Democratic vice plivential nominee Tim Walz faced reaction on social media after he deffinished an individual healthinclude 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 said during a conversation on healthinclude 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 certain the hazard 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 understand that they necessitate to be on health include. People foresee it to be there.”
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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz baffled the internet on Tuesday when he accidently declared he has “become frifinishs with school shooters” during the CBS News Vice Plivential Debate agetst 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comments deffinishing the individual mandate drew criticism on social media, with people pointing out that it was repealed during the Trump administration.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 omitd an especiassociate unkind tax that fell mostly on Americans making less than $50,000 a year — forcing them to pay tremfinishous penalties srecommend because they could not afford handlement-ordered health set ups,” Trump tancigo in an audience during the 2018 State of the Union Address.
“We repealed the core of disastrous ObamaCare — the individual mandate is now gone,” he compriseed.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 presented by CBS News, with Redisclosean vice plivential nominee Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024, in New York. (AP Ptoastyo/Matt Rourke)
“Tim Walz fair finishorsed reinstating the Obamainclude 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 understand there isn’t one anymore?”
Redisclosean vice plivential honestate Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) joins 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 aid for Obamainclude’s individual mandate tax, by far the least famous part of Obamainclude,” Americans for Tax Recreate Director Mike Palicz posted on X.
“This would viodefercessitate Kamala’s pledge not to elevate taxes on anyone geting less than $400K. Trump Tax Cuts repealed the antipathyd individual mandate tax.”
During the argue, Vance disputed, “Donald Trump has said that if we permit states to experiment a little bit on how to cover both the chronicassociate ill, but the non-chronicassociate ill, it’s not fair a set up. He actuassociate carry outed some of these regulations when he was plivent of the United States. And I skinnyk you can produce a reassociate excellent argument that it salvaged ObamaCare, which was doing disastrously until Donald Trump came aprolonged.”
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Fox News Digital increateed Monday that Walz has previously voiced his aid for individual-payer handlement-run healthinclude.
“I skinnyk that’s probably the path where we finish up,” Walz said in a 2018 argue while running for handleor when asked, “Are you for individual-payer?”
“And I say that because, be very evident about this, there were no acquireions 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 acquireions and making certain people have that acquireion, making certain they were covered, and then making certain we were cgo ined on stopative include, 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.”
