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→2016 Election Candidates’ Positions on the ACA
The four remaining Republican candidates in the 2016 Presidential Election, Ted Cruz, John Kasich, Marco Rubio, and Donald Trump are largely united on the issue of health care reform in that they all have plans to appeal the Affordable Care Act if elected President, opting for free market tactics in the health insurance industry – allowing individuals and employers to continue to opt in or out of privately offered health insurance. The Republican Candidates promise to expand coverage, improve health care quality, lower drug and other medical costs, and even increase transparency in the health care market [https://ballotpedia.org/2016_presidential_candidates_on_healthcare].
Meanwhile on the other end of the political spectrum, Democratic Candidate Bernie Sanders goes so far as to say that he wants to expand the ACA into a Medicaid-for-all system, which could completely remove employer-sponsored health care from the equation. Democratic Candidate Secretary Hillary Clinton has been an advocate of universal health care ever since she proposed her own health care reform plan in the 90’s and is now running with the intention of defending and building upon the ACA. In an interview with AOL.com on January 27, 2016, she expressed that
“Health care is a basic right. We are 90 percent covered, we gotta get to 100 percent, and then we gotta get cost down and make it work for everybody. And even though we didn't get it then, we've got it now and I'm going to defend it and improve it" [https://ballotpedia.org/2016_presidential_candidates_on_healthcare].
