Rand Paul: Obamacare Death Spiral Could Get Worse Under GOP Health Care Bill

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Rand Paul told CNN that the death spiral of Obamacare could be worsened under the Senate GOP’s health care bill.

In his interview with CNN’s Ana Cabrera, Paul railed against the Senate GOP’s bill for numerous things, such as allowing people to purchase health care after they get sick, and the burden of responsibility for younger people due to increased regulations on what the policies will be required to cover, explained the Blaze.

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Transcript from the Blaze:

“When you mandate what you have to cover, you increase the price, you price out the young healthy people,” Paul said, “and the only people left in the insurance market get sicker and sicker. It’s what they call adverse selection.”

Paul called this the “death spiral of Obamacare.”

“My problem with the Senate bill as it currently exists is that we don’t fix that,” Paul said. ” We keep 10 of 12 of the Obamacare regulations, we still keep the idea that you can buy it after you get sick, so I’m concerned that the death spiral of Obamacare may well even get worse with the Republican version.”

Paul was one of 5 GOP senators to defect from Senate GOP leadership’s bill, ultimately leading to the curbing of a vote to pass the legislation.