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Latest Answers http://www.askyourlawmaker.org/answers/latest/%2A/%2A/%2A/WY a view of answers sorted by date en Well first of all we don’t have a health care system in this country. Hopefully that’s one of the things that will happen with the new president. When you talk to small businesses, large businesses, people that have their own business, they all agree, most of the people I talk to agree, that we really do need a healthcare system in this country. Hopefully that will be started on this next year, and we can get it accomplished, but its gonna take a little while to make it happen. Reporter: What about the whole question of cost, which your Republican colleagues will definitely bring up? Rep. Hooley: They’ll bring it up, but so will the Democrats. You have to understand it was Republicans that put us into this hideous deficit that we have right now. I think as we bring our troops home from the war, that’s where we’ll get some of the money. And we’re gonnna have to look very carefully at what we do and where we’re putting our money. And if you don’t do this you’re gonna have a Medicare system that’s gonna go broke as well. So you have to put the Medicare system with the rest of the health care system together. Again it may be a slow start but we’ve gotta move forward on this. I think its critical to our country. http://www.askyourlawmaker.org/answers/well-first-all-we-don%E2%80%99t-have-health-care-system-country.-hopefully-%E2%80%99s-one-things-will-happen Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:24:06 -0500 Bryan H 1676 at http://www.askyourlawmaker.org Well as someone who had a family situation where my dad did not have health insurance, I had to drop out of college and go to work; I have a strong personal opinion that we should mandate some sort of health coverage, but I’d like it private with choice. I think right now we really have some of that, but I think some folks without health insurance end up using the system, maybe not paying for the system. But everybody should have access to health care in this country.  Reporter: Do you think the government has dropped the ball on it? Mica: I do. The more serious problems are the cost of healthcare that has driven prices up for everybody, the lawsuits are totally out of control. The paperwork, the monster we have created in regulatory fashion around healthcare has driven costs up, and if we compare the costs in the US to costs in over countries: we could do a better job. Reporter: And do you think there is a quick fix to it, what’s the answer to get rid of all that paperwork and to bring the cost down? Mica: Again, bring the cost down for drugs, defensive medicine, for healthcare in general, I think you’ve really gotta have some serious lawsuit reform. We’ve go to change that, we’ve got to get to a paperless system, a less bureaucratic system, that will help some. But I think we really might want to look to the Massachusetts system, where everyone is required to be covered, but everyone has a choice and I think that would be something that would be preferable. http://www.askyourlawmaker.org/answers/%2526lt%3Bp%2526gt%3Bwell-someone-who-had-family-situation-where-my-dad-did-not-have-health-insurance%2C-i Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 Matt Laslo 1678 at http://www.askyourlawmaker.org We need to provide from the energy point with energy self-sufficiency. Wyoming is the No.1 coal producer in the United States. Number one in uranium. Number two for natural gas, so we've done a considerable amount for the energy need of the nation. I'm going to continue to work to make sure Wyoming is part of that picture. Also we have incredible renewable sources, like the wind. I'm working for renewables as well. http://www.askyourlawmaker.org/answers/we-need-provide-energy-point-energy-self-sufficiency.-wyoming-no.1-coal-producer-united-stat http://www.askyourlawmaker.org/answers/we-need-provide-energy-point-energy-self-sufficiency.-wyoming-no.1-coal-producer-united-stat#comments Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:30:02 -0500 Yanmei Xie 1456 at http://www.askyourlawmaker.org It’s important that we once again restore America’s ability to build nuclear power plants. We’ve lost that now. We have stopped the production of these plants, so to speak, for almost two decades. So it’s time to recognize that it’s a safe form of energy. It produces nearly zero CO2 compared to a coal-fired plant. Zero. Right now, we rely on nuclear power for about 20 percent of our energy. I’d like to see in the next decade or 15 years, perhaps that 20 percent can go as high as 30 or 35 percent. http://www.askyourlawmaker.org/answers/it%E2%80%99s-important-we-once-again-restore-america%E2%80%99s-ability-build-nuclear-power-plants.-we%E2%80%99ve-los http://www.askyourlawmaker.org/answers/it%E2%80%99s-important-we-once-again-restore-america%E2%80%99s-ability-build-nuclear-power-plants.-we%E2%80%99ve-los#comments Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:03:22 -0500 Yanmei Xie 1451 at http://www.askyourlawmaker.org So the point is to make coal to liquid clean and sequestration complete. It's going to take billions and billions of dollars and it has to be done by the federal government. It has to be a Manhattan project, but it's much more important. http://www.askyourlawmaker.org/answers/so-point-make-coal-liquid-clean-and-sequestration-complete.-it%2526%2523039%3Bs-going-take-billions-an http://www.askyourlawmaker.org/answers/so-point-make-coal-liquid-clean-and-sequestration-complete.-it%2526%2523039%3Bs-going-take-billions-an#comments Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:49:58 -0500 Yanmei Xie 1448 at http://www.askyourlawmaker.org It all comes from Hollywood, from the far left, and the ones who are the same as the extremist animal right activists and people who bomb construction sites, but it's a very well funded extreme group. That's why the politicians are inclined to act like they are supporting it. http://www.askyourlawmaker.org/answers/it-all-comes-hollywood%2C-far-left%2C-and-ones-who-are-same-extremist-animal-right-activists-and http://www.askyourlawmaker.org/answers/it-all-comes-hollywood%2C-far-left%2C-and-ones-who-are-same-extremist-animal-right-activists-and#comments Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:26:35 -0500 Yanmei Xie 1446 at http://www.askyourlawmaker.org