I Want to Hear from YOU
Friend,
Just this week I reintroduced the Patient OPTION (Offering Patients True Individualized Options Now) Act, H.R. 2900. My bill repeals Obamacare in full and replaces it with patient-centered, market-based reform. My OPTION Act is the only alternative to Obamacare that allows the patient to have full control of their coverage – even once they're on Medicare.
While Obamacare is a complex, 2,700 page bill, my OPTION Act puts forward several important reforms in just 77 pages:
- Fully repeals Obamacare;
- Provides 100 percent deductibility for all health care expenses, including health insurance;
- Increases contribution limits and adds patient-friendly reforms to Health Savings Accounts;
- Moves Medicare to a more flexible premium assistance program;
- Creates a new tax credit for donations to hospitals and clinics for indigent patient care;
- Allows consumers to purchase health insurance across state lines;
- Makes it easier for groups to establish Association Health Plans, which would allow small businesses and other entities to band together to negotiate lower costs for their employees or members;
- Gives doctors a tax incentive to treat indigent patients;
- Completely phases out the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; and
- Incorporates the language from H.R. 567, the State Health Flexibility Act, which would block grant Medicaid and CHIP.
Americans deserve better than Obamacare, and I am doing everything I can in Washington to rally support for my OPTION Act... but now I need YOUR help. Washington needs to hear from real Americans on how Obamacare is killing jobs, driving up the cost of healthcare and destroying the doctor-patient relationship. If you have a story of how Obamacare has caused increased premiums, affected your small business's hiring capacity or lessened the quality of your healthcare in any way - I want to hear about it! Time is of the essence for us to repeal this disastrous law and replace it with legislation that makes healthcare affordable for all Americans.
Regards,
Broun Discusses OPTION Act on House Floor
Congressman Broun discusses his Patient OPTION Act on the House floor. Click HERE to watch.
Rep. Broun: Obamacare Already Harming Economy
Thursday, 01 Aug 2013
By Bill Hoffmann
Rep. Paul Broun, a Georgia lawmaker and doctor, says his new bill — the Patient Option Act — could successfully replace Obamacare with a thriving patient-centered, market-based healthcare system.
"We've got to get rid of Obamacare because it's already harming our economy," Broun told Dom Giordano, guest host of "The Steve Malzberg Show" on Newsmax TV.
"It's going to break budgets from family budgets all the way to the federal budget. It's going to destroy the doctor-patient relationship. It's going to harm the quality of healthcare."
Broun said his Patient Option Act, which he has introduced in Congress, would repeal Obamacare and make healthcare affordable for everybody.
"It provides coverage for all Americans, and still saves Medicare from going broke. It does this in a patient-centered, market-based healthcare plan … in 77 pages," he said.
The Patient Option Act, according to Broun, differs from Obamacare in that it doesn't deal with healthcare like a commodity.
"Health insurance is something that people purchase and they go and purchase health services from providers across the country," he said.
"What this will do is make healthcare expenses, including insurance, 100 percent tax deductible for everybody … It will allow people to own and control [their own] health savings accounts.
"It moves Medicare to a flexible premium assistant program and establishes Medicare health savings accounts that again patients own and control."
He said his plan will allow people to have health insurance anywhere in the country and let them shop for it in any state.
"People will have a whole smorgasbord of health insurance options where they can buy what's right for their family," he said.
"It creates a tax credit for donations for individuals when they give money to a free health clinic."
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