[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 78 (Friday, May 10, 2019)]
[House]
[Pages H3686-H3687]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
FREE MARKET SOLUTION TO HEALTHCARE
(Mr. GREEN of Tennessee asked and was given permission to address the
House for 1 minute.)
Mr. GREEN of Tennessee. Madam Speaker, clinicians need to take the
lead on healthcare. Lawyers and bean counters were used to write the
Affordable Care Act, and look what it got us.
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As a doctor, former owner of a healthcare company, and cancer
survivor, I believe it is time we allow clinicians to write and form
the healthcare laws that will help our Nation, and to base it on a free
market solution. That is why I am introducing a bill to innovate
Medicaid, a plan that will put the patient in charge of their care with
more choice and less cost.
My plan would allow for free market competition and improve care. But
above all, for Medicaid, it would not raise taxes and, potentially,
could even lead to lower costs, without raising costs for Medicaid
patients.
We need less government involvement, not more, to fix our broken
healthcare system.
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