District 41
John McManus (D) |
Jim Butler (R) |
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Bio: Experience BUSINESS LITIGATION ATTORNEY, Thompson Hine, LLP, Dayton, Ohio, 2005-Present, PHARMACEUTICAL SALES REPRESENTATIVE, Eli Lilly & Co., Virginia/Ohio, 2000-2002, NAVAL OFFICER/AVIATOR, United States Navy, Florida/Texas/Mississippi/Virginia, 1995-2000. Education UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF LAW, Cincinnati, Ohio, J.D., Law Review, 2005 UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, College Park, Maryland, M.A., History, 1996 UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY, Annapolis, Maryland, B.S., History, with honors and distinction, 1995 WASHINGTON HIGH SCHOOL, Washington Court House, Ohio, Valedictorian, 1991 |
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What legislation do you support regarding the cost and availability of healthcare? If we simply implement common-sense reforms, we would have so many more resources to ensure better access to care. With healthcare dollars stretched thin, and providers paid low reimbursements, many patients face long wait times and cannot access specialty care. Too many of the organizations that are part of our healthcare system are putting profit over caring for people. They not only richly reward administrators and executives while trying to eek more work for less money from those who directly care for patients, but they also lobby to rig the system to ensure patients pay more than they should. I also the author of the Healthcare Price Transparency Law, which was passed unanimously in 2015. This required all patients scheduled for non-emergency healthcare services to get a good faith estimate of the anticipated costs upfront, without having to request it. This should be the same as any other area of our economy, from buying a car to fixing the furnace. It is common sense that patients deserve to know their costs before a service, so they can make an informed decision. |
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What do you view as the most important issue in Ohio? I believe our state and country need leaders who are in office to genuinely serve the people. We need leaders who put principle over politics. We need leaders who have the vision and ideas to fix our broken system, the courage to put forward innovative solutions, even if not politically safe, and the energy and drive to turn them into action and results. Finally, we need leaders who put the people’s interests over those who give political donations. I constantly strive to be that type of leader, and if the voters would look at my background as a citizen, a veteran, a husband, a father, and a legislator, they would recognize this constant effort. |
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How do you plan to address the opioid epidemic? I have been working with my Democrat joint sponsor to draft several pieces of legislation that form a comprehensive solution to the drug epidemic we face. First, provide long-term treatment that works. Current treatments for addiction are not sustained long-term and are ineffective – success rates are less than 10% and the average number of relapses is 6-7. Next, we should substantially increase the penalties for drug dealers. Ohio’s penalties for drug dealers are pathetically weak, which is one reason Ohio is ground zero for drug epidemic. Besides getting addicts out of prison and jail and into treatment, we need to make room for drug dealers by allowing alternative punishments for offenders who pose no physical threat to society. Currently, jails and prisons are overcrowded which leads to the early release of drug dealers from their already-short sentences. This legislation will also aim to help end the abuse of prescription drugs and the lifelong treatment of the addicted with replacement drugs that are equally addicting, and often sold on the streets for profit. Finally, my legislation will help those leaving treatment successfully transition back into society by providing employment, housing and support for 18-24 months after release. |
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What is your stance on gun ownership, including personal ownership, arming teachers in schools, and the sale of guns? I strongly support our Second Amendment right to bear arms. I have consistently supported legislation that protects the rights of law abiding citizens to keep and bear arms if they desire to do so. I also support strict penalties on criminals that utilize firearms or any other deadly weapon in the commission of violent criminal acts. Accordingly, as Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, I supported a bill championed by law enforcement and Attorney General Mike DeWine that imposed much stronger penalties for criminals who repeatedly commit serious crimes, including raising penalties for crimes committed with deadly weapons. |