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Posted on 03/03/2015 9:47:47 PM PST by SoConPubbie
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"Every last word of Obamacare must be repealed," said Sen.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.
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.
...” 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....
I have zero sympathy for those that voted for Obama.
Hear. Hear.
“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
“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
Didn’t get an answer....
Are you planning to respond to their answers to your "Question!", or are you merely a concern troll?
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.
Well, I agree with all this EXCEPT that Cruz also uses the politically correct word “care” instead of what it really is about: insurance.
Yeah...
Oh well. Maybe it’ll be explained in another thread somewhere.
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.
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.
“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.
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