Sen. Cruz Leading the Fight on Healthcare Reform
"I believe we're poised for this to be the most productive congress in decades. The first and the most important is we must honor our promise and repeal Obamacare,"
Video of the Senator's remarks may be viewed here https://youtu.be/3NVrQ7HQGoo.
Excerpts of the Senator's op-ed are below. Full article may be viewed here https://www.wsj.com/articles/three-criteria-for-health-reform-1489618565.
Three Criteria for Health Reform
By: Sen.
After years of talk, we know that the Republican repeal-and-replace effort will soon be judged by three criteria: Does it make health care more affordable? Does it give consumers more choices? Does it provide Americans more control over their families' health care?
As of now, the House's bill neither fully repeals ObamaCare nor passes these three tests. Yet there's a path forward--if the administration and
First, we must lower insurance premiums. Nothing matters more. The current House bill would not achieve this, because it doesn't repeal all of ObamaCare's insurance mandates. Of the few it addresses, the bill delays their repeal. We must abolish ObamaCare's mandates immediately; Americans need relief from higher premiums and cannot wait until 2020 or beyond.
We cannot give voters a procedural excuse for why we couldn't get the job done. Some have argued, incorrectly, that the
We should follow the text of the Budget Act, which establishes the reconciliation process. Fully repealing the insurance mandates would comply with both the letter and the spirit of the statute. More important, the Senate parliamentarian does not ultimately determine what is allowable under reconciliation. That authority falls to the Senate and the vice president, the chamber's presiding officer. As the former Senate parliamentarian
Second, we shouldn't replace ObamaCare's subsidies with yet another health-care entitlement. Instead, we should implement nonrefundable tax credits, which can be deducted from payroll taxes for lower earners. Anyone who gets a paycheck has a large amount withheld by payroll taxes. Thus, this nonrefundable credit would benefit lower-income individuals by letting them keep more of what they earn.
Third, ObamaCare's
During the phaseout, we should implement work requirements for healthy working-age adults in the
We should also implement true
Read this original document at: https://www.cruz.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=3038
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