SENATOR MARSHALL: AMERICANS ARE SMART CONSUMERS AND TRANSPARENCY PUTS POWER BACK IN THEIR HANDS

The following information was released by Kansas Senator Roger Marshall:

On Wednesday, U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-Kansas),joinedWake up Americaon Newsmax to detail Republicans' health care plan that will empower patients rather than insurance companies and allow them to be consumers again.

ClickHEREor on the image above to watch Senator Marshall's full interview.

On Republicans' plan to empower patients:

"Absolutely, and good morning to everybody. Look, I came to Congress to fix the cost of health care. I ran a hospital as a practicing physician for 25 years. I oversaw health departments. When we saw Obamacare, we knew that it was going to empower insurance companies. So, Congress, your tax dollars, $150 billion a year, we're borrowing from your grandchildren to send to big insurance companies. Instead of empowering insurance companies, we want to empower you the consumer. So, we want to send part of that money to your health care savings account, but it has to be coupled with the price tags bill. Americans are great consumers. We're going to force all providers, all health care providers, to show you a price tag. And by the way, women make 80% of the health care decisions. They're great shoppers. If we put money in your health care savings account, if we show you the price tags, Art Laffer says that's going to bring down the cost of health care a trillion dollars. That's $1,000 a month for hard-working families."

On bipartisan support for the healthcare package:

"You know, I really, really do. Now we're not going to see it here in December. December is going to be, I'm going to call it a Showboat. But in January, we hope to have a bipartisan package. We're doing what you said, rather than giving that $150 billion to big insurance companies, let's give it to consumers, put it in their hands. Couple that with price tags, and then if we allowed Association plans to be sold across state lines, then a Costco or Amazon could offer some type of an association health care plan and have that bargaining power of a big group of people as well. So, there are solutions out there, but it all starts with empowering patients, giving them price tags, giving them choices."

On ACA subsidy fraud:

"Well, it's been to spend more money, right? They want to throw good money after bad money. To your point, these enhanced Biden-era tax credits are about $35 billion a year. And what it did is it increased fraud. So, it created a whole group of people that aren't actually in. They're enrolled by name but not really using their health care. So there's millions of people, about 35% of the people on Obamacare. Around 8 million people never even use it. They don't even know they're on Obamacare right now. So, we think that there's probably $30 billion of fraud as well. So that enhanced subsidy created zero premiums. So, one of our fixes is, regardless of where you're at, you need to be putting some type of skin in the game as well. And address the fraud."

On President Trump's recent health checkup:

"I think it's a normal executive-level type of checkup. If you went to the best wellness centers in the country, they're going to order that on people probably over the age of 65, and by the way, we all have some atherosclerosis already starting to build up, some aging process, just like you would see arthritis in the joints. But I can tell you my interactions with the President. I'm a pretty hard worker. I'll work 100-110 hours a week. He outworks me. He's the first person I've ever known that works harder than I do. He runs around that golf course. He goes through staff members, you know, several groups of them each day. He is in incredible shape right now. And you talk about sharp, he's playing three to four-dimensional chess right now, with time being that fourth dimension."

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