Steve Lonegan on Health Care

	Steve Lonegan on Health Care

ObamaCare is an absolute train wreck

Booker applauded Obama's Affordable Care Act--better known as "ObamaCare"--and chastised Republicans in Washington for fighting it to the point of forcing a partial shutdown of the federal government. He said the health care overhaul is helping people who have children with diseases that would have been denied coverage under the old system. "ObamaCare needs to be improved, and what we should be doing in Washington is working together (on it)," Booker said. "These are real people's lives." But Lonegan praised Republicans for "holding the line on Obamacare's assault on our freedom" and stressed the need to repeal the law. "This bill is an absolute train wreck," Lonegan said. "If it needs to be improved, why is it being forced down the throa Source: Newark Star-Ledger coverage of 2013 N.J. Senate debate , Oct 5, 2013

Repeal ObamaCare; no middle ground on defending liberty

The pair [of GOP candidates] were more often in agreement than not, leaving little to set them apart. Both want to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Both favor private health centers to care for infirm indigents, both repeatedly used the word "liberty," as something to protect and expand by limiting government.

Lonegan expressed unwillingness to bend. "There is no such thing as a middle ground with the liberal left," Lonegan said. "And there is no middle ground on defending individual liberty. I will not compromise on it.'"

Lonegan later walked back his rhetoric somewhat by saying there were ways to work together with those with opposing views without compromising core principals.

Source: Maplewood Patch coverage of 2013 N.J. Senate debate , Jul 31, 2013

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