As a member of the Healthy Future Task Force created recently by House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy, Georgia Congressman Rick Allen (R- GA-12) has been working with colleagues to find solutions to modernize the American healthcare system and find ways to lower costs of healthcare and health insurance. Allen recently joined his peers in releasing their findings.
“House Democrats continue to push a single-payer agenda that would reduce patient choice, decrease competition, and raise taxes and health care costs for American families and workers,” said Allen. “My Republican colleagues and I remain committed to fixing our broken healthcare system with market-driven solutions.”
Allen is a member of the Affordability Subcommittee, one of the five subcommittees, where he worked to address the issues of accessibility and affordability in health care.
An overview of the Affordability Subcommittee’s solutions included:
● Improve workers’ ability to control and afford their health care, and improve small business owners’ ability to provide health insurance at a low cost and high value for employees
● Promote innovation and transparency to empower patients and to provide more affordable options
● Lower costs and increase choices by fostering competition and targeting incentives that drive consolidation and limit competition
Allen said the subcommittee also hosted a roundtable recently with small business owners to discuss how these policy solutions would improve small business owners’ ability to offer high-quality health benefits at lower costs for employees.
“When health care decisions are made by bureaucrats in Washington, the result is a top-down, one-size-fits-all system that never works,” Allen said. “We want all Americans to have a high-quality, affordable, and personalized approach to their health. To do that, we must remove the barriers that prevent employers from banding together to help their workers get the most out of their benefits.”
