Rand Paul: We Had ‘Deceitfulness’ from Obama That Medicaid Expansion Would Be Free

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PAUL: I think that’s the big question, and I don’t think that’s going to be in the replacement aspect. That’s going to be in the repeal aspect. There’s going to be a vote on — it’s a fancy term, budget reconciliation that has to do with once a budget is passed you can by simple majority alter things that have to do with the budget. That’s how ObamaCare is going to be repealed. The vast majority of people that got insurance under president Obama’s ObamaCare, the affordable care act, got it through Medicaid, so what we have to decide is what can be kept and not kept and that’s part of repeal, but I will make this point, and this is an incredibly important point. Everybody says what are we going to do, going to give these people care. The other question is where are we going to get the money is what I ask? We borrow $1 million a minute. We owe $20 trillion, this enormous debt. My point is we should be honest about it. If Kentucky or Tennessee or Ohio wants to expand Medicaid and they want — they say you have a lot of people struggling. We’re going to help them, that’s fine. Probably we should then raise the taxes on everybody in Kentucky to pay for Medicaid. Instead, we had this deceitfulness that president Obama said it would be free, taken care of 100% by the federal government but we have no money in Washington. You know, we have a $0 trillion debt so it’s not honest account sewing if you want more Medicaid you should say we’ll have to have higher taxes to pay for it."