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Ted Cruz presidential campaign, 2016/Healthcare

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Ted Cruz suspended his presidential campaign on May 3, 2016.[1]


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Former presidential candidate
Ted Cruz
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  • At the eighth Republican presidential primary debate on February 6, 2016, Ted Cruz discussed repealing Obamacare: "Socialized medicine is a disaster. It does not work. If you look at the countries that have imposed socialized medicine, that have put the government in charge of providing medicine, what inevitably happens is rationing. … If I'm elected president, we will repeal every word of Obamacare. And once we do that, we will adopt common sense reforms, number one, we'll allow people to purchase health insurance across state lines that will drive down prices and expand the availability of low cost catastrophic insurance. We'll expand health savings accounts; and we will de-link health insurance from employment so that you don't lose your health insurance when you lose your job, and that way health insurance can be personal, portable and affordable and we keep government from getting in between us and our doctors."[2]
  • Cruz said on January 10, 2016, that he would not repeal Obamacare on his first day in office because he would not have the constitutional authority to do so. “The only way to end it is to repeal that statute … we will repeal Obamacare, but unlike Obama, I don’t intend as president to be — to use his word — an emperor,” Cruz said.[3]
  • While discussing his healthcare platform at the Voters First Forum on August 3, 2015, Cruz said, "I've been proud to lead the fight to stop Obamacare in the United States Senate, against the Washington cartel. And there are a lot of politicians in Washington that have largely given up. They don't believe Obamacare can ever be repealed, including, sadly, a fair number of Republicans. I don't believe that. I intend to make 2016 a referendum on repealing Obamacare, and if I'm elected president, we will repeal every word of Obamacare and we'll pass commonsense health insurance reform to make health insurance personal and portable and affordable."[5]
  • In March 2015, Cruz sponsored S 647 - Health Care Choice Act as an alternative to the Affordable Care Act.[6] According to Cruz's website, the 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."[7]
  • Cruz sponsored S 339 - ObamaCare Repeal Act in February 2015.[8]
  • Cruz sponsored S 1292 - Defund Obamacare Act of 2013.[10]
  • Cruz sponsored S 177 - ObamaCare Repeal Act in January 2013.[11]

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Politico, "Ted Cruz drops out of presidential race," May 3, 2016
  2. ↑ The Washington Post, "Transcript of the New Hampshire GOP debate, annotated," February 6, 2016
  3. ↑ Politico, "Cruz: I won't be 'an emperor,'" January 10, 2016
  4. ↑ CBS News, "Senate passes Obamacare repeal bill," December 3, 2015
  5. ↑ CNS News, "Sen. Ted Cruz: 'I Intend to Make 2016 a Referendum on Repealing Obamacare,'" August 4, 2015
  6. ↑ Congress.gov, "S.647," accessed March 5, 2015
  7. ↑ Cruz.Senate.gov, "Sen. Cruz Introduces the Health Care Choice Act," accessed March 5, 2015
  8. ↑ Congress.gov, "S.339," accessed March 5, 2015
  9. ↑ Politico, "Ted Cruz ends marathon speech," September 24, 2013
  10. ↑ Congress.gov, "S.1292," accessed March 5, 2015
  11. ↑ Congress.gov, "S.177," accessed March 5, 2015
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