Orr's health care plan

Bob Orr says something needs to be done about health care.

On his Web site, the Republican gubernatorial candidate writes that there is a "looming health care crisis" in North Carolina because of rising costs, a growing population and increasing rates of chronic diseases like obesity.

"If we do not act, we may well inherit a future in which the health care most North Carolinians receive is actually lower quality and more expensive than it is today," he writes. 

Orr proposes expanding preventative care and adopting a "market-based approach" to health insurance. He says that private innovation can also help the economy.

"North Carolina can become a leader in healthcare and acting now to make that happen is not only good healthcare policy, it is good economic policy," he writes.