Jeanne Shaheen’s Obamacare fix: Appoint a committee

Published October 22, 2014 1:24pm ET



With the midterms less than two weeks away, liberal commentators have put a lot of heat on Republican candidates who advocate repealing Obamacare but don’t have a fully-formed plan to replace it. There’s been less attention to Democrats who pledge to “fix” the president’s troubled healthcare overhaul. What, specifically, would they fix? Tuesday’s Senate debate in New Hampshire, between incumbent Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen and GOP challenger Scott Brown, was a textbook case of a Democrat promising to fix Obamacare without offering much in the way of actual fixes.

Shaheen stood behind her vote for the Affordable Care Act, arguing that “We don’t want to go back to a time when health insurance companies could determine what kind of care people get.” Then moderator Chuck Todd asked, “What is a ‘fix bill’ you would like to introduce?” This is what Shaheen had to say:

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