Issue Position: Health Care

Issue Position

Washington has made a mess of our health care system. The federal government's decades-long intrusion into health care culminated in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, aka "Obamacare."

Cancelled insurance policies, higher premiums, deductibles, co-payments, wasteful and confusing mandates and uncertain coverage status are hurting our constituents. And this is just the beginning. The human toll of Obamacare is great and growing.

The good news is we took steps to prepare for Obamacare's failure. Utah joined seven other states and approved the Health Care Compact, legislation that allows states to take control of health care regulation and funding -- and opt-out of Obamacare..

The Health Care Compact won't deliver a single set of mandates that apply to all, from sea to shining sea. Instead, the structure of the health care system will vary from state to state. Some states will choose to push market-oriented mechanisms. Others could remain in the federal program at their option.

Utah is ready, willing, and able to clean up the mess created by Washington, D.C. Congress needs to give its consent, and allow Utah and the other states that have joined the Health Care Compact with us to take control of health care regulation and funding within our states.

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