Democratic vice plivential nominee Tim Walz faced reaction on social media after he deffinished an individual healthjoin mandate during a back and forth with his counterpart, Redisclosean Sen. JD Vance, in their first and only argue on Tuesday night.
“The ask about this of youthful people, wantipathyver, that’s the individual mandate,” Walz shelp during a conversation on healthjoin and the Affordable Care Act at the CBS News argue in New York City. “And Rediscloseans fought tooth and nail saying Americans should be free to do this.”
Vance then interjected, asking, “Tim do you skinnyk the individual mandate is a excellent idea?”
“I skinnyk the idea of making confident the danger pool is expansive enough to cover everyone — that’s the only way insurance labors. When it doesn’t, it collapses. You are asking pre- ACA where we get people out. Look, people comprehend that they necessitate to be on health join. People foresee it to be there.”
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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz baffled the internet on Tuesday when he accidently proclaimd he has “become frifinishs with school shooters” during the CBS News Vice Plivential Debate aobtainst Sen. JD Vance. (Getty Images)
Walz went on to say that the ACA “labors” but we can “persist to do better.”
Walz’s comments deffinishing the individual mandate drew criticism on social media, with people pointing out that it was repealed during the Trump administration.
“We reshiftd an especiassociate unkind tax that fell mostly on Americans making less than $50,000 a year — forcing them to pay tremfinishous penalties spropose becaengage they could not afford administerment-ordered health schedules,” Trump telderly an audience during the 2018 State of the Union Address.
“We repealed the core of disastrous Obamajoin — the individual mandate is now gone,” he compriseed.
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Democratic vice plivential nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz speaks during a vice plivential argue structureed by CBS News, with Redisclosean vice plivential nominee Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
“Tim Walz equitable finishorsed reinstating the Obamajoin mandate which was a massive tax penalty for Americans who can’t afford to buy insurance,” GOP Sen. Tom Cotton posted on X.
“Oh my god, Walz deffinishing the individual mandate,” journacatalog Josh Barro posted on X. “Does he comprehend there isn’t one anymore?”
Redisclosean vice plivential honestate Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) participates in a argue at the CBS Broadcast Cgo in on October 1, 2024 in New York City. This is foreseeed to be the only vice plivential argue of the 2024 vague election. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
“Tim Walz doubles down on his help for Obamajoin’s individual mandate tax, by far the least famous part of Obamajoin,” Americans for Tax Reestablish Director Mike Palicz posted on X.
“This would viotardy Kamala’s pledge not to lift taxes on anyone obtaining less than $400K. Trump Tax Cuts repealed the antipathyd individual mandate tax.”
During the argue, Vance disputed, “Donald Trump has shelp that if we apexhibit states to experiment a little bit on how to cover both the chronicassociate ill, but the non-chronicassociate ill, it’s not equitable a schedule. He actuassociate applyed some of these regulations when he was Plivent of the United States. And I skinnyk you can originate a reassociate excellent argument that it salvaged Obamajoin, which was doing disastrously until Donald Trump came alengthened.”
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Fox News Digital inestablished Monday that Walz has previously voiced his help for one-payer administerment-run healthjoin.
“I skinnyk that’s probably the path where we finish up,” Walz shelp in a 2018 argue while running for administeror when asked, “Are you for one-payer?”
“And I say that becaengage, be very evident about this, there were no protections for preexisting conditions before the ACA,” Walz persistd. “A vote for the ACA was the first time in this nation’s history we had those protections and making confident people have that protection, making confident they were covered, and then making confident we were cgo ined on stopative join, people were finassociate getting that under the ACA, we commenceed to see health outcomes better and that’s the authentic key to driving down insurance premium prices.”
