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Sen. Cruz Introduces the Health Care Choice Act
www.cruz.senate.gov ^ | March 3, 2015 | Senator Ted Cruz

Posted on 03/03/2015 9:47:47 PM PST by SoConPubbie

Bill would eliminate destructive and costly insurance mandates while giving consumers more choice and freedom

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, today introduced the Health Care Choice Act, which would remove Obamacare's costly insurance mandates and allow residents in one state the option to purchase a health insurance plan of their choice in any other state. The bill is cosponsored by Sens. John Barrasso (R-WY), Mike Crapo (R-ID), Marco Rubio (R-FL), and David Vitter (R-LA). Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) has introduced companion legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives, H.R. 543.

"Every last word of Obamacare must be repealed," said Sen. Cruz. "And while we continue that fight, we must also send bill after bill to the President's desk to stop its harmful effects. The Health Care Choice Act will reduce costs, force insurers to compete for business and empower consumers to choose a health plan that meets their needs.

"The Administration has done absolutely nothing to prepare for an upcoming Supreme Court decision that could leave millions of Americans unable to afford insurance thanks to this failed law. Republicans must offer the American people alternatives that lower costs and break the status quo that favors big government and big health care business over hardworking Americans. The Health Care Choice Act is one step in that direction.

"This bill is a true market-based reform that will make health insurance more personal and affordable, giving consumers the freedom to select plans that fit their needs, anywhere from Alaska to Texas to Vermont."

Congressman Blackburn added: "Government-run health care has been foisted on the American public. Obamacare has promised a lot to millions of people - with no ability to deliver affordable medical care. That broken promise will be challenged in the Supreme Court on Wednesday. If the Supreme Court rules in favor of the Administration, these millions of people will be stuck with unaffordable health insurance and no guarantee of actual medical care. Sen. Cruz has offered help to these folks. I applaud his effort and I am pleased to see my legislation, H.R. 543, the Health Care Choice Act was included in this bill."

The Health Care Choice Act repeals Title I of Obamacare, which includes the law's most egregious insurance mandates that have caused premiums and out-of-pocket expenses to skyrocket while degrading the quality of Americans' health care choices. The act also amends the Public Health Service Act to provide that insurance policies approved and sold in one state (designated the "primary state") may be allowed to be sold in any other state (i.e. "secondary state") but only if the health plan and insurer comply with certain basic requirements of the secondary state. Some of these requirements include:


See here for complete text of the Health Care Choice Act.


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31 pages of lawyer-speek, nothing more

Sorry, I’m still not seeing the RESTORATION of Freedom and Liberty. This is GOPe Fascism.

Why do biz/employers still have all the ‘perks’?

Why are Joe/Jane six-pack still not ‘allowed’ to deduct h-care costs from their taxes?

Why cannot Joe/Jane six-pack mix-match their requirements the same way they might do for car insurance.

Where did the health-savings-accounts go? (Oh, that’s right, since it was OUR $$ we could take/use...).

Where is the smack-down on SCOTUS re: taxing an INACTION?? Congress HAS the authority....

I still have not seen any Amendment passed that gives Congress ANY authority to assist in the ‘healthcare’ of We the People; let alone stealing from one to give to another (Commerce clause is used left and right, what about the Takings clause?????).


21 posted on 03/04/2015 7:56:41 AM PST by i_robot73 ("A man chooses. A slave obeys." - Andrew Ryan)
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To: SoConPubbie

This is a good step, but IMO the government still has a leash on Health Care, the industry in general simply by the existence of a law governing healthcare, the industry.

The law I’d like to see is a law for government that says government has no business in business. Call it a leash law.

Leash the government as did our founders, not us.


22 posted on 03/04/2015 7:58:12 AM PST by rockinqsranch ((Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will. They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.))
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To: SoConPubbie

Go Cruz, our next President.


23 posted on 03/04/2015 8:49:04 AM PST by Logical me
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To: EEGator

I believe that’s “Lean Forward”


24 posted on 03/04/2015 9:37:53 AM PST by jurroppi1 (The only thing you "pass to see what's in it" is a stool sample. h/t MrB)
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To: mn-bush-man

It would seem to suggest a “lien” on your body or put another way, the lien holder has precedence over the ownership of your body. (IMO)


25 posted on 03/04/2015 9:57:28 AM PST by sanjuanbob
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To: TBP

Wrong.

Cruz has provided a concrete, one-word retort to the claim that no alternative to Obamacare has been presented.


26 posted on 03/04/2015 11:18:15 AM PST by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: SoConPubbie

I heard this morning that if the courts strikes down the subsidies that the “Republican plan B will subsidize those affected” You can’t make that up. I don’t want to pay others insurance premiums. That is out and out Communism. The republicrats make me sick.


27 posted on 03/04/2015 11:52:20 AM PST by iowacornman (Republican party stinks)
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To: iowacornman
It's likely true that in order for the Supreme Court to go against this law, the Pubbies have to put up a plan to prevent total chaos.

Cruz putting this forward is a signal to the court that they can do it, from his perspective it's likely just a starting point.

It's better than letting it stay, I'm thinking he has several steps thought through to put forward if the Supremes strike it.

Cruz is smart, he moves the discussion and keeps pushing in the right direction. I like that.

28 posted on 03/04/2015 11:59:29 AM PST by Lakeshark
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To: Lakeshark

After Kennedey’s volunteered pontification that this would cause a “death Spiral” to the law it is clear he has no fortitude for that. So it’s over. 5-4. We loose. Make it 6-3 with bone head traitor Roberts. Anybody know what they have on that guy? Is it drugs or male protitution?


29 posted on 03/04/2015 12:22:55 PM PST by iowacornman (Republican party stinks)
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To: jurroppi1

I stand corrected, mea culpa.


30 posted on 03/04/2015 12:54:38 PM PST by EEGator
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To: reasonisfaith
A major democrat talking point is now dead.

The problem with demoncrats is they think up things in the vanity of their worthless minds!

31 posted on 03/04/2015 1:24:09 PM PST by TEARUNNER14 (EVEN WITH 1/4TH OF MY BRAIN, I'M STILL SMARTER THAN A DEMONCRAT!)
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To: EEGator
I believe they bend over forward for Obama.

No! They have knee pads!

32 posted on 03/04/2015 1:26:22 PM PST by TEARUNNER14 (EVEN WITH 1/4TH OF MY BRAIN, I'M STILL SMARTER THAN A DEMONCRAT!)
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33 posted on 03/04/2015 1:27:05 PM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: Varsity Flight

Explain your post..............


34 posted on 03/04/2015 1:31:34 PM PST by Osage Orange (I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
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To: Repeal The 17th

Last time I looked....I can buy a Volkswagen, Honda, Toyota, Audi...etc.


35 posted on 03/04/2015 1:33:51 PM PST by Osage Orange (I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
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To: ballplayer

Oh! America! GET OFF YOUR HIGH HORSE! It is what it is as in is, is! So there you go again, Obama!


36 posted on 03/04/2015 1:34:13 PM PST by TEARUNNER14 (EVEN WITH 1/4TH OF MY BRAIN, I'M STILL SMARTER THAN A DEMONCRAT!)
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To: Osage Orange

Last time I looked, I was not required to buy any of them and the federal government did not require them to all look the same.


37 posted on 03/04/2015 1:37:19 PM PST by Repeal The 17th (We have met the enemy, and he is us.)
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To: Repeal The 17th

ok


38 posted on 03/04/2015 1:41:41 PM PST by Osage Orange (I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
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To: TEARUNNER14

But what they think up is being trumped by substance.


39 posted on 03/04/2015 2:15:18 PM PST by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: SoConPubbie

...” allow residents in one state the option to purchase a health insurance plan ‘of their choice’ in any other state”....

No matter how this is done you still got the people who we have to pick up the tab for.

I just read about a guy who was a meth dealer... explosion in his homemade lab costs us a million to treat his burns not to mention disability from his condition for a lifetime......the hospital he’s in looses 3 billion a year on incidents as this.

Not to mention all the risky behavior...aids etc...which people will still go to emergency rooms without insurance and cannot be refused....


40 posted on 03/04/2015 2:39:44 PM PST by caww
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