Ted Cruz Visits Tyler, Discusses Future of Healthcare

TYLER – Tyler was in the picture as GOP town halls were held across the state Saturday so U.S. senators could discuss Obamacare – and hear concerns and comments from people in their states. KETK reports Senator Ted cruz had a lot to say to health care professionals as he visited the Rose City. He says the country has many problems in the area of healthcare, but there are solutions. He says the first thing to be done to move healthcare in the right direction is to remove Obamacare.

Cruz says people need more choices and lower costs, and that you should be in charge of your healthcare, not the workplace or government. He says it should be personal, portable, and affordable, and go with you from job to job.”I think healthcare reform should expand competition, should expand choice, should expand the marketplace, should empower you the patients to make your own healthcare decisions,” Cruz said. “You and your doctor should be making your healthcare decisions without government getting in the middle of it.”

Senator Cruz says the purpose for Saturday’s meeting was to hear from doctors, nurses, and health care professionals. He says these are the people who know the subject better than him and anyone else. Cruz says he remains optimistic healthcare can improve under the new administration.