In March 2010, President Barack Obama signed into law the healthcare reform bill known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
The major candidates currently running for President in 2012 have each spoken about repealing President Obama’s plan and introducing more competition into the healthcare industry.
Here is a quick breakdown of what each candidate has had to say about our nation’s healthcare system…
• “Obama-care is the greatest intrusion on individual freedom in a generation. This budget-busting, government takeover of health care will rob half a billion dollars from Medicare and saddle America with massive tax hikes and higher costs in the long term.”
• “The first thing the new President needs to do is abolish Obamacare.”
• “Allow the states to compete.”
• “Every state is different. The idea that you can make one size fits all healthcare is nonsense.”
• “My number one priority is to repeal Obamacare.”
• “I will work to unleash the power of medical innovation and personal choices.”
• “More ingenuity, more options and more competition – not more bureaucracy and control from Washington.”
• “Over $105 billion in funding was buried in the Obamacare legislation.”
• “It’s the failure of the free market to exist- that is our problem. It isn’t the fact that we don’t have enough government. We have way too much government.”
• “It’s a fallacy to say that people have a right to healthcare. That’s a form of socialism, and socialism doesn’t work.”
• “We shouldn’t be forced by the government into a program- we ought to have the right to opt out.”
• Favors tax cuts, medical savings accounts, and working to reduce medical malpractice lawsuits.
• “States and private markets, not the federal government, hold the key to improving our health care system.”
• “Our next president must repeal Obamacare and replace it with market-based reforms that empower states and individuals and reduce health care costs.”
• “Expand tax deductions to include those who buy their own health insurance.”
• “Reform the broken medical liability system” (limit medical malpractice suits)
I feel so sorry for you guys not having access to free healthcare when you need it. We take it for granted in the UK, I hope Obama does make a difference.
It is unfortunate that you did not publish what our President had to say about the Affordable Care Act. It is also troubling that the Lehrman Group cannot get behind our president to make important changes to our health care system that would benefit all and not just the insurance companies and a few special interest groups.
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This article was written because we thought it would be interesting to show these candidate’s viewpoints. The President’s view was not included simply because we thought it was already well known. We did not endorse anybody here. Sorry if you took offense.
I think the entire country knows exactly what Mr Obama’s stance is on health insurance and health care. I thank you, Lehrman Group, for providing these candidate’s alternative ideas.