Healthcare in America

The American people understand that good health is the foundation of individual achievement and economic prosperity. Ensuring quality, affordable health care for every single American is essential to children's education, workers' productivity and businesses' competitiveness.

We believe easily accessible health care coverage for all is not just a moral obligation, but is necessary to making our health system workable and affordable. Doing so would end cost-shifting from the uninsured, promote prevention and wellness, stop insurance discrimination, help eliminate health care disparities, and achieve savings through competition, choice, innovation, and higher quality care.

Health care industry reform must also provide adequate incentives for innovation to ensure that Americans have access to evidence-based and cost-effective health care. Research should be based on science, not ideology. For the millions of Americans and their families suffering from debilitating physical and emotional effects of disease, time is a precious commodity, and it is running out.

Although our party strongly opposes either a mandated or government run healthcare entitlement program we recognize that our government needs to intelligently address the issue and provide guidance and a suitable framework allowing for all Americans to receive adequate affordable healthcare coverage. Our government must take a positive and pro-active role in working side-by-side with the Insurance and health care industry to reshape its approach and policies when offering or issuing health care coverage that is affordable and readily available to all Americans. Taking this active role along with the necessary legislation to create equity within the industry will bring about the desired results of affordable healthcare to all Americans.