Dave Spence, Republican candidate for Missouri Governor, spoke yesterday, at the Jackson Senior Center, about his plans for how to improve Missouri.
The former CEO of Alpha Packaging’s first priority is focusing on the economy and how to decrease the unemployment rate.
“Jobs and the economy by far outweigh any other issue in our state, because every other issue in our state tends to be lessened if we have more people getting a paycheck versus an unemployment check,” Spence said.
Spence’s plan for implementing this idea involves making Missouri a “right to work” state, workmen's comp reform, true torte reform which includes loser paying for lawsuits, and eliminating unnecessary regulations to help boost Missouri’s businesses.
A spokesperson for Jay Nixon stated that the Governor has worked with both sides to avoid tax increases and keep the good AAA credit rating, which has led to the lowest unemployment rate in several years.
Spence also says he is against Obamacare and feels that currently the country cannot afford it. He also believes the answer to health care reform lies in a different area.
“I would venture to say the only thing we do well as a federal government is military,” Spence said. “And I don’t think that taking on healthcare is what we should be in the middle of, I think it needs to be a market based/private sector solution.”
Spence says that our country is facing sixteen trillion dollars of debt, and implementing Obamacare could contribute to bankrupting our country.
Spence’s idea of health care reform involves looking at certificate of needs, protecting doctors and hospitals, controlling doctor’s malpractice claims, and re-instating malpractice cap