Clay Aiken says federal health care law is deficient

Source: Raleigh News & Observer

Clay Aiken said the federal health care law is deficient and doesn’t go far enough to address rising health care costs.

The former ‘American Idol’ contestant’s remarks came Thursday as he filed papers to get on the 2014 ballot in the 2nd Congressional District, a seat held now by Republican Renee Ellmers.

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"I don’t think that it’s completely perfect,” he said. “I think there are a whole bunch of things that should be fixed and rough edges that should be smoothed out. I think that’s a problem that Democrats in general have, an inability to recognize the fact that a lot of people do have problems with that particular law. There are a lot of people who have a lot of problems with a lot of parts of it.”

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Asked what he’d fix, he added this: “I think you can take a look at the ratio between the most coverage and the least coverage. It’s at 3 to 1 now and I think we can probably address that disparity so that we can make healthcare less expensive for certain people. I think that there are certainly ways that we need to continue to address rising health care costs and I don’t think that this law goes far enough to address skyrocketing health care costs in general.”

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