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RandySF

(58,786 posts)
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 02:56 AM Sep 2020

CO-SEN: Gardner wants to get rid of Obamacare. But it's not clear what he plans to replace it with.

Cory Gardner doesn’t like Obamacare.

Ask the Republican senator from Colorado about how to improve health care and the first response you’re likely to hear is that President Barack Obama’s signature 2010 Affordable Care Act needs to be repealed. It’s “destroying this country,” he once said.

Ask Gardner for his plans to replace the law, however, and his response will probably be more about what he’s against — Democratic proposals for a public health insurance option or “Medicare for All” — than what he’s working toward.

“Democrats want to replace the Affordable Care Act with socialized medicine,” Gardner said in an interview. “I don’t want that.”

But if Gardner and congressional Republicans have a better idea, they haven’t shared it.

President Donald Trump has spoken of coming legislation, but part of the problem has been GOP infighting over how to move forward. That killed the party’s chance to unwind the Affordable Care Act in 2017, as they’d vowed to do for years, when Republicans took control of Congress and the White House. “We haven’t kept our promise,” Gardner said last year.



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CO-SEN: Gardner wants to get rid of Obamacare. But it's not clear what he plans to replace it with. (Original Post) RandySF Sep 2020 OP
Replace sen gardner with John Hickenlooper. Cha Sep 2020 #1
They never had any intention of a replacement Freddie Sep 2020 #2
There is no replacement. onecaliberal Sep 2020 #3
They want to replace it with another tax cut for the very wealthy Buckeyeblue Sep 2020 #4
They plan on replacing it with the aca. They want to completely repeal it then re-introduce it Fullduplexxx Sep 2020 #5

Freddie

(9,265 posts)
2. They never had any intention of a replacement
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 03:18 AM
Sep 2020

They just want to go back to the “old way”, when insurance companies and employers had ALL the power, and you had none.

onecaliberal

(32,831 posts)
3. There is no replacement.
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 03:48 AM
Sep 2020

Just like there is no plan to stop 1000 people a day or more from dying of covid.

Fullduplexxx

(7,860 posts)
5. They plan on replacing it with the aca. They want to completely repeal it then re-introduce it
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 07:55 AM
Sep 2020

As trumpcare

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