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On Thursdays broadcast of the Fox News Channels Your World, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) argued the revised American Health Care Act is the first time that Republicans have affirmatively put their stamp of approval on a program where federal money, taxpayer money, is paid to insurance companies. He later characterized subsidizing insurance companies as deplorable.

Rand said the House Freedom Caucus made the bill a lot less bad. He added, But what Im still concerned with is,thisll the first time that Republicans have affirmatively put their stamp of approval on a program where federal money, taxpayer money, is paid to insurance companies. And it boggles my mind how that became a Republican idea.

Rand further stated,Its going to take a little bit of work to get me to a yes vote, but I do have an open mind. I mean, theres not been a louder voice up here for repealing Obamacare. I really want to repeal it. I just dont want to replace with Obamacare-lite, or another federal program. The programs they put in place will be there forever. So the refundable tax credit, which is a subsidy by another name, will be there forever. And this these buying these high-risk pools they want to create, Republicans used to hate the idea. They hated the idea when they were called risk corridors, and there were giving money to insurance companies. They were bailouts, when it was a Democrat idea. Now that its a Republican idea, they keep sweetening it up.

He later argued that the bill offers people who wont get subsidies anymore Santa Claus-lite.

Randalso said, I want everybody in the individual market to be protected against pre-existing conditions, by getting into the group market, and let market forces work. It can work, but the current bill acknowledges that it doesnt work, and then we just subsidize the insurance companies, which I thinkis deplorable.

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