The Issues

HEALTH CARE

Absent from current health care discussions is an honest analysis of why services are so expensive and how costs can be reduced. Government interference in insurance markets has drastically skewed health insurance costs. Government regulations that forbid competition and discourage individuals from purchasing their own insurance, shopping around for health care and leading healthy lives increase the cost of health care and the frequency of pre-existing conditions. Instead of compounding bad policy with expensive bureaucracy, I advocate free market solutions that encourage Americans to "Live Healthy and Shop Smart."

RIGHT TO LIFE

I believe the right of a human being to remain alive is the most fundamental – the one upon which all others are founded. Once an unborn child reaches a stage at which he or she is considered alive, that child's right to remain alive supersedes the mother's right to choose whether or not to continue her pregnancy. I support the Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act of 2006, which requires doctors to tell mothers about fetal development and the capacity of unborn children to feel pain.

EDUCATION

Parents, not bureaucrats, should ultimately determine where their children attend school. In our education system, the wealthy are able to send their children to their private school of choice. Well-to-do members of the middle class buy homes in neighborhoods with better schools. The majority of working Americans and the nation’s poor are forced to send their children to mediocre and often under-performing schools. I believe in Universal School Choice, which allows all Americans, not just the wealthy and well connected, to send their children to excellent schools.

The Issues

HEALTH CARE

RIGHT TO LIFE

EDUCATION

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