that it s bent the cost curve, that the cost of health care in this country has grown less than it did in the previous ten years. it s also covered 20 million more people. but forget them. you know, in 2008, i was going around the state of minnesota, and every vfw hall, in every cafe, i would see a bolton board where it would have a burger bash or spaghetti dinner for someone who had gone bankrupt because they had gone through their annual cap or their lifetime cap. i am very frightened about what you are going to do, and so are millions of americans. and frankly, i know that you do
the affordable care act, how would you take this rigid structure and reform it along the lines of free market principles, so that, per your question to marsha blackburn and donald trump s statement, americans all have access to health insurance, because we do have access to care, and how do you make it affordable to bend the cost curves. that s republicans biggest beef. we have entitlements that take up more and more non-discretionary funds every year. we cannot afford our health care and we know compared to every other country in the world, there s a way to reform and bend the cost curve. tom price has a better way of how to do it. there s no silver bullet on this. matt schlapp made good points about how health care should be portable. you shouldn t be wed to your employer for health care coverage. competitive markets across state lines is part of the solution. but not the silver bullet. you have to pair it with other things like tax credits.
that it has bent the cost curve. that the costs of health care in this country has grown less than it did in the previous ten years. it s also covered 20 million more people. but, forget them. you know, in 2008, i would go around the state of minnesota, in every vfw hall, in every cafe, i would see a bulletin board where it would have a burger bash or a spaghetti dinner for someone who had gone bankrupt because they had gone through their annual cap or their lifetime cap. i am very frightened about what you are going to do. and so are millions of american americans. and, frankly, i know that you do things that help physician
how democrats would do it are totally different. we want competition. we want transparency in the marketplace. we want to bend the cost curve. we want people to get coverage, not because the government tells you to, but because it s affordable and anybody who wants to get it should be able to get it. risk pools in individual states, or ideas like insurance across state lines. what we call obamacare today was originally a republican proposal. but that is awfully important. you cannot forget the historical context of that heritage plan. and done by the heritage foundation, thank you for reminding me. and the second point, of course, is when republicans said unify control of the government, they did not put forward an alternative health care problem. they ve been totally focussed on
step and they are working together. they are communicating, which is what you want them to do, be collaborative and be on the same page so there aren t missteps early on. seems like they are in unison, which i think is a very good sign and you want to have them in a cord moving forward. you also have, eric, the fact that when president-elect donald trump said we ll do something on the same day. he said when hhs nominee tom price is confirmed, we will have. i think what they are saying is that in the obamacare bill that nobody read, there s all these things that says the secretary shall. the secretary has the discretion. there are so many things from an administrative standpoint that can be done immediately to help alleviate some of these obamacare problems. they need to tackle a couple things. they need to get competition back into it to really bend the cost curve down. there are two issues the