Consider friends and to i know to be problesolvers. My request this mmtee this morning is that you do two things. You quickly stabilizthe individual Insurance Market place. And that you undertake a serious effort to Work Together to address the cost of health care. Ande are good times tennessee. R Unemployment Rate is the lowest in history. We became the first state in the nation to offer free clearly college or Technical Schools to all of our citen our efforts per capita are ang the lowest in the country. The crisis of health care and the certainty of its future threatens our atcitize and the ste budget. The primary diffence between and whenennessee now are very young governor led the state more than 30 years ago is that impact the cost of health care has on everything we do. With onlyfinds itself three insurance carriers, offering a ca compliant coverage. In more than 80 percent of counties, citizens have only one insurance option. These limited options provide aubstantialwith cost i
One small step. The small step on a big issue, which has been locked in partisan stalemate for seven years. It is a step Congress Needs to take by the end of this month. Big to 18not so million americans. Get healthont insurance from the government are on the job, they buy them from that is the individual market. Nearly 300 million americans have Health Insurance. From a market. Buy it from a market. 9 million of those 18 million have no government help. Theyre the ones most hurts. Most hurt. Let us take someone in tennessee. Would receive no tax benefit to cover his 71 hundred dollars per year premiums. This does not include detectables or copays. Next year, the Tennessee Department of insurances premiums will go up as an increase between 1500 and 3000 and in premiums next year that doesnt include increases in deductibles and copays. She will have to pay a fit of your income on Health Insurance fifth of her a income on Health Insurance. At the end of september, blue our largest insure
Bill cassidy of louisiana and bill graham. What is in this measure . This is the last ditch effort therying to repeal Affordable Care act. What it will do is change the existing system of the Affordable Care act into a block grant. Ttates would get a se amount of money. They would take those dollars and implement either a plane similar to the Affordable Care act, they could go singlepayer or a conservative route and undo some of the parts of the Affordable Care act. Particularly the Consumer Protection some folks like. These are the preexisting conditions, things like that. Governors would be able to undo those things and have this pot of money to implement their own system. We will take a look at some of the details offered up i senator graham on the senate floor. Medicaidraham we keep in place. We try to get more flexibility because indiana is a good example of what can happen if you give states flexibility. One thing i dont like, you can run to the emergency room and we pay a big bi
System of the Affordable Care act and change it into a block grant. States would get a set amount whatever they wanted care act, they could go single whatever they wanted in their Health Care System. They would take the dollars and implement a plan similar to the ffordable payer, or they can go a conservative route and undo some of the parts of the Affordable Care act particularly the consumer protexases that some folks like. The preexisting conditions, things like that. Governors would be able to undo those things and have this pot of money. Take a look at some of the details offered up by senator graham and well come back to our discussion. We keep medicaid in place as it is today. We try to give more flexibility because indiana is a good example of what can happen if you give states flexibility to help poor people. One thing about medicaid, is you get a headache you run to the emergency room. I want them to have some ownership. If you smoke thats something that ought to be considere
Story talks about the measure being offered by bill cassidy of louisiana, and also Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. What is in this measure . Lastis is the republicans ditch effort at trying to reveal the Affordable Care act. Is change thed do existing system of both the Affordable Care act and medicaid, and change it. It would get a set amount of money to do whatever they wanted in their Health Care System. They would implement those planet like the Affordable Care act, or single care, are more liberal, or they can go a conservative route and undo some of the Affordable Care act. Thatonsumer protections some folks like, particularly. Governors would be able to undo those things and have this pot of money to implement their own Health Care System. We will take you look at some of the details offered up by him , we will come back to our discussion. We keep medicaid in place, as it is today. We try to give more flexibility, indiana was a good example of what could happen. One thing abou