Republicans’ Common-Sense
Reforms Will LOWER HEALTH CARE COSTS
Americans want a step-by-step,
common-sense approach to health care reform, not Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s costly,
1,990-page government takeover of our nation’s health care system. Republicans’
alternative solution focuses on lowering health care premiums for families and
small businesses, increasing access to affordable, high-quality care, and
promoting healthier lifestyles – without adding to the crushing debt Washington
has placed on our children and grandchildren. Following are the key elements of
Republicans’ alternative plan:
• Lowering health care
premiums. The GOP plan will lower health care premiums for American
families and small businesses, addressing Americans’ number-one priority for
health care reform.
• Establishing Universal
Access Programs to guarantee access to affordable health care for those with
pre-existing conditions. The GOP plan creates Universal Access Programs
that expand and reform high-risk pools and reinsurance programs to guarantee
that all Americans, regardless of pre-existing conditions or past illnesses,
have access to affordable care – while lowering costs for all Americans.
• Ending junk lawsuits. The
GOP plan would help end costly junk lawsuits and curb defensive medicine by
enacting medical liability reforms modeled after the successful state laws of
California and Texas.
• Prevents insurers from
unjustly cancelling a policy. The GOP plan prohibits an insurer from
cancelling a policy unless a person commits fraud or conceals material facts
about a health condition.
• Encouraging Small Business
Health Plans. The GOP plan gives small businesses the power to pool
together and offer health care at lower prices, just as corporations and labor
unions do.
• Encouraging innovative
state programs. The GOP plan rewards innovation by providing incentive
payments to states that reduce premiums and the number of uninsured.
• Allowing Americans to buy
insurance across state lines. The GOP plan allows Americans to shop for
coverage from coast to coast by allowing Americans living in one state to
purchase insurance in another.
• Promoting healthier
lifestyles. The GOP plan promotes prevention & wellness by giving
employers greater flexibility to financially reward employees who adopt
healthier lifestyles.
• Enhancing Health Savings
Accounts (HSAs). The GOP plan creates new incentives to save for current
and future health care needs by allowing qualified participants to use HSA
funds to pay premiums for high deductible health insurance.
• Allowing dependents to
remain on their parents’ policies. The GOP plan encourages coverage of
young adults on their parents’ insurance through age 25.
Scorecard: Speaker Pelosi’s
Government Takeover vs. GOP Common-Sense Solutions
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Speaker Pelosi’s Bill
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GOP Alternative
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Job Losses
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Up to 5.5 million
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0
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Medicare Cuts
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$500 billion
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0
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Tax Increases
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$729.5 billion
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0
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