We are all paying for the health care crisis - whether through escalating prices for insurance, doctor visits, or lower wages. The more money businesses put into health care, the less they put into your pay envelope.

We must cut soaring health care costs.  Our goal must be a family doctor for every family.

Right now, families tangle with a rat’s nest of insurance bureaucracies, HMO red tape and emergency room nightmares. They still don’t get the health care they need. And we all pay more for it.

We will lower health care costs by using technology to manage our care and not just deny our claims, expanding insurance buying groups to include all Americans, and moving patients from the emergency room to the family doctor’s office.

We must transition to health care instead of sick care. We must dramatically improve preventative medicine - it’s cheaper and makes more sense to teach children healthy eating habits than to amputate a diabetic’s limb.

My opponent’s vote against health care for children of working families was wrong - financially and morally. She accepts taxpayer-funded health insurance for herself but denies it to the children of working parents who pay for her coverage.

I oppose my opponent’s plan to turn Medicare over to the giant insurance companies.  She took money from our pocket and gave it to her contributors in the drug companies by preventing Medicare from negotiating lower prescription prices.   That’s not free market economics - that’s a free lunch. Our senior citizens have earned the right to make their own health care choices, not leave it up to some corporate insurance bureaucrat.