Withdrawn / Thompson on Health Care
Words: Thompson believes that competition and personal responsibility will lower health care costs in a free market. He believes that Medicare’s drug payment policy is flawed and costs billions annually due to error and fraud. “Every American should be able to get health insurance coverage that is affordable, fully accessible, and portable … without imposing new mandates or raising taxes.”
Actions: Thompson voted AGAINST medical savings accounts (1996), FOR Medicare means testing (1997), AGAINST increasing tobacco restrictions (1998), FOR limiting self-employment health deduction (1999), AGAINST including prescription drugs under Medicare (2000), FOR the Republican “prescription drug benefit” bill (2001), AGAINST allowing patients to sue HMOs (2001), and AGAINST allowing the import of prescription drugs from Canada (2002).
