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Issue Position: Obamacare

Issue Position

By: Tom Davis
By: Tom Davis
Date: Jan. 1, 2016
Issues: Health and Health Care

The inappropriately titled Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (the ACA) is an infection that endangers not only the effective delivery of health care in our nation, but also our economy and quality of life. In my opinion, South Carolina and other states have an obligation to slow the spread of that infection as best they can until such time as Congress repeals the Affordable Care Act and enacts market-based reforms that will truly expand access to healthcare. South Carolina, and other states, can effectively push back against the ACA by:

* Invoking principle of anti-commandeering
* Rejecting federal funds to enroll people in exchange
* Rejecting ACA-authorized Medicaid expansion
* Prohibiting the creation of a state exchange
* Challenging the illegal implementation of the ACA
* Curbing abuses by ACA navigators
* Protecting our state insurance commissioner's authority

The South Carolina General Assembly is to aggressively pursue all of the other ways in which it can to slow the spread of that infection as best they can until such time as Congress repeals the Affordable Care Act.


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