Heartland Institute Experts Comment on Senate GOP Health Care Reform Bill
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The following statements from health care policy experts at
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"States laboring under the yoke of Obamacare mandates will gain a new master, but little else under the
"Congressional
Research Fellow, Health Care Policy
Managing Editor,
mhamilton(at)heartland(dot)org 312/377-4000
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"This bill zeroes out the penalties for not buying an unaffordable, undesirable product (the individual and employer mandates), but continues the mandates that make health plans unaffordable: guaranteed issue, community rating, and restrictions on true insurance.
"The bill redistributes wealth, continuing the funding of the swamp. The right answer is to repeal Obamacare and replace it with a free market. For problems that result, seek targeted solutions. If this bill passes, individuals and states need to make maximal use of escape hatches."
Jane M. Orient, M.D. Executive Director
janeorientmd(at)gmail(dot)com 520/323-3110
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"Reforming Obamacare forces on us the stark reality that in lawmaking, perfection gives way to imperfection; but at least, it moves in the right direction. The
"Creating a free market for health care remains elusive. It is incumbent on us who believe in individual liberty and responsibility to keep working to advance marketplace reforms – such as direct-pay independent practice, reference-based payments for care, health savings accounts (HSAs), and other such devices."
Policy Advisor, Health Care
media(at)heartland(dot)org 312/377-4000
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"The
Senior Fellow,
Policy Advisor,
devon.herrick(at)ncpa(dot)org 972/308-6470
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"My biggest disappointment is that we may be squandering a truly once-in-a-generation opportunity to restructure the incentives of our health care system. Instead of focusing the incentives back on the patient, this bill focuses on insurance subsidizes rather than subsidizing the provision of actual care. By doing so, we perpetuate the false argument that the end goal is simply possessing insurance policies instead of making care affordable and attainable – which insurance, counter-intuitively, actually makes more difficult to achieve."
Founder, YourChoice Direct Care
Policy Advisor, Health Care Policy
chad.savage(at)yourchoicedirectcare(dot)com 810/224-5300
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"Obamacare's Medicaid expansion was an expansion of a system that encourages states to waste money at the expense of the federal taxpayer – and a lot spent on no patient care at all. If better health care outcomes is truly the desired result of policy makers, then Medicaid should be severely shrunk, not expanded.
"Multiple studies have shown that Medicaid recipients have worse health care outcomes than those who are uninsured. The quicker the Medicaid expansion is eliminated, the less taxpayer money is wasted, and the better health care for the poor."
Policy Advisor,
ggianoli(at)gmail(dot)com
985/809-1111
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"Both the
"Until the role of third parties is reduced, and consumer-driver downward pressure is brought to bear on health care costs, the problem will not be solved."
Mike Koriwchak, M.D.
Vice President
Policy Advisor,
mjk.d4pcf(at)gmail(dot)com 312/377-4000
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"The
Health Care Policy Analyst, Washington Policy Center
Policy Advisor,
rstark(at)washingtonpolicy(dot)org 25/881-0611
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"The
Policy Advisor,
ebs(at)commonwealthfoundation(dot)org 717/798-9784
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"This legislation is a small step in the right direction. Repealing the individual mandate by making the fine
"Obamacare has taught us that attempting to pay for care via a variety of mechanisms does not really increase access. If we want to increase access, the more effective way to do this is to lower the cost of care. Costs fall when physicians and hospitals jump off the third party payment hamster wheel and focus on providing care to the patient in a low overhead environment. When patients start asking physicians, 'How much does it cost?', and physicians are willing to answer this question in a rational way, then access will actually increase."
General Counsel and VP of Clinical Development
Proactive MD
Policy Advisor,
philsq(at)gmail(dot)com
864/501-0751
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"The bill is a disappointment. It's little more than repeal in name only. And its ideas for replacement are almost indistinguishable from the Obamacare status quo. Within hours of the bill's release, four Republican senators –
"McConnell and company can only blame themselves for this predicament.
President and CEO,
Policy Advisor,
spipes(at)pacificresearch(dot)org 415/955-6100
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