They can also simultaneously pass market-based reforms that drastically reduce the role of 3rd-party payers in healthcare.
- Expand health-savings accounts, no limit and up to $5,000 tax-credit
- Create High-deductible, catastrophic health insurance plans in which the premiums, co-pays, and deductibles can be claimed on tax-credits
- One-time block-grant Medicare & Medicaid to the states and shut down CMS (Ban illegals and abortions from receiving this aid package)
- Give the market incentives to create high-risk pools for pre-existing conditions
- Let insurers sell across state lines
- End all coverage mandates. I shouldn't have to be forced to pay for birth control being a guy
They have been reading FreeRep today, and my posts on the matter.
As I said earlier today, the Freedom Caucus can get the House to leave in what the Senate leader says he cannot, by Senate rules. Then the Senate leader can vote on their own bill that leaves those things out, for procedural reasons at the time. Then the two separate bills would go a joint House-Senate reconciliation bill, and the voting procedures for it would not prevent what had been left out being put back in under reconciliation. It’s a way forward.