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6.1.2. A reduction in mandated benefits;
6.1.3. Efforts to reduce medical malpractice insurance costs,
including limitations on certain punitive and non-economic
damage awards;
6.1.4. Allowing veterans to receive medical care at local hospitals;
6.1.5. A wage index equal to 1.0 for reimbursement purposes;
6.1.6. Exemption of Essential Service Hospitals from Outpatient
Prospective Payments Systems;
6.1.7. An exemption for students and seasonal, part-time, and H-2A
workers from mandated health care regulations;
6.1.8. Coordinated care, electronic records, incentives for results (not
procedures) and preventative care, responsibly reduced hospital stays and payments to medical professionals for their service through telecommunication and email;
6.1.9. Allowing contributions to a health savings account after age 65; and
6.1.10. Using taxes collected for the Medicare Trust Fund only for administering the Medicare Act and fund health benefits for those retirees who opt for Medicare and pay a Medicare premium.
7. Health
7.1. We encourage vaccination programs for potentially deadly diseases
and more domestic production of critical health vaccines as a policy
of national security.
7.2. We oppose funding for abortion, euthanasia and RU-486.
7.3. We urge more restraint and supervision by the medical community
concerning fetal tissue research.
7.4. We support:
7.4.1. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services allocating funding for the research, development and implementation of a Lyme Disease vaccine for humans; and
7.4.2. Awareness, available resources and funding for programs that deal with mental health and emotional well-being for the agriculture community.
8. Health Insurance 8.1. We support:
8.1.1. Small Business Health Plans and voluntary regional insurance purchasing cooperatives, subject to state regulation, to permit individuals and small companies to receive the same price advantages that corporations receive;
8.1.2. Reviewing and revising the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act;
8.1.3. Interstate portability of insurance;
8.1.4. Insuring pre-existing conditions;
8.1.5. Repeal and/or defunding of Patient Protection and Affordable
Care Act (ACA) and the Health Care and Education
Reconciliation Act of 2010;
8.1.6. Allowing insurance companies to sell and individuals to
purchase health plans across state lines to create competitive
prices;
8.1.7. Requiring current and retired members of Congress, the
president, past presidents, their family members and all federal employees with the exception of active duty, retired and disabled military personnel to be included in any national health plan and/or compulsory national health insurance;
8.1.8. Being able to modify coverage, such as increasing deductibles, without losing the status of legacy or grandfathered health insurance policies;
8.1.9. Federal legislation that would afford equal tax treatment and benefits to patrons of health care sharing ministries. Specifically, we support:
8.1.9.1. The tax deductibility of monthly shared costs; and 8.1.9.2. The utilization of Health Savings Accounts (HSA) being
expanded to include the patrons of health care sharing ministries, including the tax benefits of such HSAs in a similar manner as those utilizing a qualified high- deductible health insurance plan.