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Access to Quality Health Care
Responsible market-based health care reform extending the fundamental human need for health care is vital to California’s economy and future. A universal, single-payer health care system is a guaranteed path to disaster, ensuring a falling standard of health care, rationing, delays, and inefficiency that characterizes all government monopolies.
California health care providers and insurers must adhere to fundamental principals of fairness, such as offering coverage without regard to pre-existing conditions and charging similar rates for the same procedures regardless of insurance coverage.Small businesses should be encouraged to provide health insurance to their employees through the judicious use of tax credits and self-insurance pools. Californians must have multiple choices for health insurance and health care. The burden for providing access to quality health care must fall on all Californians, not just doctors, hospitals, and businesses.
I support tax credits to individuals as well as private employers, which encourage Californians to obtain and maintain health coverage utilizing free-market approaches.
