Jason Lewis and Angie Craig spar over health care and taxes in first debate
Appearing on
Craig, a former medical device company executive, said the bill the Republican-controlled
The new law would have allowed insurance companies to deny coverage to people with pre-existing health conditions, she said, and she asserted that Lewis is "not willing to stand up to the president" when the Trump administration went to court to allow states to permit insurers to refuse to cover consumers with chronic health problems.
You're wrong, Lewis responded. The bill
But Lewis said the individual mandate provisions in the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, caused skyrocketing insurance premiums.
"We want to set the rates lower so young and healthy people get back into the pool to subsidize the old, the sick and the infirm," he said.
Asked about Medicare, the federal insurance program for seniors, Craig said she does not support Sen.
Lewis accused her of flip-flopping on the issue. He said she once advocated a government-controlled "single payer" health insurance system but now says she's against it. As for the "buy-in" proposal she now favors, he said it "will end Medicare as we know it for seniors."
Not true, Craig fired back. "Having healthier people in Medicare would strengthen it," she said.
Their contest is a rematch of the 2016 election in the south suburban
The two candidates also fired broadsides at each over tax cuts. Lewis touted the tax reductions he voted for and
Craig said the law provides huge tax breaks for the rich and so little for average taxpayers that most people haven't noticed them. She said she favors lowering taxes "for the middle class and small businesses."
The candidates will face off again Sunday afternoon in a debate on
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