 The midterm elections are just over a month away and tonight Lakeland PBS continued its long tradition of providing you a look at your state legislative candidates facing off head-to-head in debates. Our debate tonight was hosted in our Brainerd studio where Republican state representative John Poston squared off with DFL candidate Alex Hering. One of the many topics that were discussed was the issue of health care and how it should be handled in the future. The goal right now in the Republican party is to get our health care back to where it was about 10 years ago when we had probably one of the best, we have some of the best health care in the country but we also had some of the best health care insurance in the country. I think it's going to be a free market solution because I think that's the only affordable solution. As for a single-payer system, not just because it's not sucking off the taxpayers, there's there's always going to be health care provided by taxpayers. The the premiums that the residents will pay, just like you pay premiums now, will actually go farther for further benefits and being able to expand those benefits not just because we say we can but we're actually creating a larger pool of insured people. Our debates will resume again tomorrow night beginning at 7 p.m. right here on Lakeland PBS. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland news, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.