Trump Research Book: on Health Care
Amy Coney Barrett:
Opposes ObamaCare and its religious exemption
Barrett has been clear on her views towards the Affordable Care Act. She has attacked both SCOTUS decisions that upheld ACA. Barrett took issue with Roberts' interpretation of the mandate saying he pushed it beyond plausible meaning, to save the law.
Barrett believed Scalia's dissent in 2015 was the better legal argument.Barrett also signed a letter to the Obama administration critical of the ACA's religious exemption calling it a "cheap accounting trick," and an "assault on religious liberty."
Source: Analysis of positions in 2020 Trump Research Book
Sep 22, 2020
Mike Pence:
Medicare & Medicaid greatest threat to those under 40
In a The Indianapolis Star letter to the editor Mike Pence wrote, "The most ominous consequence of a universal drug benefit could be that it will usher in the beginning of socialized medicine in America." [Indianapolis Star, 6/26/03]
Pence termed entitlement programs such as Medicare and Medicaid as 'the greatest threat there is to those under the age of 40.'
He said Medicare and Medicaid in their current forms 'threaten the economic vitality of future generations' and are currently 'fraught with waste, fraud and abuse.'
He recommended states be put in charge of Medicaid programs." [Decatur Daily Democrat, 4/28/11]
Source: Trump Research Book on Mike Pence
Sep 22, 2020
Mike Pence:
Big government & candy are more harmful than cigarettes
Despite the hysteria from the political class and the media, smoking doesn't kill. In fact, 2 out of every three smokers does not die from a smoking related illness and 9 out of ten smokers do not contract lung cancer. This is not to say that smoking is
good for you. The relevant question is, what is more harmful to the nation, second hand smoke or back handed big government disguised in do-gooder healthcare rhetoric." [Mike Pence Op-Ed via Wayback Machine, 2001]"Seriously, lung cancer claims too
many lives but the numbers are inconsequential compared to the death toll related to heart disease. What is the main cause of heart disease? Obesity. What single product, when used properly, contributes more to obesity than any other product in
America? Candy! 'But, Mike, (you might say) you can't compare candy and cigarettes.' Oh, can't I?" [Mike Pence Letter To The Editor--Indianapolis Star, 5/18/97]
Source: Trump Research Book on Mike Pence
Sep 22, 2020
Mike Pence:
Pay uninsured $1000 a year to buy health insurance
[Mike Pence for Congress via Wayback Machine, 2000]: "Congress should address the 44 million uninsured working Americans by enacting the Faircare for the Uninsured Act of 1999 (H.R. 2362). Under the Faircare credit, each working adult
(excepting those already covered by an employer plan, those on Medicaid or Medicare) would receive $1000 each year, tax free, to buy health insurance and an additional $500 for each child up to a $1000 for two or more children."
Source: Trump Research Book on Mike Pence
Sep 22, 2020
Brett Kavanaugh:
2011: ObamaCare mandate is essentially a tax
2011: Then-Judge Kavanaugh Wrote A Dissent Arguing Against The Affordable Care Act's Individual Mandate: "In a 2011 case, Seven-Sky v. Holder, the appeals court upheld the individual mandate to buy health insurance, a pillar of the Affordable Care Act.
Kavanaugh wrote a dissent, saying the mandate was essentially a tax and thus outside the court's jurisdiction. This argument later became central when the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the ACA." [NBC News, 7/10/18]
An op-ed by JD Vance in the Wall Street Journal: "Judge Kavanaugh has come under fire in some quarters of the right for challenges against ObamaCare--in which he aimed to rule narrowly and fairly rather than politically. In one, he dissented from an
opinion that upheld the individual mandate. He observed that the individual mandate 'is unprecedented in American history' and cast doubt on its validity under either the Commerce or Taxing clause. " [Wall Street Journal, 7/2/18]
Source: Wall Street Journal in 2024 Trump Research Book
Aug 2, 2024
JD Vance:
Question validity of ObamaCare's individual mandate
2011: Then-Judge Kavanaugh Wrote A Dissent Arguing Against The Affordable Care Act's Individual Mandate: "In a 2011 case, Seven-Sky v. Holder, the appeals court upheld the individual mandate to buy health insurance, a pillar of the Affordable Care Act.
Kavanaugh wrote a dissent, saying the mandate was essentially a tax and thus outside the court's jurisdiction. This argument later became central when the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the ACA." [NBC News, 7/10/18]
An op-ed by JD Vance in the Wall Street Journal: "Judge Kavanaugh has come under fire in some quarters of the right for challenges against ObamaCare--in which he aimed to rule narrowly and fairly rather than politically. In one, he dissented from an
opinion that upheld the individual mandate. He observed that the individual mandate 'is unprecedented in American history' and cast doubt on its validity under either the Commerce or Taxing clause. " [Wall Street Journal, 7/2/18]
Source: Wall Street Journal in 2024 Trump Research Book
Aug 2, 2024
JD Vance:
Repeal and replace the ObamaCare disaster
2022: According to the Chronicle-Telegram, "Asked a question related to healthcare, Vance said 'Obamacare was a disaster' but it must be repealed and replaced by something with 'some substance to it, or we are going to get creamed electorally and
we're not actually going to do that job that the people sent us to do." [Chronicle-Telegram, 2/2/22]2010: According to a letter to the editor by J.D. Hamel
[Vance's childhood name and social media pseudonym] in the Butler County Journal-News, "Our system has its troubles, but the biggest of them is spending.
Because Obama-Care does nothing to reduce the inflationary trend of medical costs, it is an abject failure of a reform package. That's why most conservatives opposed it." [Letter to the Editor by JD Hamel--Butler County Journal-News, 4/8/10]
Source: 2024 Trump Research Book
Aug 2, 2024
JD Vance:
Medicare-for-All is a big handout to wealthy hospitals
Vance on Fox News: "The Democratic Party increasingly represents professional class elites. And Republicans represent middle- and working-class wage earners. Democratic leaders kind of get this. Look at the big proposals from the 2020 Democratic
presidential candidates: universal child care, debt-free college, even Medicare-for-All, which is framed as this lurch to the left, but is really just a big handout to doctors and pharmaceutical companies and hospitals.'" [via YouTube, 7/5/19]
Source: 2024 Trump Research Book
Aug 2, 2024
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