Senator Marshall: We Will Have a Healthcare Bill Ready the First Week of December
Senator Marshall Joins Newsmax to Discuss the Republican Health Care Plan
Washington – On Wednesday, U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-Kansas), joined Rob Schmitt on Newsmax to discuss Democrats’ failed ACA subsidies and lay out Republicans’ health care plan.
Click HERE or on the image above to watch Senator Marshall’s full interview.
On Republicans’ plan to fix Democrats’ failed ACA subsidies:
“Yeah, so Rob, the great news is the Democrats are finally admitting that Obamacare is an abstract failure. They’re admitting that the premiums have more than doubled. A family of four with a $15,000 deductible that’s making $80,000 a year is not access to health care. So, the good news is, maybe they’re ready to fix it. But for 15 years, Obamacare has been the law of the land. They own this. This is an opportunity for Republicans to fix it and jump to solutions. There are two basic principles that we want to use. Number one is we want to make patients consumers again; so let’s take that $150 billion we are giving insurance companies, let’s give it to patients, and let them decide how they want to spend those dollars. Whether you want to spend it on your optometrist, your dentist, on eyeglasses, [or] on physical therapy, you get to decide. And the second piece of this is our price tags bill that we would force every hospital, surgery center, imaging center lab to show you the price before you choose how you’re to spend that money. We think those two things alone will drive down the cost of premiums and the true cost of health care.”
On over-regulation is the health care system:
“Yeah, Rob, I would just talk about the overregulation in general. When this bill was rolled out, I remember sitting in the doctor’s lounge, and people say, number one, this bill was written by the insurance companies, because they’re getting direct stipends. And the other issue was we saw this overregulation, that we knew that we’d be taking nurses off the floor and turning them into data entry people. That small doctors’ offices, small hospitals couldn’t survive this. So, this is but one rule that they created that led to monopolies. Overregulation leads to consolidation of industries, and that’s driving prices up. I want everyone to have meaningful access to health care if they have preexisting conditions. Let’s set up some type of reinsurance program to help those folks out as well, and that I know will drive the cost of health premiums down 15%.”
On a timeline for the Republican healthcare plan:
“Look, we’re going to have a bill ready for the second week in December. The Democrats want their bill to extend the Biden-era covid subsidies. We need a side-by-side bill. It won’t be perfect. It’ll have the things I just mentioned, taking that $150 billion that we’re giving insurance companies to give part of that to patients, our price tag bill as well, and maybe a couple other pieces. I think the next real deadline is January the 30th, and that’s when the funding for the government ends. So maybe by then we’ll have a bipartisan solution that actually is going to put some teeth into the problem.”
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