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Positions and Views on Other Issues where Information is Available: |
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| Health & Medical |
Positions and Views |
| Health & Medical Care, a General Statement |
Tancredo: The United States has the best health care system in the world, which results in people from all over the world traveling to the United States for treatment for various ailments. I believe that we must strive to maintain such high standards, but in order to do this we must allow Americans a greater level of choice and reduce the amount of federal regulation of health care. The traditional doctor-patient relationship is the most important aspect of health care and must be protected. Increasing government control of health care only increases costs, pricing many Americans out of the health care marketplace and contributing to the level of nearly 44 million Americans who go at least part of the year without health insurance.
Source: www.teamtancredo.com Date: 12/05/2007 |
| Improving Health & Medical Care |
Tancredo: I believe in market based solutions to health care problems. One solution is the use of Association Health Plans or AHP s. AHP s would assist greatly in improving access to affordable health care without creating a new big government scheme. AHPs would allow small business owners to band together through pre-existing professional associations to purchase health insurance at reduced rates. It will help to reduce the number of uninsured Americans by giving small business the same accessibility, affordability, and choice in the health care marketplace that Fortune 500 companies and unions now enjoy. Experts estimate that up to 8.5 million uninsured small business workers could gain coverage and small business owners would save up to 25 percent on health insurance enabling more businesses to provide coverage.
Source: www.teamtancredo.com Date: 12/06/2007 |
| Reducing Health Care Costs |
Tancredo: The way to address America s heath care problems is not through bigger government programs, litigation, regulation, or additional government spending. Indeed, these things have contributed and continue to contribute to the rising cost of health care. Another contributing factor is illegal immigration. While illegal immigration isn t generally the first thing Americans think of when they think about health care, it has a significant impact on the cost, availability and quality of health care available to Americans. The millions of uninsured illegal aliens in this country invariably get sick or injured. When they do, they seek what ends up being very expensive treatment in hospital emergency rooms treatment federal law requires health care personnel to provide. The problem has become so acute that Congress recently allocated $1 billion in taxpayer funds to defray the costs incurred by hospitals treating illegal aliens. This is another good reason for our government to take the problem of illegal immigration seriously.
Source: www.teamtancredo.com Date: 12/06/2007 |
| Rationing Health Care |
Tancredo: No Response |
| Prevention |
Tancredo: No Response |
| Rural Health Care |
Tancredo: No Response |
| Health Information Interchange Network |
Tancredo: No Response |
| Quality and Cost Reporting |
Tancredo: No Response |
| Biomedical Superiority |
Tancredo: No Response |
| Patient's Bill of Rights |
Tancredo: No Response |
| Medical Errors |
Tancredo: No Response |
| Immunizations and Vaccinations |
Tancredo: No Response |
| Health Opportunity Accounts |
Tancredo: No Response |
| Alternative Medicine |
Tancredo: No Response |
| National Institutes of Health (NIH) |
Tancredo: No Response |
| Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) |
Tancredo: No Response |
| Medical Research |
Tancredo: No Response |
| Physicians |
Tancredo: No Response |
| Nurses |
Tancredo: No Response |
| Public Health Workers |
Tancredo: No Response |
| Association Health Plans (AHP) |
Tancredo: No Response |
| Children’s Health |
Tancredo: No Response |
| Women’s Health |
Tancredo: No Response |
| Elderly's Health |
Tancredo: No Response |
| Health Disparities |
Tancredo: No Response |
| Exposure to Toxic Chemicals |
Tancredo: No Response |
| HIV/AIDS |
Tancredo: No Response |
| Cancer |
Tancredo: No Response |
| Lead Poisoning |
Tancredo: No Response |
| Mercury Pollution |
Tancredo: No Response |
| Obesity |
Tancredo: No Response |
| Diabetes |
Tancredo: No Response |
| Mental Health |
Tancredo: No Response |
| Bird Flu (Avian Influenza) |
Tancredo: No Response |
| Drug Addiction |
Tancredo: No Response |
| Mad Cow |
Tancredo: No Response |
| West Nile Virus |
Tancredo: No Response |
| Autism |
Tancredo: No Response |
| Asthma |
Tancredo: No Response |
| Alzheimer’s Disease |
Tancredo: No Response |
| Substance Abuse |
Tancredo: No Response |
| Resistance to Antibiotics |
Tancredo: No Response |