Elizabeth Dole
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555 Dirksen Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Ph: 202.224.6342
Fax: 202.224.1100

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Raleigh Office:
310 New Bern Avenue
Suite 122
Raleigh, NC 27601
Ph: 919.856.4630
Fax: 919.856.4053

Salisbury Office:
225 North Main Street
Suite 304
Salisbury, NC 28144
Ph: 704.633.5011
Fax: 704.633.2937

Western Office:
401 North Main Street
Suite 200
Hendersonville, NC 28792
Ph: 828.698.3747
Fax: 828.698.1267

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306 South Evans Street
Greenville, NC 27835
Ph: 252.329.1093
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Issues & Legislation - Issue - Healthcare

Too often, too many North Carolinians do not have the healthcare coverage they need. Dramatic increases in healthcare costs have forced many employers to either increase worker co-payments or drop coverage altogether. People tell me that they are frustrated because they feel as though their health plans are more concerned about the bottom line than providing quality healthcare. Doctors tell me they spend more time filling out paperwork than seeing patients. It’s clear our healthcare system needs reform, starting with medical malpractice reform. We have a healthcare crisis before us. Doctors are being forced to practice defensive medicine and order excessive tests and procedures to protect themselves from lawsuits. Other doctors are leaving North Carolina and moving where caps are helping to keep insurance premiums down. This is simply unacceptable. I’ll fight for affordable, quality healthcare and work to help provide access to healthcare for the thousands of North Carolinians who have been locked out of the traditional healthcare system. And I’ll continue working to help provide seniors that rely on Medicare for their health coverage with the prescription drugs they need. I support efforts to set up association health plans so small businesses can take advantage of economies of scale – leveraging together to buy affordable coverage. And I support health tax credits for employers to help them purchase insurance for their employees. Furthermore, we need to expand Medical Savings Accounts so more workers can get affordable healthcare by using tax free dollars.
Senator Dole joins officials from East Carolina University and the East Carolina Heart Institute for the groundbreaking of a new cardiovascular care center in Greenville.
Too often, too many North Carolinians do not have the healthcare coverage they need. Dramatic increases in healthcare costs have forced many employers to either increase worker co-payments or drop coverage altogether. People tell me that they are frustrated because they feel as though their health plans are more concerned about the bottom line than providing quality healthcare. Doctors tell me they spend more time filling out paperwork than seeing patients. It’s clear our healthcare system needs reform, starting with medical malpractice reform. We have a healthcare crisis before us. Doctors are being forced to practice defensive medicine and order excessive tests and procedures to protect themselves from lawsuits. Other doctors are leaving North Carolina and moving where caps are helping to keep insurance premiums down. This is simply unacceptable.

I’ll fight for affordable, quality healthcare and work to help provide access to healthcare for the thousands of North Carolinians who have been locked out of the traditional healthcare system. And I’ll continue working to help provide seniors that rely on Medicare for their health coverage with the prescription drugs they need. I support efforts to set up association health plans so small businesses can take advantage of economies of scale – leveraging together to buy affordable coverage. And I support health tax credits for employers to help them purchase insurance for their employees. Furthermore, we need to expand Medical Savings Accounts so more workers can get affordable healthcare by using tax free dollars.

Elizabeth Dole

RECENT HEALTHCARE PRESS RELEASES  VIEW BY MONTH & YEAR 
May 2006
  8th - Dole: Inaction on medical liability reform threatens the future of our health care system
  3rd - Senators Dole, Santorum and Murkowski Introduce Legislation to Help More Working Americans Afford Health Coverage
November 2005
  14th - Dole Encourages Medicare Beneficiaries to Learn About, Sign Up For Voluntary Prescription Drug Coverage Plan
  7th - Dole Introduces Legislation to Aid Student-Parents with Child Care, Health Care, and Housing Resources
July 2005
  11th - Dole Urges Funding for Global Polio Eradication
February 2004
  24th - Medical Malpractice Reform Legislation Fails in Senate


RECENT HEALTHCARE ARTICLES  VIEW BY MONTH & YEAR 
May 2006
  3rd - Medicare drug plan works


RECENT HEALTHCARE FLOOR STATEMENTS  VIEW BY MONTH & YEAR 
February 2004
  25th - Floor Statement on the Healthy Mothers and Healthy Babies Access to Care Act
June 2003
  18th - Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit


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