Senator Marshall: Healthcare is in A Crisis & I Have a Plan to Fix It

Senator Marshall Joins America Reports on Fox News

Washington - On Friday, U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-Kansas), joined John Roberts and Jacqui Heinrich on Fox News' America Reports live in the studio to detail his plan to solve America's healthcare crisis, known as "The Marshall Plan."

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On America's healthcare crisis:

"Well, look, healthcare is certainly in a crisis. I don't have to tell you to tell your listeners, health care is in a crisis. We have a plan to fix it, but we need to have Democrats come across the aisle. Even just yesterday, they rejected our plan that would have extended these subsidies by one year. So, we have a little bit of momentum here. What our plan does is address the fraud. We put some money in your debit account so you can make your own health care purchases. Make you consumers, and then we pair that with price tags by forcing every hospital, every hospital provider, health care provider, to show you the prices, it's going to bring down the price of health care for everyone by 20%"

On price transparency:

"Look, whenever American consumers have the opportunity to compare prices, they're incredible. Women make 80% of health care choices, and just like on Black Friday, when you give people the shopping choices, they'll make good decisions. That's what the exchange was supposed to be about. It didn't happen. What happened is the federal government is just pumping money to the insurance companies, and they're motivated to make the premiums higher because we're paying 100% of the premiums no matter what."

On staying in session to work on a bipartisan deal:

"I think he should keep us here to make progress, but the Democrats aren't even willing to address the fraud. So if they're not willing to take on fraud, it's hard to imagine going any further, and then it turns into political reasons, right? So they want this problem. I'm not saying all the Democrats want this problem, but the Democratic Party wants things to be in chaos. They want high expenses. They want to see Donald Trump fail."

On empowering patients to become consumers:

"Exactly, and that's why we want hospitals, health care providers, to put their prices up front. So that's a hard emergency. It's hard to sort that one out, but if you need your hip replaced. You could go to your own app, and it would say: Okay, you need your hip replaced, all the hospitals within 60 miles, this is what they charge. And to your point, one hospital might charge $10,000 for that hip replacement, another one $100,000 as well, and this one may have better outcomes as well. So, I think the key to all this is price transparency, empowering patients, turning them into consumers."

On the enhanced subsidies expiration date:

"Jacqui, I think that Congress sometimes responds best to the pressure of time. We have to go down two roads at the same time. I'm going to do everything possible to get a bipartisan bill done before the next government shutdown date of January 30. But if we can't figure it out by then, we need to be going down this reconciliation path, where we can do this with only Republican votes. And that won't be an easy task either. We started that a month ago, probably three months ago; we started going down three roads at the same time, preparing for yesterday. Preparing for the January 30 deadline and preparing for some type of reconciliation path."

"I think it'll be a challenge. We'll do, do our best, and even if it ends up being in January, maybe we can give patients a refund."

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