Rep. Fedorchak on Newsmax: “Affordability is front and center for the Republican agenda”
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Julie Fedorchak (R-ND) today joined Shannon Cake on Newsmax’s News Now to share her perspectives on affordability and health care reform. Check out highlights below:
On lowering costs across the board for Americans:
Affordability is front and center for the Republican agenda, and it's something that we've been focusing on this entire session.
Starting with energy prices—unleashing American energy—that's all about increasing supply, driving down energy costs, and you're seeing that impacted.
The President is negotiating great trade deals to help drive down the price of food. I strongly support that.
We will be tackling another significant area of unaffordability, and that's in the health care side of things.
The Affordable Care Act has been anything but affordable.
It has driven up the cost of health care, and we're seeing Americans really suffering by that. That's an area we are going to be focusing on very strongly in the next coming months.
On the Democrats’ so-called Affordable Care Act:
I really reject Hakeem Jeffries's [comments].
The Affordable Care Act, which was his party's design, was promised to drive down the cost of health care—but it has done the exact opposite and made health care unaffordable for Americans.
We are going to take a broader approach. The enhanced premium tax credits are one thing, but those alone have driven up costs since those were started in 2021. Healthcare premiums have increased 31 percent since that time. So those aren't working.
Those are going to cost Americans $350 billion over the next 10 years, and still, health care costs and premiums will go up.
There were a lot of empty promises in that bill. We're going to start unwinding those and delivering real results to citizens that will help drive down the cost of their premiums and improve their health outcomes over time.
There are no simple solutions, but we're going to tackle it, eliminate some of the fraud, and really get after improving the results for the American people.
On Republican efforts for long-term health care reform:
We're taking a different approach: We're going to put patients in charge.
We're looking at more direct-to-patient efforts that would help any kind of tax credits like this go to the patient directly rather than the insurance company—which is where these premium tax credits go; directly to the pockets of Insurance companies with no requirement that they drop rates at all.
There's a lot of misinformation out there.
Republicans are 100 percent focused on driving down health care costs, making it more affordable, giving patients more control over their own health care, and improving the outcomes for Americans.
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