What They’re Saying About Republicans’ Patient-Centered Health Care Plan
House Ways and Means Committee Republicans
What They're Saying About Republicans' Patient-Centered Health Care Plan
Last week,
As one of four committee chairmen spearheading the
"By every measure, the Affordable Care Act is hurting more people than it's helping. Folks are having to pay more and more for less and less health care... We are absolutely convinced there is a better way. Our approach is a step-by-step approach that takes care of every American at every stage of their life... we propose a health care backpack. A backpack that can travel with you throughout your life -- from job to job, state to state, home to start a business or raise a family, and, if it's a backpack and plan that works for you, into your retirement years as well."
Here's what leading conservatives and health care experts are saying about the plan:
Nina Owcharenko in
Americans for Tax Reform [http://waysandmeansforms.house.gov/Components/Redirect/r.aspx'ID=473974-29030369] "Obamacare has approached healthcare with a "government knows best" mentality, and the
Heritage Action [http://waysandmeansforms.house.gov/Components/Redirect/r.aspx'ID=473975-29030369] "
Dr.
Opportunity Lives [http://waysandmeansforms.house.gov/Components/Redirect/r.aspx'ID=473978-29030369] "By eliminating the 'knot of regulations, taxes and mandates' ushered in by Obamacare, and instead focusing on a 'patient-centered reform' approach, Republican lawmakers plan to foster an environment in which individuals would no longer be forced into an ill-fitting insurance plan, according to a draft of the new agenda."
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