Q: Do you support the statement, "More federal funding for health coverage"?
A: Support. All Americans must have access to adequate and affordable health care services that highlight preventive medicine.
I believe that health care decisions should be made by doctors and patients, not insurance companies. Costs have been skyrocketing in recent years.
Any national program must focus on reducing costs before spending taxpayer dollars on inflated insurance premiums. Doctors, hospital administrators, health insurance providers, malpractice insurance providers, and consumer advocates must agree upon a
solution that would dramatically reduce costs and end the upward spiral of healthcare expenses. Until we control costs, all national coverage solutions will simply shift the expense from our insurance premiums to our income tax or the national debt.
Source: Email interview on 2008 Senate race with OnTheIssues.org
Aug 10, 2008
The way to get everyone health care is to control costs
Health care policy clearly needs a bit of work. I believe all Americans must have access to adequate and affordable health care services that highlight preventive medicine--health care, rather than disease care. Most of the plans that are floating around
right now neglect the healthcare costs that have been skyrocketing in recent years. Before we establish a national program, we should address the actual source of the problem, and find a way to reduce the costs of health care. The healthcare system is
terribly deep and complex. We need to bring together doctors, hospital administrators, health insurance providers, malpractice insurance providers, and consumer advocates; and mediate a recommended solution by them that would reduce costs and end the
upward spiral of healthcare expenses. Until we control costs, all national coverage solutions will simply shift the expense from our insurance premiums to our income tax or the national debt. I don't find either of those options to be at all palatable.
Source: Campaign website, www.rothfussforsenate.com, "Issues"
Jun 3, 2008
Reduce costs before we establish a national program
I believe all Americans must have access to adequate and affordable health care services that highlight preventive medicine--health care, rather than disease care, as the expression goes. But getting there is the challenge. Most of the plans that are
floating around right now neglect what I consider to be the most significant problem--namely that healthcare costs have been skyrocketing in recent years. Before we establish a national program, we should address the actual source of the problem, and fin
a way to reduce the costs of health care.
We can't just throw money at this one and make it go away. The healthcare system is terribly deep and complex. We need to bring together doctors, hospital administrators, health insurance providers, malpractic
insurance providers, and consumer advocates; and mediate a recommended solution. Until we control costs, all national coverage solutions will simply shift the expense from our insurance premiums to our income tax or the national debt.
Source: Statement of Candidacy for United States Senate
Mar 22, 2008
