The Empowering Patients First Act, or H.R. 3400, would allow:
* Individuals to choose their health insurance (no mandates)
* Deductibility of health insurance premiums regardless of who pays
* Employers to provide flexible health-insurance options to employees
* Health insurance coverage for low-income families (300 percent of the federal poverty level)
* Health insurance for high-risk individuals (pre-existing conditions)
* Sale of health insurance across state lines
* Expansion of Health Savings Accounts, or HSAs
* Individual membership association health insurance plan
* Association Health Insurance Plans
* Medical liability limitations (Tort reform)
Unlike Obamacare, the Republican alternative would NOT:
* Impose fines on workers or employers
* Require cuts in Medicare
* Increase taxes
* Require a new government bureaucracy
* Require a “government health insurance” option
* Add $1 trillion or more to the national debt.
Now that just makes way too much sense and doesn’t give nearly enough control of the citizenry to our Dear Leader Obortion.