Issue Position: Health Care

Issue Position

The government is too heavily involved in healthcare. While trying to "protect the consumer's right to health care coverage", they have driven increases that far the exceed the normal rate of inflation and made it completely unaffordable to the citizens of Tennessee. This is a classic example of how government involvement artificially increases costs and reduces benefits to the consumers.

The last eight years of government intervention have been disastrous for the health care industry and even more so for the consumer. I have watched friends and small business owners struggle to keep up with the out of control cost while just trying to take care of basic health needs.

It's time to get government out of the way and return healthcare to the private market. Let's sell policies across state lines, put an end to frivolous law suits and allow doctors to treat their patients without having to look over their shoulder.

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