A Republican senator sketched out the contours of President Donald Trump’s health care overhaul that would shift the burden for coverage to women.
The president has floated a proposal to send federal funding directly to consumers, instead of paying insurance companies to subsidize health care premiums, as Republicans once again consider ways to replace the Affordable Care Act signed into law by President Barack Obama more than 15 years ago.
“We want to send part of that money to new health care savings accounts,” Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) told Newsmax TV. “But it has to be coupled with a 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 percent of the health care decisions on where you’re going to go. They’re great shoppers.”
“If we put money in your health care savings account, if we show you the price tags,” Marshall added. “[Conservative economist] Art Laffer says it’s going to bring down the cost of health care $1 trillion. That’s $1,000 a month for hard working families.”
Marshall also addressed the 79-year-old president’s cognitive health after the White House confirmed he had recently undergone a magnetic resonance imaging examination, but Trump told reporters he wasn’t sure what part of his doctors were scanning, although he then denied they were concerned about his brain.
“I think it’s a normal executive level type of type of checkup,” the senator said. “If you went to the 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 processes, 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’s an 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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