Sen. Paul: Turning the Power of Big Insurance on Its Head With the Power of the Group
What if I told you that much of what was attempted through ObamaCare could actually happen if the government could go the opposite direction and get more out of the way in the area of health insurance?
If you have insurance through a large employer, say,
Competition is key to health reform. We need the consumers to be the King, and government not to act like a dictator.
The idea for health associations has been around for a while, but poor decisions by power-hungry bureaucrats have left them largely impotent and difficult to organize and receive approval for.
With
I've discussed it with him multiple times, and my staff is working with the secretary of Labor and his staff to come up with how to make this work. It is very clear the original language of the law allows for far more wide-reaching groups than the
So today, I am calling publicly for what I've been working on privately for months: the
From the
The problems of the individual market would be over. Job-killing mandates and burdensome regulations on insurance would be unnecessary, because the consumer would have power over the big insurance companies.
No longer would you be left alone to fight your battles with them.
As a physician, I can tell you this: insurance was bad before ObamaCare. Why? Because the power was too often on the side of
I want to turn that on its head as we debate repeal.
We can include something like this association plan in what moves through
But we can act now - if the Trump administration would change the
I know for a fact
Government can be a force for fixing healthcare - mostly by getting out of the way. This is a perfect example.
We shouldn't just be about "repeal" or "replace." We should be about different ideas that work better. I don't want to hear about how many people are going to lose insurance; I want to offer plans that would cover nearly everyone - and do so with a better plan that costs less, while protecting you from the whims of the insurance industry.
Let's act together, today.
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