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**Supports making all medical expenses tax deductible, allowing insurance to be bought across state lines, tort reform (state-level), and removing the high-deductible insurance policy requirement to access to Health Savings Accounts [http://www.ontheissues.org/Social/Rand_Paul_Health_Care.htm]** Statement from Paul's website:
**Protect vitamin manufacturers from regulation**Get rid of mandatory mental health screening in schools**Encourages vaccinations, allows for religious exemptions- "Parents own the children, and it is an issue of freedom and public health."- Paul
→Health Policy
Overall attitude towards U.S. health care:
*Advocate of repealing Obamacare, in favor of free-market principles/against over-regulation of health care market/opposes any government-run health care system
*As a doctor, I have had firsthand experience with the immense problems facing health care in the United States. Prior to the implementation of Obamacare, our health care system was over-regulated and in need of serious market reforms—but Obamacare is not the answer."
Side views on health care
== Drug Policy ==
