Tommy Thompson on Health Care

Thompson agues that while our health care system remains best in the world, it is not performing as well as it should. The cost of health care continues to soar, strengthening the bottom line and competitiveness of American industry, but leaving too many American families uninsured or underinsured.

Thompson believes America needs to strengthen our health care system if we are to remain the best in the world. To accomplish this he proposes:

• Moving the focus to preventive from curative care.


• Accelerating the adoption of health information technology to save money and lives.


• Placing the uninsured in state-by-state insurable pools, allowing private insurers to bid on their coverage.


• Strengthening the nation’s long-term care system that robs too many Americans of their life savings.


• Strengthening the Medicare and Medicaid programs to ensure the programs are there in the future for the millions of Americans who depend on them. Details on his proposal can be found here.