Cory Gardner wants to get rid of Obamacare. But it’s not clear what he plans to replace it with – By Jesse Paul (The Colorado Sun) / Sept 2 2020
The Republican senator from Colorado talks more often about what he doesn’t want — Obamacare, a public option, Medicare For All — than his ideas on how to achieve his goals of driving down costs and improving care
Cory Gardner doesn’t like Obamacare.
Ask the Republican senator from Colorado about how to improve health care and the first response you’re likely to hear is that President Barack Obama’s signature 2010 Affordable Care Act needs to be repealed. It’s “destroying this country,” he once said.
Ask Gardner for his plans to replace the law, however, and his response will probably be more about what he’s against — Democratic proposals for a public health insurance option or “Medicare for All” — than what he’s working toward.
“Democrats want to replace the Affordable Care Act with socialized medicine,” Gardner said in an interview. “I don’t want that.”
But if Gardner and congressional Republicans have a better idea, they haven’t shared it.
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