2018 MT Senate race: on Health Care


Jon Tester: I won't give up on repealing & replacing ObamaCare

Q: Support or Repeal Affordable Care Act (ACA), known as ObamaCare? Position on Medicaid expansion?

Matt Rosendale (R): Repeal. "I won't give up on repealing & replacing ObamaCare." Voted against MT Medicaid expansion.

Jon Tester (D): Support. Not perfect, but has helped rural hospitals & health centers, provided families with coverage, & stopped big insurance companies from denying folks coverage. Supports Medicaid expansion.

Source: 2018 CampusElect.org Issue Guide on Montana Senate race Oct 9, 2018

Albert Olszewski: Repeal and replace Obamacare, with bipartisan approach

As a physician and a legislator, my strategy for reforming our healthcare system consists of three parts:
  1. Immediate healthcare regulation reform.
  2. Repeal of the Affordable Care Act.
  3. The development of a new healthcare system utilizing a bipartisan approach.
    Source: 2018 Montana Senatorial website AlForSenate.us Oct 1, 2017

    Albert Olszewski: Repeal and replace Obamacare with bipartisan approach

    As a physician and a legislator, my strategy for reforming our healthcare system consists of three parts:
    Source: 2018 Montana Senate campaign website AlForSenate.us Aug 8, 2017

    Matt Rosendale: Full repeal of Obamacare

    Democrats have attacked Rosendale on his support for a full repeal of Obamacase. Said Montana Democratic spokesman Chris Meagher, "Matt Rosendale has failed at his job as insurance commissioner, and has done nothing to keep health care costs down," Meagher said. "He's another vote to increase health care costs and take away health care from thousands of Montanans. He's another politician interfering with a woman's right to make her own health care decisions."
    Source: Helena Independent Record on 2018 Montana Senate race Jul 31, 2017

    Albert Olszewski: Halt expansion of Medicaid; halt ObamaCare unfunded mandates

    While Olszewski remains opposed to ObamaCare and voted against Montana's expansion of Medicaid last session, he said Republican efforts in Congress to replace the federal health-care law with the American Health Care Act--a measure lawmakers ultimately withdrew--were misguided.

    "The intent was good but it missed the mark," he said. "It didn't do anything to touch the very complex network of regulations. What is killing me as an independent business owner are the regulations and unfunded mandates."

    Source: Flathead Beacon on 2018 Montana Senate race Apr 11, 2017

    Albert Olszewski: ObamaCare is imploding; shore up healthcare system

    Olszewski said, "Health care is in a struggle to decide what it's going to do in the 21st Century," he said. "Private health insurance is very unstable. And we're really at an area where ObamaCare is imploding. What we need to do is, we need to find a way to shore up, or fix the health-care system, so it doesn't collapse around us."

    [Olszewski opposed the unsuccessful Republican efforts in Congress to replace ObamaCare with the American Health Care Act as well-intended but "misguided".]

    Source: KTVQ on 2018 Montana Senate race Apr 11, 2017

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