Posted on 11/10/2015 8:57:09 AM PST by maggief
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In 2006, Rubio released a book called "100 Innovative Ideas for Florida's Future." In the book's section on healthcare, Rubio decried the fact that "more than 3 million Floridians lack health insurance and may face barriers in accessing needed health services." As a solution, Rubio pressed to expand government-run healthcare programs and create an insurance exchange -- both core tenets of Obamacare.
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The Florida GOP spent roughly $575,000 to promote Rubio's book, according to the Palm Beach Post. Rubio also set up a nonprofit to promote it.
The book's promotion of themes echoed by Obama could intensify recent efforts by Rubio's rivals to peel away conservative voters flocking to his campaign. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush's campaign in particular recently called Rubio "a GOP Obama."
There's just one problem for Bush: He backed Rubio's book with a back-cover endorsement and a foreword.
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No mystery as to who the GOPe/Karl Rove types are. There are only two real choices for change in Washington. Trump and Cruz.
if only i’d bothered to read that book in 2010....
good stuff from the article:
“...one problem for Bush: He backed Rubio’s book with a back-cover endorsement and a foreword.”
There's just one problem for Bush: He backed Rubio's book with a back-cover endorsement and a foreword.
Well, of course he did. Why wouldn’t he? It’s not as if he is a conservative
The GOP e should be called the Opportunist Party. Let the conservatives and others like trump take over the Republican party
Not to defend Rubio, but I think there are some fairly good state-based proposals out there that use insurance exchanges to fill the gaps. What Obamacare did was federalize them and make them too inflexible...driving up costs, reducing options. I recall some fairly conservative minds debating whether a solution post-obamacare could utilize the exchanges in a more effective way. I personally don’t have a full understanding of how that would work or be a detriment.
:) indeed. one thing about FR. it is gold for readers.
I have no problem with states doing their own Obamacare. That’s totally where the decision should lie........but not with federal dollars. If that’s what they want let the states pay for it.
And then there wasyahoo three: Trump, Carson,& Cruz.
There was never anything a shred more “tea party” about young GOPe hack Rubio than there was about old GOPe grandee Romney.
What are you talking about? There was never any need or reason for government at any level to provide an artificial “marketplace”. The public sector is quite a bit more capable of selling insurance over the Internet than the government is anyway.
Should there be subsidies provided on some level of government for certain, compliant policies? I don’t think so, but even if there were, they could just as well be provided through tax credit as through some sort of government “exchange” monopoly.
There’s no unmet need here. Romney did the same thing in MA, when there was no faiiure of the private market to offer plans.
Because something is regulated is no excuse for a wholesale state or federal takeover of an industry. Instead, we need to move in the direction of less regulation.
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