down costs to more manageable levels and weed out inefficient segments of the system.
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Miller Position on Health Care
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• Miller will immediately de fund the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 and support its repeal.
• He will support the world renowned Mayo Clinics proposals to reform health care that were submitted to and rejected by Congress in May 2009.
• He will reform tort laws and malpractice insurance.
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Declared 2012
Democratic Presidential Candidate
Current President of the United States
Barack Obama
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Obama Position on Health Care
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• He claims that medical bills and health related issues are the number one cause for personal bankruptcy.
• A priority for Obama would be to promote affordable, accessible, and high-quality health care.
• Obama would mandate that all children have health care coverage.
• He would create a national public insurance program that would allow individuals and small businesses to buy affordable health care similar to that available to federal employees.
• He supports universal health care, and believes that the government should buy prescription drugs in bulk to reduce costs.
• His plan would require all employers to contribute toward health coverage for their employees or toward the cost of the public plan.
• He wants hospitals to be graded on performance and switch to more cost-effective, computerized record keeping system.
• Obama would create a national health insurance exchange to reform the private insurance market.
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Declared 2012
Libertarian Presidential Candidate
New York attorney and founder of the Paralegal Institute
Carl Person
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Person Position on Health Care
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The removal of business regulations will make health care more affordable by creating more competition.
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Romney Position on Health Care
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• Romney supports universal health care but not a government program which would raise taxes.
• As Governor of Massachusetts, Romney implemented a universal health care plan for the state.
• He plans on market reforms to expand and deregulate private insurance to decrease costs and give more Americans access to affordable care.
• He wants to offers tax breaks and other incentives to individuals without insurance.
• Romney would allow tax deductions for out-of-pocket medical expenses.
• He would permit states to direct funds spent treating the uninsured to instead assist them in purchasing private health insurance.
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Snyder Position on Health Care
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"Repeal Obamacare. Allow competition among states to drive costs down. Initiate tort reform to help reduce medical costs."
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Wuensche Position on Health Care
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• Vern Wuensche strongly demands that the 2010 health care bill be repealed.
• He believes that tort reform with a cap on punitive damages should be enacted on health care cases.
• He believes that consumers should be allowed to buy health care insurance across state lines.
• Wuensche believes that free enterprise should be introduced into the health care system by means of efficient tax free medical savings accounts.
• He believes that emphasis should be placed on the prevention and early detection of health care problems.
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