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[Michele Bachmann DROPPED OUT] Favors repeal of health care law and opposes its core: the individual mandate to buy insurance. Favors limits on medical lawsuits to control health care costs. Voted against expanding Children’s Health Insurance Program. [Newt Gingrich] Wants to repeal the health care law; once favored an individual mandate to buy insurance but now opposes it. Would ban insurers from cancelling or hiking rates on those who become sick while insured, an element of the current health care law. Would offer tax credit or deduction to help people buy health insurance, also similar to current law. Would limit medical lawsuits to restrain health costs. [Ron Paul] Opposes compulsory insurance and all government subsidies for health coverage, including the new health care law and its individual mandate. Favors letting people deduct full cost of their health coverage and care from taxes. Says doctors should feel an obligation to treat the needy for free. [Rick Perry DROPPED OUT] Favors repealing the health care law and its individual mandate to buy coverage. Would raise eligibility age for Medicare, limit its benefits for the wealthy and give people the choice of receiving federal help buying their own insurance instead of getting direct Medicare benefits. Proposes turning Medicaid over to the states with a federal subsidy. [Mitt Romney] Wants to repeal the health care law, says an individual mandate was good for Massachusetts but a bad idea for the federal government to impose on all states. Would restrict malpractice awards to restrain health care costs. On Medicare, he would try to woo future retirees to buy private insurance by offering them subsidies. On Medicaid, he seeks to convert the program into block grants for states to carry out. [Rick Santorum DROPPED OUT] Would seek to starve the health care law of money needed to implement it, calls its individual mandate unconstitutional. Supported Bush administration's prescription drug program for Medicare. [0] 
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