Sheirl Fletcher is committed to...  Health Care

PROBLEMS:

Health care costs are out of control. An estimated 310,000 West Virginians, including 34,000 children, are uninsured or underinsured because of the high cost of health care. Most of the uninsured adults are self-employed or work for small businesses that cannot afford coverage. When the uninsured get sick they have no choice but to go to the Emergency Room for care. The cost of their care is then passed on to those who have coverage. The result: ever rising medical care costs.

SOLUTIONS:

Our country needs a complete overhaul of our health care system, but I am not in favor of a one-size-fits all plan. I support a free-market solution to lowering overall health care costs. The American people should have control over their health care by purchasing policies that meet their needs. We should move from employer-based to consumer-based health care allowing competition to drive health care costs down and the quality of health care to rise.

Too little attention and funding has been spent on preventative health care in this country. Greater efforts must be made to educate the public on healthy life styles that ward off obesity, diabetes and heart disease. It is far cheaper and more effective to treat a potential disease than to cure it.

• CHIP and Medicare funding that provides coverage for the poor and children under the age of 18.
• Health care tax credits for the working poor.
• Health care savings accounts.
• Health insurance that is portable from job to job
• Substantial personal income tax deductions for health insurance premiums.
• Lower prescription drug costs by allowing generic drugs into Medicare and other publicly funded health care markets such as Medicare.
• Funding for Bioresearch to find cures for cancer, heart disease, HIV/AIDS and other acute diseases.

On May 13th, please vote for Sheirl Fletcher -- for United States Senate.

She's Committed to West Virginia!

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