In Reply to: The EPA wants more Americans to get cancer posted by mh on December 03, 2025 at 12:13:25
The whole point of insurance is to spread the risk over a large pool of people. Giving an equal amount to each person and having them pay their own medical bills does not protect anyone from a serious condition that is very expensive.
And then he cites the idiot Arthur Laffer, whose theories have been shown to be wrong many times.
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A Republican senator sketched out the contours of President Donald Trump's health care overhaul that would shift the burden for coverage to women.
The president has floated a proposal to send federal funding directly to consumers, instead of paying insurance companies to subsidize health care premiums, as Republicans once again consider ways to replace the Affordable Care Act signed into law by President Barack Obama more than 15 years ago.
"We want to send part of that money to new health care savings accounts," Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) told Newsmax TV. "But it has to be coupled with a price tags bill. Americans are great consumers. We're going to force all providers, all health care providers to show you a price tag – and by the way, women make 80 percent of the health care decisions on where you're going to go. They're great shoppers."
"If we put money in your health care savings account, if we show you the price tags," Marshall added. "[Conservative economist] Art Laffer says it's going to bring down the cost of health care $1 trillion. That's $1,000 a month for hard working families."