Scott Walker’s Big ‘Obamacare’ Reveal

Scott Walker Leaves Door Open To State Mandates If Supreme Court Overturns ACA

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said Thursday that Republicans should find ways to ensure that people with pre-existing conditions can still purchase health care if the Supreme Court throws out the Affordable Care Act, a critical part of President Obama’s health reforms that experts say is nearly impossible to maintain without mandates.

“Whether it’s done through the Affordable Care Act or done separate from that with Congress and the states — I think that things that allow you to go over state lines, certain things in terms of guaranteed issue and things of that nature,” Walker said at a breakfast in Washington, D.C. hosted by the Christian Science Monitor. “I think there are good elements. I just don’t think you need the federal government to do most of those things.”

Walker said that it was possible to keep “guaranteed issue,” in which patients are guaranteed the ability to purchase coverage, but without a national requirement that Americans maintain health insurance.

“Certainly not a federal mandate,” Walker. “I think those are debates people can have at the state level.”

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