Mike’s recent conversation with Green Bay’s WFRV summed up his views on the key
issues rather well, so we pulled some of the highlights.


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John,

 

With the 2020 Elections just one month away, voters around the country are
learning about the candidates seeking elected office.

 

For months, we have been telling you about how Mike hopes to continue bringing
his Marine Corps experience and problem-solving principles to bear in Congress
by empowering patients in health care, rebuilding our military and caring for
our veterans, and bringing good-paying jobs and economic prosperity to
Northeast Wisconsin.

 

We thought Mike’s recent conversation with Green Bay’s WFRV
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summed up his views on the key issues rather well, so we pulled some of the
highlights. We think they’ll give you a good understanding of who Mike is and
what he stands for.  

 

Rising above partisanship & honoring the trust Wisconsinites place in their
Elected Representatives:

“First of all, I'm not going to bash my opponent. I’m not going to attack my
opponent. I think we have too much of that in politics right now. Right now, in
times of crisis, America, in general, and Wisconsin, in particular, has a proud
tradition of coming together. And for whatever reason, it doesn't seem like
that's happening and that needs to stop…"

 

“I'm trying to serve the people in Northeast Wisconsin, fix problems for a
fixed period of time, then I want to go back home to my family and back to the
private sector. And so, all I can promise the people in Northeast Wisconsin, if
they give me the opportunity to represent them for two more years, is I'm going
to continue that common-sense, principle-above-politics approach. I promised
the people that I would treat this like a deployment, not a career, that's what
I've done so far and I intend to keep doing that if they re-elect me.”

 

Top priorities for Mike in the next session of Congress:

“I think we really need to come together as a country when it comes to health
care costs, regardless of whether you support Obamacare or a free market
approach. Health care costs are out of control, and they're crushing the middle
class in Wisconsin. We have to find a way to bring healthcare costs down for
Wisconsin working families."

 

“The second thing is we need to make an investment in our infrastructure here
in Wisconsin…. And then, I'd add a quick third is the generational challenge we
have, which is this competition with China. It's not going away anytime soon.
And what we need to do to win is bring the manufacturing that we outsourced to
China back home to the United States, and I prefer it to be located in
Northeast Wisconsin.”

 

End Congressional recesses to focus on pressing policy issues:

“I do hope that Congress will no longer take months off at a time because
there's a lot of work we have to do. The fact that we're going to go back into
session this week and then will be gone for the full month of October makes no
sense to me. I understand people have to campaign but legislating, particularly
in the midst of a pandemic, strikes me as far more important than any campaign.”

 

Protecting those with pre-existing conditions:

“I actually think both parties agree that we need to maintain coverage for
those with pre-existing conditions, so that was explicitly stated in our bill
that would have reformed the health care system. I introduced a bill, the
Pre-Existing Conditions Protections Act that would explicitly state you have to
ensure coverage for people with pre-existing conditions. In any scenario going
forward, we have to and we should and both parties agree that we have to
maintain coverage for people with pre-existing conditions.”

 

Developing a consensus to fix what’s broken in Healthcare:

“What I still believe today is that, in some sense, both parties have missed
the mark when it comes to health care. The fundamental flaw of the Affordable
Care Act is that it layered a bunch of bureaucracy and money on top of what was
already a fundamentally flawed system and that is the insurance
company-dictated, third-party payment system that I believe disadvantages
patients..."

 

“We came in and tried to fix things around the edges but fundamentally, what
we need to understand [is] the best way to protect people with pre-existing
conditions is to empower patients. The foundation for any healthcare reform
going forward, whether it's Democrat or Republican, is to adopt an alternative
approach based on transparency."

 

“Transparency primarily in pricing so that you as a consumer of healthcare
understand what you're paying for and what you're going to be charged when you
have to go to the hospital…"

 

“I’m proud to work across the aisle with a Democrat from Colorado, we
introduced a bipartisan piece of price transparency legislation. I've worked
with the Trump administration on their last two executive orders on price
transparency. I just wrote a letter with a Democrat from Maine on some of the
things we can do on drug price transparency to the leadership in the House. So,
I think there's a whole host of issues that we could solve tomorrow if we were
willing to work together.”

 

If you want to support Mike and his efforts to address America’s most pressing
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