those who have it, frankly, can t use it. the deductibles are too high, the copayments are too high. it s just a card. it doesn t help them. under our approach, by returning innovation to the states, actually giving americans a broad choice to plans they can actually use, i believe we are increasing access to affordable care for those who want it. i think that s an important distinction here. as i see the tax credits, i have a small business background, it s chamber of congress. for 4 decades, i watched a small people, entrepreneurs, mom-and-pop companies struggle to get health care. under the republican plan for the first time, if you work hard and play by the rules, you re treated equally. you can that help as an entrepreneur. those businesses, frankly,
the entire conference, across the philosophical spectrum about how best to restore faith and how best to return a free market and how to make sure we do that in a way that balances the budget. we look very seriously at the option of providing the same health care. at the end of the day, the direction they gave us was that was not a provision they were comfortable today, so we decided against it, to go in a different direction. will cover more americans are less americans? that s probably the key question. here s how i know it affects us in our districts. more people have opted out, found a way to get out of obamacare then are taking it.
obamacare. we are moving forward to get health insurance to create more choices in the marketplace and to do the biggest entitlement reform since bill clinton signed welfare reform into law. we certainly met the test of the president and secretary price who believe this. we will work with them, but we need them on board to make this happen. i might add. this is obamacare gone. this is important to relieving americans from this terrible law and begin restoring control in the free market to conservatives, moderates, all republicans that build consensus around. dr. price own legislation last year, i had 84 cosponsors,
especially those who can least afford it. you run down tax increase after tax increase after tax increase favoring the economy, they achieve nothing. i don t want americans to continue to struggle under the obamacare taxes, which is why we are moving to repeal them, as well as the subsidies and a thing of the day, as you all know, for this to pass the senate, it has to balances on the budget in the window that we ve been given and will make sure it does. on the side that we are focused on, very little from the standpoint of repealing the taxes, appeals on the mandate and the subsidies as well, making sure that we are defunding land parenthood and redirecting those dollars to
they need, with their families need. our role is to first act now, dismantle obama cares unpopular. people can spend their health care tax dollars the way they need to and we are going to help low income americans access affordable health care. it s immediately available. secretary price wrote today of this morning, our legislation aligns with the of the president s goals of rescuing americans from the failures of the affordable care act. secretary price also wrote that our bill is necessary in an important first step for fulfilling our promises to the american people. i encourage you to read the bill and cover our actions tomorrow.