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Tim Kaine vice presidential campaign, 2016/Healthcare

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Tim Kaine
Democratic vice presidential nominee
Running mate: Hillary Clinton

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See what Tim Kaine and the 2016 Democratic Party Platform said about healthcare below.

Democratic Party Kaine on healthcare

  • Kaine was a strong proponent of prevention. On his Senate website in 2016, he wrote, "We must do more to lower costs while improving the quality of care through promoting preventive care, effectively using technology, paying our health care providers by patient outcomes and finding ways to reduce defensive medicine and lower malpractice premiums without taking rights away from injured people."[1]
    • Kaine also praised the Affordable Care Act as a step in the right direction toward improving the healthcare system. "In addition to extending Medicare’s solvency," his website read, "the Affordable Care Act expands health insurance coverage to the uninsured, uses refundable tax credits to help working families afford quality health care and reins in the worst insurance company abuses."[1]
    • In the Senate, Kaine co-sponsored legislation aimed at giving health insurance consumers more options to meet their financial needs, helping families secure tax credits on state and federal healthcare exchanges, and preventing premiums from rising for millions.[1]
  • On November 5, 2015, Kaine introduced legislation to help prevent opioid overdose deaths by encouraging doctors to prescribe naloxone, a drug that quickly reverses opioid and heroin overdoses, whenever they prescribe opioids for pain or treat patients with opioid use disorders. Introducing the bill in a speech on the Senate floor, Kaine said, "There’s a lot of issues that we have to solve. But there is this bit of good news — that naloxone saves lives, and it’s easy to administer, it doesn’t have a negative side effect, and if we can broaden access to naloxone for those who have been prescribed opioids, we’ve saved lives in the past and we’re going to save a lot more.”[2]
  • While governor of Virginia, Tim Kaine signed a law in 2009 that banned smoking in restaurants and bars. This made Virginia the first southern state to enact a smoking ban. Tobacco has long been a part of Virginia's history and cigarette manufacturer Philip Morris USA is based in Richmond, Va.[3][4]

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