Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton, D, believes that universal health care is a core principle of the Democratic party. The former secretary of state has said that her health care plan would combine employer and individual responsibility. She has been an advocate of vaccinations for children, saying that the GOP doesn’t want to listen to science. Clinton has also been a strong supporter of AIDS research and has been outspoken in her belief that if AIDS were the leading cause of death among white people, there would be more of a national outcry for finding a cure.
“… I’m going to be presenting a plan next week [Sep. 9, 2007] that will be universal. It will cover everyone, and it will make it clear that we as a rich nation with the values that should be the best in the world will once and for all make it absolutely positive that everyone will have health care. Now it’s not only about the 47 million uninsured. Millions of insured Americans don’t get the health care they paid for. We have a lot of people who, all of a sudden, their child needs an operation and the insurance company won’t pay for it. Well, we’re going to make it clear that there will be no parent who ever is told no when it comes to getting health care for their children.
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., was part of the committee that wrote the Affordable Care Act. He is a supporter of ObamaCare, but wants to expand it to insure the nearly 29 million people who still live without health insurance. Sanders has criticized the U.S. for being the only industrialized country that does not offer universal health care to its citizens. The senator from Vermont also wants to include mental health care as part of health insurance to help decrease the number of homicides and suicides.
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“Twenty-nine million people have no health insurance today in America. We pay, by far, the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs. One out of five Americans can’t even afford the prescriptions their doctors are writing. Millions of people have high deductibles and co-payments … the family right in the middle of the economy would pay $500 dollars more in taxes, and get a reduction in their healthcare costs of $5,000 dollars. In my view healthcare is a right of all people, not a privilege, and I will fight for that.”
Donald Trump
Although Donald Trump, R, has said the U.S. needs universal health care, he is an avid opponent of ObamaCare. Trump has said if elected he would repeal ObamaCare and replace it with a health savings account. Trump has also claimed that ObamaCare is draining the economy and bad for small businesses. However, in Trump’s book “The America We Deserve,” the businessman wrote that the U.S. needed a health care system modeled after Canada’s government-run system.
“Autism has become an epidemic. It has gotten totally out of control. I am totally in favor of vaccines. But I want smaller doses over a longer period of time. You take this little baby, and you pump — I mean, it looks like it’s meant for a horse, not for a child. Just the other day, a 2-year-old child went to have the vaccine, and got a fever; now [the child’s] autistic. I’m in favor of vaccines, do them over a longer period of time, same amount. And I think you’re going to see a big impact on autism.”
John Kasich
Like other members of the GOP, John Kasich, R-Ohio, has said he would repeal ObamaCare. As the governor of Ohio, Kasich expanded Medicaid to include mental health insurance. Kasich said that providing treatment for those with mental health issues and addiction stops the commonly occurring cycle of drug and alcohol abuse.
“First of all, President Reagan expanded Medicaid 3 or 4 times. Secondly, I had an opportunity to bring resources back to Ohio. And the working poor, instead of them having come into the emergency rooms where it costs more, where they’re sicker and we end up paying, we brought a program in here to make sure that people could get on their feet. And do you know what? Everybody has a right to their God-given purpose. Our Medicaid is growing at one of the lowest rates in the country. And, finally, we went from $8 billion in the hole to $2 billion in the black. We’ve cut $5 billion in taxes and we’ve grown 350,000 jobs.”
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has said that the U.S. needs to try the free market approach with health care. Cruz has said that it is unfair that members of Congress are exempt from ObamaCare. The congressman believes that the people of the U.S. do not want ObamaCare and that it is Washington’s job to listen to them.
“Millions of people across the country have seen why we were standing and fighting because ObamaCare is a disaster. Five million Americans all across this country had their health insurance canceled because of ObamaCare … The pattern we’ve seen over and over again with this president is he says he’s sorry, expresses outrage then doesn’t fix the problem, he keeps doing it over and over.”