Senator Marshall: Healthcare is in A Crisis
Senator Marshall Joins Newsmax to Discuss America’s Healthcare Crisis
Washington – On Wednesday, U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-Kansas), joined Rob Schmitt Tonight on Newsmax to discuss the Republicans’ healthcare plan and America’s healthcare crisis.
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On the Crapo-Cassidy healthcare plan:
“Well, I think it’s a great step in the right direction, thanks to many instances because of Obamacare, healthcare is in a crisis, and what we want to do is put patients in charge, not insurance companies. So what Obamacare does, among other things, is send $150 billion a year to insurance companies. We want to take a small portion of that amount of money and put it in your health care savings account so you can make choices. We want to give you choices, put you in control, and we think that’s going to drive down the cost of healthcare for everybody.”
On the problem with Obamacare:
“I think it’s the complexity – remember Nancy Pelosi saying ‘we need to pass the bill so we can read what’s in it.’ But there are just layers and layers of complexity, and it allows hospitals, insurance companies, and pharmacy benefit managers to hide the true cost of things. So that’s why we want to pair this with putting money in a health care savings account, plus price tags. We want patients to become consumers again. We want patients to see what the actual prices are. We believe that if we would add the price tags to this bill, it would save the country a trillion dollars a year. That’s not me saying that. 40 economists say that if we give patients price tags, we make them consumers, and it will save $1,000 a month per family. So I think it’s the complexity. I think it’s the way insurance companies and hospitals hide the true cost of healthcare.”
On the overall health of Americans:
“Yeah, it is that America, to be all honest, is a sick nation. We have what? 30% of Americans have a chronic disease, and we’re spending about 90% of our dollars on those chronic diseases like diabetes and heart disease, those basic, basic things as well. So we are a sick nation. Part of you wants me to balance the budget; we need to solve this riddle. Part of it is making patients consumers, again, part of it is making patients healthier as well, a little healthier diet, a little more exercise, those types”
“Well, we’re going to keep fighting. Look, we look. Obama gave us these problems. We’re trying to fix it. We’re going to keep pushing our price tags bill. We got good bipartisan support, so I’m going to keep in there fighting.”
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