Healthcare

Universal Healthcare
Everyone should have adequate healthcare. The first step to achieving this is to get the cost of healthcare down. The first step to doing that is to reduce bureaucracy and unnecessary regulation in the industry and to encourage competition.

Insurance Prices
We could do wonders for reducing the cost of health insurance by allowing interstate competition and be encouraging the use of pre-tax medical savings accounts.

Medical Marijuana
California's stance on medical marijuana must be respected by the federal government.

Medical Malpractice
I do not support placing arbitrary limits on malpractice settlements. This leads to bad medicine, because eventually some health care providers will realize it is cheaper to refuse to treat an individual and just pay the malpractice fine. How much is a human life worth?

FDA
Countless lives could be saved if we sped up the approval process for new medications, allowed patients in America to use experimental drugs, and truly ran the FDA as an impartial safety watchdog instead of a political body.

Stem Cell Research
This is an issue with a lot of misconceptions surrounding it. There is no need for a ban on stem cell research from tissue that could not grow into a human being -- which is nearly all the proposed research in America. Stem cell research does not encourage abortion, and does not kill human babies. Blanket bans are ridiculous.

Human Cloning
My grandmother was a "natural" clone -- an identical twin. Another person having the same DNA as you does not make them the same person. There is no need for a blanket ban on human cloning. If there are specific issues with specific procedures, they must be addressed individually.

Abortion
Abortion must be kept safe and legal. I believe, however, that we could render abortion unnecessary if society would stop ostracizing women who are faced with unplanned pregnancies, and if we truly valued children as our most precious resource.