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Member, Safety Subcommittee Commission on Excellence
Representative, Platform Committee, 2006
Chair, Ways and Means
1. Abortions should always be illegal.
- X
2. Abortions should always be legal.
- No Answer
3. Abortions should be legal only within the first trimester of pregnancy.
- No Answer
4. Abortions should be legal when the pregnancy resulted from incest or rape.
- No Answer
5. Abortions should be legal when the life of the woman is endangered.
- No Answer
6. Abortions should be subject to a mandatory waiting period.
- X
7. Require clinics to give parental notification before performing abortions on minors.
- X
8. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Education (Higher)
- Slightly Increase
2. Education (K-12)
- Slightly Increase
3. Emergency preparedness
- Maintain Status
4. Environment
- Maintain Status
5. Health care
- Slightly Increase
6. Law enforcement
- Slightly Increase
7. Transportation and Highway infrastructure
- Maintain Status
8. Welfare
- Maintain Status
9. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer
1. Alcohol taxes
- Slightly Increase
2. Cigarette taxes
- Maintain Status
3. Corporate taxes
- Slightly Decrease
4. Gasoline taxes
- Maintain Status
5. Income taxes (incomes below $75,000)
- Maintain Status
6. Income taxes (incomes above $75,000)
- Maintain Status
7. Property taxes
- Eliminate
8. Sales taxes
- Slightly Decrease
9. Vehicle taxes
- Slightly Decrease
10. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer
11. Should state sales taxes be extended to Internet sales?
- Undecided
12. Should accounts such as a "rainy day" fund be used to balance the state budget?
- Yes
13. Should fee increases be used to balance the state budget?
- No
14. Do you support an Indiana state constitutional amendment capping property taxes?
- Yes
15. Do you support an Indiana state constitutional amendment prohibiting property taxes?
- Yes
16. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Do you support the current limit of terms for Indiana governors?
- Yes
2. Do you support limiting the number of terms for Indiana state senators and representatives?
- Yes
1. Individual
- No
2. PAC
- No
3. Corporate
- No
4. Political Parties
- No
5. Do you support requiring full and timely disclosure of campaign finance information?
- Yes
6. Do you support imposing spending limits on state-level political campaigns?
- No
7. Should Indiana participate in the federal REAL ID program?
- Yes
8. Do you support prohibiting municipalities from involuntarily annexing neighborhoods or towns?
- Yes
9. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Increase state funds for construction of state prisons and hiring of additional prison staff.
- No Answer
2. Support the death penalty in Indiana.
- No Answer
3. Support programs to provide prison inmates with vocational and job-related skills and job-placement assistance when released.
- X
4. Implement penalties other than incarceration for certain non-violent offenders.
- X
5. Decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana.
- No Answer
6. Minors accused of a violent crime should be prosecuted as adults.
- No Answer
7. Support state and local law enforcement officials enforcing federal immigration laws.
- X
8. Support hate crime legislation.
- No Answer
9. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Support state funding of universal pre-K programs.
- No Answer
2. Support federal education standards and testing requirements for K-12 students (No Child Left Behind).
- No Answer
3. Support state education standards and testing requirements for K-12 students.
- X
4. Support requiring public schools to administer high school exit exams.
- X
5. Allow parents to use vouchers to send their children to any public school.
- X
6. Allow parents to use vouchers to send their children to any private or religious school.
- No Answer
7. Provide state funding to increase teacher salaries.
- No Answer
8. Support using a merit pay system for teachers.
- X
9. Provide state funding for tax incentives and financial aid to help make college more affordable.
- X
10. Support allowing illegal immigrant high school graduates of Indiana to pay in-state tuition at public universities.
- No Answer
11. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Increase funding for state job-training programs that re-train displaced workers and teach skills needed in today?s job market.
- X
2. Reduce state government regulations on the private sector.
- No Answer
3. Provide low interest loans and tax credits for starting, expanding, or relocating businesses.
- X
4. Provide tax credits for businesses that provide child care for children in low-income working families.
- No Answer
5. Increase state funds to provide child care for children in low-income working families.
- No Answer
6. Include sexual orientation in Indiana's anti-discrimination laws.
- No Answer
7. Include gender identity in Indiana's anti-discrimination laws.
- No Answer
8. Increase the state minimum wage.
- No Answer
9. Support laws that prevent employers from dismissing employees at will.
- No Answer
10. Support financial punishments for those who knowingly employ illegal immigrants.
- No Answer
11. Support increased work requirements for able-bodied welfare recipients.
- X
12. Increase funding for employment and job training programs for welfare recipients.
- No Answer
13. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Promote increased use of alternative fuel technology.
- X
2. Support increased production of traditional domestic energy sources (e.g. coal, natural gas, oil, etc).
- No Answer
3. Support providing financial incentives to farms that produce biofuel crops.
- X
4. Use state funds to clean up former industrial and commercial sites that are contaminated, unused, or abandoned.
- No Answer
5. Support funding for improvements to Indiana's power generating and transmission facilities.
- No Answer
6. Support funding for open space preservation.
- No Answer
7. Limit carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases linked to global warming.
- No Answer
8. Enact environmental regulations even if they are stricter than federal law.
- No Answer
9. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Should background checks be required on gun sales between private citizens at gun shows?
- No
2. Should citizens be allowed to carry concealed guns?
- Yes
3. Should a license be required for gun possession?
- No
4. Do you support current levels of enforcement of existing state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns?
- Yes
5. Do you support current state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns?
- Yes
6. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Ensure that citizens have access to basic health care through managed care, insurance reforms, or state-funded care where necessary.
- No Answer
2. Guaranteed medical care to all citizens is not a responsibility of state government.
- X
3. Limit the amount of damages that can be awarded in medical malpractice lawsuits.
- X
4. Allow patients to sue their HMOs.
- No Answer
5. Require hospitals and labs to release reports on infections that are a risk to public health, while not compromising patient confidentiality.
- X
6. Legalize physician assisted suicide in Indiana.
- No Answer
7. Support allowing doctors to prescribe marijuana to their patients for medicinal purposes.
- No Answer
8. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Should Indiana recognize civil unions between same-sex couples?
- No
2. Should same-sex couples be allowed to marry?
- No
3. Should Indiana provide state-level spousal rights to same-sex couples?
- No
4. Do you support a moment of silence in public schools?
- Yes
5. Do you support voluntary prayer in public schools?
- Yes
6. Do you support sexual education programs that include information on abstinence, contraceptives, and HIV/STD prevention methods?
- Undecided
7. Do you support abstinence-only sexual education programs?
- Yes
8. Should the state government consider race and gender in state government contracting and hiring decisions?
- Undecided
9. Do you support affirmative action in public college admissions?
- No
10. Should Indiana continue affirmative action programs?
- Undecided
11. Do you support state funding of stem cell research?
- No
12. Do you support state funding of embryonic stem cell research?
- No
13. Do you support allowing pharmacists who conscientiously object to emergency contraception to refuse to dispense it?
- Yes
14. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Please explain in a total of 100 words or less, your top two or three priorities if elected. If they require additional funding for implementation, please explain how you would obtain this funding.
- No Answer
Type: concurrent resolution Chamber: upper
Type: bill Chamber: upper
Type: bill Chamber: upper
As physicians, we have a core principle belief that every citizen should have the opportunity to access quality, affordable health care. Unfortunately, too many of our citizens go without basic, necessary care for a variety of reasons, a problem that is particularly acute for low-income Hoosiers. In our state alone, 350,000 low-income working adults are currently without access to quality health care to meet their needs. The Obama administration's proposed solution to this challenge is a one-size-fits-all approach that simply expands Medicaid as we know it today. This overlooks the data that shows Medicaid patients are no better off and are more likely to rely on the emergency room for primary care as their uninsured counterparts. Expansion only guarantees that beneficiaries will have an insurance card in their pocket, but not that they will be able to access care when and where they need it. From a health care provider's perspective, traditional Medicaid has become a barrier to patient-centered care. This is a significant challenge that must be addressed and a challenge on which Indiana has been a national leader. We can only achieve the goal of providing access to quality affordable care to all citizens by addressing the skyrocketing costs. During our statewide, "Hoosier Healthcare Tour," we heard a resounding sentiment from Hoosiers who both access and administer health care, that they believe Indiana should have the flexibility to meet the needs of low-income patients by expanding the Healthy Indiana Plan, not traditional Medicaid. We agree. And as physicians, we know that the best care is delivered through a system where patients have a personal financial stake in making correct decisions concerning how to access the health care system and where decisions are made by the patient and their family in consultation with their physician, not by government bureaucrats. We have strongly supported Gov. Mike Pence's decision to not expand the broken, traditional Medicaid system through the Affordable Care Act because we have a better solution in Indiana.By US Rep. Larry Bucshon, M.D. and State Rep. Tim Brown, M.D. Six years ago, under the leadership of Gov. Mitch Daniels, Indiana crafted the Healthy Indiana Plan (HIP), a fiscally responsible, consumer-driven program to provide low-income Hoosiers the quality health care they deserve. With the idea that patients with more control and responsibility over their care will make better decisions, HIP has been enormously successful. In fact, HIP boasts a 98 percent approval rating from enrollees and has actually led to a reduction in health care costs -- a major obstacle we have to expanding access to care. Building on the successes of HIP, Gov. Pence has led the charge for the federal government to give Indiana the flexibility to cover our Medicaid population by expanding HIP and creating HIP 2.0. As conservatives, as Hoosiers, and as physicians, this plan accomplishes what we believe is necessary to expand access to care for low-income residents through a few core principles. HIP 2.0 is consumer-driven. The governor's plan puts patients in the driver's seat and requires them to have skin in the game to receive additional benefits, while protecting a basic plan that covers all enrollees. It also incentivizes preventive health care, which is a critical component to addressing not just overall health, but the cost of care. HIP 2.0 is fiscally responsible. The plan is budget neutral; it does not pay for expansion on the backs of Hoosier taxpayers and does not rely on resources from the general fund. HIP 2.0 supports private, employer sponsored insurance plans. Hoosiers who qualify for health insurance through their employer, yet can't afford it with their income level are empowered to enroll in an employer-sponsored plan that best fits their needs. HIP 2.0 bends the cost curve down. It does no good to expand access if we do not address the growing cost of care. In fact, it is our greatest challenge to ensure that everyone can access affordable care. By reducing the use of unnecessary emergency room visits and introducing personal responsibility, among other reforms, consumer-driven programs, like HIP 2.0, have been proven to drive down overall costs. While no plan is perfect, we believe HIP 2.0 is an innovative, consumer-driven blueprint that can be applied nationwide for states to address the growing and critical challenge of expanding access to affordable health care for everyone. Bucshon, a cardiothoracic surgeon, is serving his second term in Congress representing Indiana's 8th District, which includes all or parts of Clay, Daviess, Gibson, Greene, Knox, Martin, Owen, Parke, Pike, Posey, Sullivan, Vanderburgh, Vermillion, Vigo, Warrick, Crawford, Dubois, Perry, and Spencer counties. Brown, a practicing emergency room physician, has served the General Assembly since 1994. He represents House District 41 which covers portions of Boone, Montgomery and Tippecanoe counties.
