Thompson's health care plan:

• Would streamline current government health care programs.
• Promises not to raise taxes in order to provide affordable health care.

Thompson's health care plan would improve health care coverage by:

• Creating a system around an individual's need by providing information and choices of plans.
• Shifting to a system of cost-effectiveness and personal responsibility.
• Modernizing administration of health care through the use of new technologies.
• Free market
• Promoting research for new medicines

(Details: Fred08.com)

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Fred Thompson

Born Aug. 19, 1942

Married: Jeri Kehn

University of North Alabama

University of Memphis: Undergraduate

Vanderbilt University: Graduate

Senator: Tennessee (1994- 2003)