Thank you for reaching out to me with your thoughts on healthcare reforms and insurance costs. I’ve long been advocating for reforms to the healthcare system and I appreciate the opportunity to share my efforts to reduce your healthcare costs and improve medical care delivery.
As you know, Americans across the county have seen their healthcare premiums, taxes and medical fees skyrocket. That includes deductibles which are so costly it nearly invalidates your insurance coverage. Far too many families have told me their insurance coverage doesn’t actually cover doctor’s care because they never reach the exorbitant out-of-pocket deductible threshold. A main reason for this is because Washington has not been focusing on meeting medical needs, but only on insurance mandates. These mandates are driving up the price of each and every insurance plan and have made insurance coverage and medical care far more expensive than need be. The bottom line is this: the laws need to be fixed because the system is completely unsustainable. Insurance rates keep climbing and now medical care is even further out of reach for the middle class. We can do better.
Make no mistake, the American healthcare system was broken and expensive before the Affordable Care Act was ever signed into law. That’s why our new healthcare framework must put Americans back in charge of their health care under a system that delivers affordable care when needed, by a doctor of your choosing at a price you can afford. No one will be left out and no one will be forced to have an expensive plan that doesn’t meet their needs.
Our goal must be to make sure everyone has access to affordable coverage and not force a one-size-fits-all expensive plan designed from Washington mandates. Instead, we’ll promote quality measures, stop the Washington dictates and eliminate the $600 to $800 billion wasted annually that make healthcare more expensive, but leaves patients no better off. I support reforms that emphasize universal access to coverage, opens up an insurance market that serves the people (not the insurance companies), rewards individuals for staying healthy, moves those who are sick into care as quickly as possible and treats the chronically ill in plans that make sense for their medical needs.
I am confident we can fix the system in a way that brings down costs and will never go back to the days that insurance companies prevent an individual from getting coverage for a pre-existing condition.
Thank you for sharing your ideas, thoughts and concerns. Based on feedback from constituents like you, and from healthcare professionals from across Southwestern Pennsylvania, I wrote on opinion piece recently published in the Washington Examiner titled “A Better Model for Healthcare in America” that you can read by clicking here.
As always, I invite you to share your comments and please stay in touch moving forward. It is an honor to represent you and Pennsylvania’s Eighteenth District in Congress. To stay in touch with what I’m working on and latest news from Congress, you can follow me on Twitter @RepTimMurphy or you can find me on Facebook at www.facebook.com/RepTimMurphy. I also encourage you to sign up for my e-newsletter by visiting www.murphy.house.gov.
Sincerely,
Tim Murphy
Member of Congress
Tim Murphy
Member of Congress
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