Chair Cassidy Opposes Democrats’ Resolution Increasing Families’ Health Care Costs, Abusing Taxpayer Dollars

WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), chair of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, delivered a speech on the U.S. Senate floor, opposing Democrats' Congressional Review Act resolution raising families' insurance premiums and removing safeguards against waste, fraud and abuse of Americans' taxpayer dollars.

"The American people want lower health care costs," said Dr. Cassidy. "Republicans have focused on a way forward on health care that actually lowers costs, fights fraud, and gives power to the patient, not profit to the insurance company, and not ill-gotten gains to the criminal."

"If this CRA passes it will eliminate commonsense measures for waste, fraud, and abuse." continued Dr. Cassidy. "I don't know why my democratic colleagues are so entrenched in protecting a broken system. They're willing to raise premiums 5% to protect the status quo."

Background:

As chair of the HELP Committee, Cassidy is leading Republicans to lower families' health care cost, empower patients, and eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse.

In December, Cassidy introduced the Health Care Freedom for Patients Act to send money directly to patients instead of giant insurance companies.

Last week, Cassidy launched an investigation with every Senate Republican into Minnesota's abuse of federal child care funding.

Click here to watch Cassidy's full speech.

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