As I travel around Arkansas, I most often hear about problems individuals are having keeping up with the cost of health care, whether its seniors concerned about the skyrocketing price of prescription drugs or a working parent struggling to keep up with the ever-increasing price tag of health care coverage.
Approximately 500,000 Arkansans are uninsured, which means almost one out of every five people living in our state has no health coverage at all. To that end I support tax credits to help employers obtain health insurance for their employees and tax credits for individuals who purchase coverage on their own. I also believe that Congress needs to make health care more accessible to rural families and help rural health care providers cope with rising costs and the difficulties of providing services in sparsely populated areas.
Finally, Americans will continue to pay more for their drugs then any other people in the entire world unless Congress and the Administration allow the safe importation of prescription drugs from Canada and other industrialized countries. Arkansans pay 33-88 percent more for their drugs than our neighbors in Canada. I am fighting to change this injustice on behalf of our seniors, children, and parents who can no longer feed the profit margins of our nation’s drug companies.
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