Sen. Rand Paul: Obamacare Outlawed Inexpensive Insurance Policies
By Sandy Fitzgerald
27 Oct 2016
Obamacare makes it "illegal" to purchase inexpensive insurance policies that allow consumers to pay lower costs for policies that have high premiums, and it is "insensitive" for the White House and Democrats to tell Americans to "take it or leave it," Sen. Rand Paul said Thursday.
"I think it's kind of insensitive of the Obamacare people to say, 'Oh, well, prices are going up. These are just one of those things,'" the Kentucky Republican told Fox News' "America's Newsroom."
Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber told CNN on Wednesday the law is working as designed and there is "no sense in which it needs to be fixed," but it could work better if there was a "larger mandate penalty" that would not allow people to wait until they get sick before they get insurance, RealClearPolitics reported.
However, Paul said the real problem is Obamacare's marketplaces are not truly open ones that allow insurance companies to sell just any insurance policy.
"The one thing about Obamacare that's not mentioned enough is that Obamacare actually makes it illegal to sell inexpensive insurance," Paul, who is a ophthalmologic surgeon, told Fox News' Bill Hemmer.
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