Q: Do you support the statement, "More federal funding for health coverage"?
A: No.
Source: Email interview on 2008 Senate race with OnTheIssues.org
Aug 10, 2008
Supports universal mandatory health insurance
Tweaking a bankrupt system is a parlor game. We need a real solution. I'm calling for universal mandatory health insurance. There's 300 million of us and 40 million of us don't have health insurance.
It doesn't seem like a classic libertarian position
to require everybody to have to do something. But someone coming across a catastrophic financial loss-that hurts me as a member of the community.
Plus having everyone in a universal risk pool is going to lower the cost for everyone who already DOES
have insurance. You're going to bring in millions of health people who are substantially less likely to make a claim.
Also it would allow us to cover people who are too risky to cover. We can bring in everybody with a universal mandatory healthcare
system similar to what we have for liability insurance for automobiles.
How we're going to pay for this is slowly begin to roll back payroll taxes so individual people can make their own healthcare decisions.
