Posted on 03/26/2015 5:33:03 AM PDT by GIdget2004
Bill Cassidy, the freshman senator from Louisiana and a doctor, has been pushing fellow Republicans in his first few months in the Senate to embrace an alternative to Obamacare — one he predicts will insure more people without mandates.
And he even says he has a way to pay for it: Obamacare.
At an event attended Monday by fellow GOP freshmen to mark the fifth anniversary of the Affordable Care Act, Cassidy took an unusual tack for a Republican by bemoaning the fact that 30 million people remain uninsured, despite the ACA.
He also took aim at the law for leaving pregnancy as “a pre-existing condition.” Asked about that assertion in a hallway interview the following day, Cassidy noted that uninsured pregnant women are only eligible to sign up for Affordable Care Act exchange plans during open enrollment or once their baby is born.
“Now if a woman is pregnant, she’s not signed up, she’s not covered until she delivers. She doesn’t get prenatal care! She doesn’t get prenatal care! … Now, is that a good thing? No. But that’s what they left,” he said.
More broadly, Cassidy, who noted he treated uninsured people for decades as a doctor in a public hospital, said Obamacare uses a combination of penalties, mandates and “bribes” to get people to submit to the administration’s will.
“It’s actually in our nation’s interest for people to have insurance,” but there should be a voluntary approach, Cassidy said.
He told CQ Roll Call his plan could cover those pregnant women, and many more, by providing tax credits large enough for people to afford major medical insurance and giving states the ability to auto-enroll people in insurance plans unless they opt out.
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The Republican leadership in both houses wanted OBiecare to pass, that is why they helped get the bill through both houses of congress.
Their protests were a ruse that only a few noticed.
How does he plan to offer more choices in plans and lower Health Insurance cost? Otherwise he is kind-hearted but missing the point of replacing Obamacare.
Another RINO outs himself.
How does a program that costs more than it brings in pay for ANYTHING?
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