Democratic U.S. Senate nominee and former North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper used a Tuesday appearance on MSNBCs election coverage to renew his call for more federal intervention in healthcare, insisting that additional subsidies are needed to prop up the Affordable Care Act.
According to Breitbart, Cooper claimed that ACA subsidies are necessary because weve lost so many people on the Affordable Care Act who can no longer afford it, and people who are there are having to pay more for policies with higher deductibles.
His remarks underscore a familiar Democratic prescription: rather than addressing the structural failures and cost-driving mandates embedded in Obamacare, the answer is framed as yet another layer of taxpayer-funded support.
Cooper announced a new campaign initiative aimed at reframing the debate over rising prices. Im going to start, tomorrow, a make stuff cost less tour, and Im going to be rolling out my policy ideas to the people of North Carolina about what Washington can do to help reduce costs for people, instead of making them go up, he said.
He went on to blame insurers and the current policy environment in Washington for the financial strain facing consumers.
[W]e must get back to making sure that we are fighting the insurance companies who are making healthcare cost more, restoring these subsidies, because weve lost so many people on the Affordable Care Act who can no longer afford it, and people who are there are having to pay more for policies with higher deductibles, Cooper argued, adding that Everything Washington is doing is making costs go up for North Carolinians instead of working for them to go down.
Cooper promised more detailed proposals in the coming days, again centering federal action as the primary solution.
And thats what Im going to be talking about. There are some things that we can do, and I look forward to rolling it out. Were going to talk about, next week, healthcare, he said, signaling a campaign that will likely double down on the same big-government healthcare model that has already driven premiums and deductibles higher for many families.
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