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I mean I am (not) in favor of abolishing expanded government control of healthcare as currently carried in America.

But that said, I still support Ted Cruz 100%.

My support for Ted Cruz overcomes my concern about healthcare costs.

I realize that my healthcare position is a minority position, but I will fight it some other time.

I mean I am (not) in favor of abolishing expanded government control of health care as currently carried in America.

Am I reading that right? Do you mean you are in favor of expanded government control of health care?

The government meddling in health care, mandating what insurance companies must cover, where they can do business, etc. is the reason health care costs were skyrocketing before Obamacare. Of course, our ridiculous tort law system had a lot to do with it too, and all the lawyers in the government won't allow that to change.

Government, Constitutionally, not only has no mandate to meddle in health care, they have no authority to do so.

“I mean I am (not) in favor of abolishing expanded government control of healthcare as currently carried in America.”
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I don’t want to start a fight but that sentence makes me wonder why you are on Free Republic. I am in favor of getting the government totally out of healthcare other than constitutionally valid functions such as licensing of physicians etc. Ninety plus percent of all the real problems with healthcare can, in my opinion, be traced to government meddling. I think that most people can hardly imagine how much better off we would be without it.

I remember when I could get in a vehicle and drive to a doctor’s office, sign in and see the doctor within an hour or so without calling ahead. I can even remember when the doctor used to come to our house if needed. Now if a person needs to see a doctor and does not have an appointment he may as well go on to the emergency room and he may sit and wait six hours there. If you can wait that long you don’t have much of an emergency. Call today to many doctors and ask for an appointment and you may be told that the wait is six weeks or more. The situation is only going to get worse, even if we got the government out of medicine now it would take a long time to fix what is broken.