my top priorities as senator
healthcare:
I CAN ABSOLUTELY TELL YOU THAT PEOPLE IN CONGRESS OR SENATE (OR RUNNING) THAT ARE NOT HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS, NEVER LAID A FINGER ON A PATIENT, ORDERED TESTS, TREATED PATIENTS, SPENT HOURS ON THE PHONE GETTING NEEDED DIAGNOSTIC TESTING APPROVED, GIVEN THE WORSE NEWS TO A PERSON, KNOWS HOW TO RUN HEALTHCARE. LEAVE THAT TO US THAT ACTUALLY CARE ABOUT YOU.
Kentucky is 48th in Healthcare in the country. I have a plan to make it more affordable for families and actually get the services you pay for without relying on the government to mess it up. Private healthcare that you get to pick what type, catastrophic insurance, pre-existing, regular healthcare etc. Lots of competition between companies in state and out of state to lower prices and reduce premiums and co-pays. You actually get what you pay for. Your Doctor (like myself) and you are in charge. No rationing services or medications. Remember when employers could afford providing health insurance for you and your family. Those days will come back. We will of course have the options of receiving aid for those whose income is below the poverty level. Through assistance programs to decrease their premium if they really warrant it.
EDUCATION:
Kentucky is 38th in education in the country. What has happened is that the teachers are overworked and underpaid teaching standardized testing and not teaching the subject. We are 33rd in the world taking the standardized testing? This is horrible. Teaching the subjects, being certified in teaching the subjects, more disicpline in the classroom and backing our teachers will help our schools to be the best in the world. We need more targeted funding for our schools. Cutting pork spending and actually supplying our young people and teachers needs to be our greatest priority. I believe no child in school should go hungry. We are a great loving country. Our young people are our future. Teach them to love and respect each other and our great Country.
TRADE SCHOOLS:
Kentucky has lost alot of jobs due to the coal industry being dessimated. Trade schools in those areas are necessary to help people develop and to be trained in high skilled jobs. But coal keeps the lights on. Imagine if politicians said Detroit no more cars, find another industry? That's what they did to Eastern Kentucky. I want the coal back, good jobs and pay to raise a family. No more promises. I'll deliver.
Kentucky is 48th in Healthcare in the country. I have a plan to make it more affordable for families and actually get the services you pay for without relying on the government to mess it up. Private healthcare that you get to pick what type, catastrophic insurance, pre-existing, regular healthcare etc. Lots of competition between companies in state and out of state to lower prices and reduce premiums and co-pays. You actually get what you pay for. Your Doctor (like myself) and you are in charge. No rationing services or medications. Remember when employers could afford providing health insurance for you and your family. Those days will come back. We will of course have the options of receiving aid for those whose income is below the poverty level. Through assistance programs to decrease their premium if they really warrant it.
EDUCATION:
Kentucky is 38th in education in the country. What has happened is that the teachers are overworked and underpaid teaching standardized testing and not teaching the subject. We are 33rd in the world taking the standardized testing? This is horrible. Teaching the subjects, being certified in teaching the subjects, more disicpline in the classroom and backing our teachers will help our schools to be the best in the world. We need more targeted funding for our schools. Cutting pork spending and actually supplying our young people and teachers needs to be our greatest priority. I believe no child in school should go hungry. We are a great loving country. Our young people are our future. Teach them to love and respect each other and our great Country.
TRADE SCHOOLS:
Kentucky has lost alot of jobs due to the coal industry being dessimated. Trade schools in those areas are necessary to help people develop and to be trained in high skilled jobs. But coal keeps the lights on. Imagine if politicians said Detroit no more cars, find another industry? That's what they did to Eastern Kentucky. I want the coal back, good jobs and pay to raise a family. No more promises. I'll deliver.
Health care quality holds one-third of the weight in ranking the Best States for health care. Four metrics – Medicare quality, hospital quality, nursing home quality and preventable hospital admissions – contributed to the rankings. Though this subcategory’s rankings are determined by only four metrics, they offer a broad and multifaceted outlook on the state of health care in the nation. Health care quality is intrinsically linked to health care accessibility, and it contributes heavily to a state's population health, the other two subcategories used to determine the Best States for health care.
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The quality of a community’s schools is central to any family’s aspirations. Public education has largely been a local matter for school boards and states that allocate most of their funding. Yet for the past several decades, the federal government has entered the field: With the No Child Left Behind Act, President George W. Bush put in place requirements that schools demonstrate “adequate yearly progress” based on standardized student testing. The law was replaced during the Obama administration with the Every Student Succeeds Act. Many states also coordinated with the federal government in Common Core standards for basic curriculum. Now Republicans are promoting another direction based on charter schools, privately run schools operated with public oversight and funding, and school choice, enabling parents to decide which public or private schools their children attend with public funding. |