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Candidates Answer Questions on the Issues United States Representative; District 47 | |||||
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The questions were prepared by the League of Women Voters of California Education Fund and asked of all candidates for this office.
See below for questions on
Economy and Jobs,
Health Care,
Energy Policy,
National Security,
Immigration Reform
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Answer from Andy Whallon:
30 years ago when Ronald Reagan was President, we had the world's 3rd freest economy, and we were and economic dynamo producing millions of new high paying jobs. Now we are not even in the top ten, and have the weakest recession recovery in out history.
Answer from Andy Whallon:
What two health care fields are giving better services at ever lower prices? Plastic surgery, and LASIK eye surgery. That's because the free market rules, and government is NOT involved.
I have a 4 point plan to reform our health care industry.
1. Let anyone buy any heath care plan from any insurance company, with no mandates for coverage we don't want and can't afford.
2. Corporations and labor unions get tax write-offs for health care expenses that ordinary Americans don't get. I will change that by giving every American a tax credit for half the cost of a high deductible health care plan, and by letter everyone save $5000 per year tax free for health care expenses.
3. In many states, the entrenched medical providers have gotten control of the regulatory machinery, and are using it to prevent competition and restrict your choices. This should be forbidden.
4. Stop the FDA from stifling innovation. Every year this causes thousands of needless deaths by cutting off access to life saving drugs and services.
Answer from Andy Whallon:
The federal government has been a major impediment to this, and future progress.
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