Health Care
Lauzen: Opposes single-payer system; would make health care a consumer-driven system; supports health savings accounts; would invest more federal money in preventative care; supports tort reform to lower insurance costs.
Oberweis: Opposes single-payer system; supports consumer-driven health care system; would enact tort reform to lower insurance costs; would eliminate free medical care for illegal immigrants.
Dilger: Supports government subsidies for university hospitals to treat those without insurance, and to perform “ground-breaking research”; believes sickness is largely a “social construct” and supports daily vitamins and three meals a day.
Foster: In favor of universal health care; unsure as to whether single-payer system or privatization would work best in saving taxpayer money.
Laesch: Supports Medicare for All bill in Congress; calls Medicare a “successful program that can be expanded to an efficient single-payer” program.
Stein: Promotes universal health care, although not a proponent of one particular plan; better control of prescription and other health care costs by banning incentives from drug companies to doctors for writing prescriptions.
Serra: Supports universal health care and tax breaks for coverage; unsure how to pay for such programs; thinks medical community unwilling to adopt changes to current system.
