Rand Paul: ‘Health Care Was Broken Before ObamaCare’

‘Main thing is the fundamental flaw of ObamaCare is going to remain’

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PAUL: "I think overpromising is a big problem and promising stuff we didn’t really promise during the election. We promised to repeal and get the federal government out of it. Doesn’t mean there’s not a role for government. We thought nationalizing it in Washington was too distant from the people and destined not to work. But I think overpromising is another problem. And I’ve had this conversation with the president and with others in the White House is that if you claim you’re going to fix health care, I think you've got a mistaken notion. Health care was broken before ObamaCare. I think it got worse under ObamaCare and next year it will be bad. The main thing is the fundamental flaw of ObamaCare is going to remain. The fundamental flaw is you have mandates on insurance that chase young, healthy people out of the market because it makes insurance expensive, and then you tell them, hey, but if you get sick, you can buy it after you’re sick. So this adverse selection continues. The only difference wean the Republican and the Democrat plan is the Democrat plan tried to get you to buy insurance through a mandate, government force; the Republican plan is going to dump the money in on the tail end to subsidize insurance companies. I object to both. In some ways it’s actually more morally reprehensible for the government or the taxpayer to be asked to subsidize insurance companies that double their profit under ObamaCare and now make $15 billion a year. I just think it’s a terrible and a very un-republican idea to give a major corporation taxpayer money."

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