California GOP Recall Candidate Larry Elder Wanted To End Medicaid
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In 2010, Elder said he was also against mandating that insurance companies cover people with preexisting conditions.
Larry Elder, the Republican front-runner in the campaign to recall California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), has advocated abolishing Medicaid and has opposed making health insurance companies cover people with preexisting conditions, extreme positions even further to the right of many in the GOP. Elder put forward his views in 2010 when he outlined his vision for a new “contract with America” ― a set of governing principles for the GOP. One of his proposals was to end Medicaid, the federal-state health insurance program targeted toward helping low-income and disabled individuals. “Grandfather everyone currently on Medicaid, and then admit no more people and end the program at the federal level,” he wrote. “Charity is not allowed by the Constitution, and it should be left to the states — even better, left to the private and nonprofit sectors.”More Related News