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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"Every last word of Obamacare must be repealed," said Sen.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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To: caww

It’s a start, and a good one.

He’s using the Democrat tricks against them. Small pieces of legislation, baby steps, but significant steps.


41 posted on 03/04/2015 2:41:21 PM PST by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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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....


42 posted on 03/04/2015 2:41:23 PM PST by caww
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To: SoConPubbie
I agree it's a start....but it's really all about government getting the revenues to manage how they choose....and that's the bottom line....I suspect we'll see Insurance companies go and single payer system in time. I have no trust Government will do anything whatsoever to benefit the people...it's all about the cash flow.
43 posted on 03/04/2015 2:44:44 PM PST by caww
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To: caww
I agree it's a start....but it's really all about government getting the revenues to manage how they choose....and that's the bottom line....I suspect we'll see Insurance companies go and single payer system in time. I have no trust Government will do anything whatsoever to benefit the people...it's all about the cash flow.

Except that is not what Senator Cruz is about.

Cruz has been from the start, and still is, the absolute Leader on repealing every last word of Obamacare.
44 posted on 03/04/2015 2:46:41 PM PST by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: SoConPubbie
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.

I have zero sympathy for those that voted for Obama.

45 posted on 03/04/2015 3:40:50 PM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: i_robot73
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?????).

Hear. Hear.

46 posted on 03/04/2015 3:46:58 PM PST by EternalVigilance
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To: i_robot73

“Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, benefits, subsidies, encouragements, progressive taxation, public schools, guaranteed jobs, guaranteed profits, minimum wages, a right to relief, a right to the tools of labor, free credit, and so on, and so on. All these plans as a whole — with their common aim of legal plunder — constitute socialism.

Now, since under this definition socialism is a body of doctrine, what attack can be made against it other than a war of doctrine? If you find this socialistic doctrine to be false, absurd, and evil, then refute it. And the more false, the more absurd, and the more evil it is, the easier it will be to refute. Above all, if you wish to be strong, begin by rooting out every particle of socialism that may have crept into your legislation. This will be no light task.”

— Frederic Bastiat, the Law, 1850


47 posted on 03/04/2015 3:51:48 PM PST by EternalVigilance
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To: i_robot73

“God has given to men all that is necessary for them to accomplish their destinies. He has provided a social form as well as a human form. And these social organs of persons are so constituted that they will develop themselves harmoniously in the clean air of Liberty. Away, then with quacks and organizers! Away with their rings, chains, hooks, and pincers! Away with the whims of governmental administrators, their socialized projects, their centralization, their tariffs, their governmental schools, their state religions, their free credit, their bank monopolies, their restrictions, their equalization by taxation, and their pious moralizations! And now that the legislator and do-gooders have so futiley inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they should have begun: May they reject all systems, and try liberty; for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works.”

— Frederic Bastiat, The Law, 1850


48 posted on 03/04/2015 3:58:12 PM PST by EternalVigilance
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To: mn-bush-man

Didn’t get an answer....


49 posted on 03/04/2015 6:07:28 PM PST by Bigg Red (Let's put the ship of state on Cruz Control with Ted Cruz.)
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To: noinfringers2; Repeal The 17th; Spktyr; ballplayer
Question! I don’t understand clearly how a health care bill evokes such increases in care costs. I can see/understand if such forces people to pay for others insurance as well as their own. However, I suspect it has something to do with care providers manipulating the market. Care providers are not candidates for Santa Clause.
A few people have responded to your "Question!"...

Are you planning to respond to their answers to your "Question!", or are you merely a concern troll?


50 posted on 03/04/2015 6:16:48 PM PST by COBOL2Java ("God save America" - we are at the dawn of a new dark age)
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To: reasonisfaith

You and I know that. The media will try to convince people otherwise and they will have some success with the low-information voters.

If they ignore it, it never happened.


51 posted on 03/04/2015 7:44:15 PM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: SoConPubbie

Well, I agree with all this EXCEPT that Cruz also uses the politically correct word “care” instead of what it really is about: insurance.


52 posted on 03/05/2015 5:57:57 AM PST by MaggiesPitchfork
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To: Bigg Red

Yeah...

Oh well. Maybe it’ll be explained in another thread somewhere.


53 posted on 03/05/2015 7:21:03 AM PST by mn-bush-man
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To: COBOL2Java

Yes I have a response. Who are you to demand that I have to make a response? I take with what people respond in good faith not on demands that someone is owed any response. My guess is that it takes a troll to be a troll.


54 posted on 03/05/2015 10:21:51 AM PST by noinfringers2
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To: noinfringers2

Consider the number of bureaucrats that have been hired to administer this monstrosity. We are talking thousands of new government jobs across the board. The DC lawyers are going to rake billions out of what was once the people’s choice for healthcare.


55 posted on 03/05/2015 10:38:52 AM PST by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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To: SoConPubbie

“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.”

Could be he knows the fix is in.


56 posted on 03/05/2015 12:43:33 PM PST by Slambat
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