Roy Blunt: ObamaCare Is Still There But the ‘Most Offensive Part’ with the Mandate Is Gone

‘The idea that you could force somebody to do something they didn’t want to do and buy a product they didn’t want to buy is out of the law’

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BLITZER: "For all practical purposes, the president is wrong when he says that ObamaCare has been repealed because of the individual mandate that is gone. ObamaCare is still alive, right?"
BLUNT: "Well, the law is still there but I think the most offensive part of the law and, frankly, that took a major step in a new direction, the idea that you could force somebody to do something they didn’t want to do and buy a product they didn’t want to buy is out of the law and I think it makes it easier, frankly, wolf, to go back now and look at individual things in the law that can be eliminated or improved like association health plans and other things that can make the health care system work a lot better than it’s working now."

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