Americans are counting on something better, something more affordable, and something that will ensure quality care for themselves and their families at every stage of their lives when it comes to a new health care plan for the nation.
And they’ve been waiting.
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“Repeal and replace Obamacare” was President Donald Trump’s first campaign promise to voters. Rising prices and declining choices for care under the Affordable Care Act have millions of working class families struggling to afford their mandated health insurance or facing a choice to go without.
Movement is finally afoot. On Friday morning, Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), a former orthopedic surgeon, was confirmed as the secretary of Health and Human Services. In doing so, he has been selected to lead the effort toward an ACA replacement plan.
“Congressman Tom Price is perhaps the best person for the job,” said Twila Brase, R.N., co-founder of Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom, a national patient-centered health freedom organization in St. Paul, Minnesota. “From dollars to health care delivery, he has experience. He is chairman of the House Budget Committee. He knows what it’s like to work with Congress and he’s taken care of patients as a physician.”
“The federal government’s involvement in health care is the problem, not the solution,” said one health care advocate.
Joel Noble, director of Public Policy for Samaritan Ministries International based in Illinois, said Price has long believed in giving consumers a “full array” of health plan choices.
“He has said, ‘It’s imperative we have a system that’s accessible for every single American, that’s affordable for every single American, that incentivizes and provides the highest quality health care that the world knows, and provides choices to patients so they are the ones selecting who is treating them, when, where, and the like.’ Price will now be in a position to lift the burdensome regulations that restrict consumer choice,” Noble told LifeZette.
Brase believes strongly this means health care choices get returned to the states. “The federal government’s involvement in health care is the problem, not the solution,” she said.
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Whatever the solution, it most likely won’t come easy. And while Price has been confirmed and tasked with the job — he has yet to clear the trust of the American public and health care consumer.
“I want him to succeed, but I have become mildly pessimistic about Dr. Price’s appointment as HHS secretary,” said Dr. Ramin Oskoui, a cardiologist in the Washington, D.C., area. He is CEO of Foxhall Cardiology PC and a contributor to LifeZette.
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His petty stock trading suggested poor judgment, Oskoui believes. He also read Price’s 2015 bill to address some of the deficiencies of Obamacare and said it was “woefully inadequate” for addressing the problems that the ACA was meant to address and the problems it caused — specifically, that it made health care even more expensive, not less.
“Obama campaigned on health care reform. Unfortunately, he and the Democrats in Congress forced down Obamacare — a bill written by the medical industry after he told the American people that it would be written to benefit them,” said Oskoui.
The falsehoods of Obamacare, he added, are already so well-known they don’t need repeating.
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“President Trump was elected, in part, because of the failures of Obamacare. Now we have two bills filed by Republicans, which don’t lower costs and one of which actually makes legal the health care monopolies that are asset-stripping Americans. Unless we deal with the medical monopolies that have artificially kept costs high, there will be no money to rebuild our military or infrastructure.”
He added, “I am so disappointed in our mainstream media and the majority of Americans who are more concerned about ‘Dancing With The Stars,’ gay marriage, putting someone out of business for refusing to make a wedding cake — or who can use what bathroom while our country literally falls apart. ‘We have met the enemy, and it is us.'”
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