2014 TN Senate debate: on Health Care

Gordon Ball: ObamaCare is over the top, but keep the good parts

The Affordable Healthcare Act has a number of good provisions:

Ending the practice of insurance companies denying people with preexisting conditions
Allowing young people to stay on their parents' insurance until age 26
Providing tax breaks for small businesses who provide health care
Preventing insurance discrimination against women

We cannot roll back these and other necessary provisions, because they are too important for American families. However, any legislation that is over 2,200 pages long and is administered by the IRS is, from its inception, way over-the-top. We must fix this, retaining provisions that benefit citizens and throwing out the bad ones. It is inconceivable to me that anyone in Congress read all of this bill before it was passed. Source: 2014 Tennessee Senate campaign website, GordonBallSenate.com Aug 7, 2014

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