Posted on 01/30/2016 10:24:06 PM PST by jennychase
HUBBARD, Iowa — Senator Ted Cruz is often asked about doing away with President Obama’s health care law. He is rarely pressed by voters on what will replace it.
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Funny how the New York Times never focuses on the questions on those who lost important coverage and DIED because of Obamacare.
Medicare for all, according to Bernie, the guy you’re working so hard to get elected.
Capitalism? free markets? Government withdrawl from healthcare. removing the tax penalties that make people have to get insurance from an employer instead of the way I buy it for my car. Tort reform?
Well Cruz is the brains guy. He should be able to figure out some kind of answer here. It would have to look like some kind of walk-back with bridges. Obamacare was designed to burn bridges, therefore to go back would require rebuilding them.
Yeah that means the poor taxpayer gets socked both ways, however to stay here is death.
Replace it? I am reminded of President Reagan’s answer to someone’s question about the need for having a Department of Energy to administer an energy policy. Reagan told them we already had an energy policy called the free market.
Would it work? I’d be gung ho for it, if it did. It could just let the old Obamacare edifice collapse.
However a lot of insurance firms would be left eating expensive crow.
Easy.
Since nearly everyone of the 10.5 million who signed up for Obamacare are on Medicaid, sign them up for Medicaid.
The old system sucked badly. And Obamacare made it suck ten times more.
A does of free markets and government out of healthcare is the answer. And it’s idiotic that my healthcare has to come from my job. You should just buy it like you do every other kind of insurance.
There’s nothing magic about health insurance.
I have a friend who is a very successful ear, nose and throat doc. I asked him how he would like to see Obamacare fixed or replaced and he said that if it were possible to remove the whole managed care structure - that would be a great start.
Was it Thomas Sowell who said, “When you cut out a CANCER what do you replace it with?”
It’s true that just because something evolved in a certain way, doesn’t mean we are stuck with that.
Trump might, oddly enough, be in a better vantage point to negotiate the way out of this mess, because he is the deals guy. Between Trump as deals guy and Cruz as brains guy (as long as reality checks keep Cruz from getting too clever by half) there might be an answer possible.
Sometimes with a prosthetic for the healthy tissue it took the place of.
The ACA has been 3 years a nightmare for me. NYT can go # itself.
The asinine-party care act, huh.
the basic answer is simple and Ted should have been prepared to answer it:
eliminate all interstate policy restrictions to foster competition, eliminate all coverage restrictions to allow people to decide for themselves what kind of coverage they want, and expand medicaid for the poor. easy peasy.
no gop candidate should be caught flatfooted by this question.
Misleading title. The way the article is written, the silence came when the questioner was describing his brother in law’s fatal illness. The silence was a perfectly natural show of respect and empathy.
Turns out, the questioner was a Clinton supporter. Cruz gave the same answer he always gives, essentially that if we get the cost of insurance down by natural market forces, we won’t need budget-busting government-centered systems like Obamacare. And that’s just true.
Peace,
SR
Pretty much.
We all know the answer to that question: Cruz will do what his donors and what McConnell/Ryan and the Uniparty TELL him to do.
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