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Candidates' Positions and Views |
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for:
United States Senator, Pennsylvania |
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April 24, 2012 Pennsylvania Democratic Primary |
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Candidates positions and views on other Issues where information is available: |
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The report below lists the candidate responses to Health & Medical issue questions. The responses were provided by Joseph John Vodvarka and Bob Casey, Jr. or were obtained from their websites. The candidates select the issues and questions for which they want to provide a response. The first link is a report of all the issues and questions made available to the candidates. Many issues and questions had no responses - links are only provided where we have information. If there are many candidates for this office, you may have to scroll down to compare all responses. |
| Health & Medical |
Joseph John Vodvarka - D
Website
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Bob Casey, Jr. - D
Website
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| Medical Research |
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Using Health Information Technology to Reduce Medical Errors and Costs
Bob Casey will strongly support the kind of innovative bipartisan legislation recently introduced by Senators Hillary Clinton and Bill Frist to technologically upgrade medical systems throughout the country. The Clinton-Frist legislation will accelerate the transition of hospitals and other medical facilities to electronic record-keeping and so that then can ultimately participate in a nationwide online network for health care information. Moving to such a system could significantly reduce medical errors that now lead to thousands of unnecessary deaths and injuries each year. Estimates show that an online system of health care information could lead to medical efficiency improvements that reduce medical costs up to $200 billion a year.
Enhancing Medical Research
Advanced medical research has developed treatments and vaccines for many diseases previously thought untreatable. Bob Casey believes that funding for the National Institutes of Health should be increased - not frozen as President Bush proposes in his FY07 budget. Such a freeze could have hazardous effects on future medical breakthroughs.
Source: Candidate Website (10/07/2006) |
| These are available issue topics for which there were no responses. |
| Health & Medical Care, a General Statement |
| Improving Health & Medical Care |
| Reducing Health Care Costs |
| Rationing Health Care |
| Disease Prevention |
| Rural Health Care |
| Health Information Interchange Network |
| Quality and Cost Reporting |
| Biomedical Superiority |
| Patient's Bill of Rights |
| Medical Errors |
| Immunizations and Vaccinations |
| Health Opportunity Accounts |
| Alternative Medicine |
| National Institutes of Health (NIH) |
| Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) |
| Physicians |
| Nurses |
| Public Health Workers |
| Association Health Plans (AHP) |
| Children's Health |
| Women's Health |
| Elderly's Health |
| Health Disparities |
| Exposure to Toxic Chemicals |
| HIV/AIDS |
| Cancer |
| Lead Poisoning |
| Mercury Pollution |
| Obesity |
| Diabetes |
| Mental Health |
| Bird Flu (Avian Influenza) |
| Drug Addiction |
| Mad Cow |
| West Nile Virus |
| Autism |
| Asthma |
| Alzheimer's Disease |
| Substance Abuse |
| Resistance to Antibiotics |