Mike Huckabee’s Stance On Diabetes-Related Issues:

Health Care Plan:
• Price: Lower health care costs by reforming medical liability; adopting electronic record keeping; making health insurance more portable from one job to another; expanding health savings accounts to everyone, and making health insurance tax deductible for individuals and families as it now is for businesses.
• Availability: In favor of state run, innovative private sector plans rather than universal coverage run by the government.
• Dependability: Relies on technological improvements to the health care information system.¹

Stem Cell Research:
Huckabee supports research on existing stem cell lines but does not believe in "creating life for the sole purpose of destroying it."²

Voting Record:
• Individually controlled insurance, not government SCHIP. (Oct. 2007)
• Portable medical records that YOU own, not your doctor. (Sept. 2007)
• Oppose mandated health insurance and universal coverage. (Sept. 2007)³

Mike Talks About Health Care:
"Chronic disease is really driving the cost and creating a system that not only makes it unsustainable economically, but also forces out the capacity to extend the coverage to more people."

"There needs to be more individualized, personalized healthcare."⁴

What the Blogabetes Bloggers Are Saying:
Huckabee and Obama: Iowa Winners On Health Care

Learn More:
http://www.mikehuckabee.com/?FuseAction=Issues.View&Issue_id=8

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Sources:
1 – Mike Huckabee. http://www.mikehuckabee.com/?FuseAction=Issues.View&Issue_id=8 (accessed January 18, 2008).
2 - The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. http://pewforum.org/religion08/compare.php?Issue=Stem_Cell_Research (accessed January 18, 2008).
3 – On the Issues. http://www.ontheissues.org/Mike_Huckabee.htm (accessed January 18, 2008).
4 – CBS News. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/11/12/politics/uwire/main3492955.shtml (accessed January 18, 2008).

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