SEN RICK SCOTT: I grew up in public housing and I know how to fix Obamacare

It’s clip for each of america to admit what the American radical already know: Obamacare has failed.  

The Affordable Care Act, besides known arsenic Obamacare, created a strategy that enriched security companies and hospitals and screwed implicit Americans. Obamacare didn’t fto radical support their security plans oregon their doctors, and families didn’t prevention wealth — and neither did the national government. Families person been near with higher costs and healthcare that doesn’t conscionable their needs.  

I privation to archer you astir a household with a preexisting wellness information that I deliberation astir whenever I speech astir healthcare successful our country. They grew up successful nationalist housing, seldom saw a doctor. One of the kids had a hep disease. Their ma would thrust 200 miles to a foundation infirmary to get him treatment. That was my household increasing up. 

When I perceive stories of families struggling to spend their premiums, putting disconnected attraction due to the fact that it’s excessively expensive, oregon splitting their pills successful fractional to marque them past longer, I spot my parent and my member and the conflict my household went through. And I spot a strategy that has continued to neglect families similar excavation portion ruining the marketplace for everyone else.

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Obamacare isn't affordable for galore Americans, truthful it needs to beryllium fixed successful Congress. (Cyberguy.com)

Republicans, and adjacent Democrats, agree: Obamacare hasn’t made healthcare immoderate much affordable. I privation radical to beryllium capable to get affordable, accessible healthcare and support the information nett for families that Obamacare is intended to be, which means we person to instrumentality action.  

I cognize we tin hole Obamacare. I person been moving with President Donald Trump and my colleagues connected a bill that makes elemental fixes to Obamacare that volition assistance families get healthcare that fits their needs, each portion driving down costs. Under my plan, we don’t regenerate Obamacare — it doesn’t spell anywhere. We keep healthcare.gov and authorities exchanges, we support protections for individuals with preexisting conditions, and cipher volition suffer healthcare.   

We simply adhd options and fto Americans beryllium consumers, making the prime that works champion for them and their families. That means we halt funneling taxation dollars to security companies, let radical to store crossed authorities lines and marque healthcare much transparent truthful families tin marque informed decisions.

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Right now, families tin lone bargain security plans that are sold successful the authorities they unrecorded in. That doesn’t marque immoderate sense. If an security supplier successful Kansas offers a large plan, a household successful Georgia should beryllium capable to bargain it. By letting the states opt successful to a strategy that allows income crossed authorities lines, we are opening up the wellness security marketplace crossed the country, which encourages innovation and contention to thrust down prices and make amended choices for families. 

Just similar buying for apparel oregon groceries, you’re nary longer constricted to the stores successful your town; you person entree to stores states distant to find what you privation alternatively of settling for what’s close successful beforehand of you. And again, we tin and indispensable bash this portion maintaining protections for those with preexisting conditions truthful that everyone is treated fairly.

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When we halt funneling taxation dollars for subsidies to security companies and alternatively supply families safety-net enactment done a Trump Health Freedom Account — an HSA-style account — we enactment the powerfulness of decision-making into the hands of families to take a program that champion fits their needs.  Americans will always make a amended prime for their families than the authorities will.  

And past we adhd transparency to healthcare by requiring nationalist reporting of negotiated rates, costs, and currency prices for services provided astatine hospitals, ambulatory country centers, imaging centers and objective labs. Families volition person upfront pricing connected what things volition outgo them — a healthcare menu — so they tin marque informed decisions and program for their needs.

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We simply adhd options and fto Americans beryllium consumers, making the prime that works champion for them and their families. 

We person the accidental to marque elemental changes that marque a satellite of quality to American families. We’d flip the publication connected Obamacare that near Americans with less choices, higher costs and worse outcomes, to 1 that drives down costs, fits their needs and encourages transparency and amended outcomes.  We person to get escaped of the aged ways Obamacare was failing and alteration it into a new, unfastened programme that gives Americans the quality to enactment similar consumers, conscionable similar we bash with each different happening we buy.  

Everyone knows Obamacare is simply a disaster. It’s clip to hole it. We indispensable halt politicians successful Washington from making our healthcare decisions top-down and alternatively springiness Americans an unfastened healthcare strategy wherever they person the state to get the attraction they need. 

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