One year after the inception of the infamous Obamacare website, middle class families are still struggling with skyrocketing health care costs.
Schilling: "Obamacare has failed. Now we need to try something else."
EAST MOLINE, Ill. -- Today Bobby Schilling (R-Colona) said that the debate on health care reform isn't over and shouldn't be over until the issue of skyrocketing health care costs is resolved.
"Obamacare has failed," Schilling said. "Health care costs keep going up. Millions of people have lost their health insurance. Middle class families continue to feel the squeeze. Look, this obviously isn't working. We need to try something else.
"On the campaign trial, I've proposed five key solutions that will help lower health care costs and increase access to care in this country," Schilling continued. "This summer, one of those solutions passed into law. I want to go back to Congress to get the other four solutions passed and once again advocate for middle class families by working to fix our broken health care system."
Bobby Schilling's Five Health Care Solutions to Lower Costs and Increase Access to Care:
1.) Allow veterans the ability to use their own doctors in their own hometowns.
- Bobby introduced the Enhanced Veterans Health Care Experience Act in 2011, which would give veterans the right to be treated at non-VA facilities when VA wait lists proved too long and the distance to the VA facility proved too far.
- This summer, Rep. Jeff Miller (R-Florida) borrowed language from Bobby's bill and included it in the Veterans Access to Care Act, which passed the House unanimously 426-0 in June and was eventually signed into law by President Obama.
- Liability insurance is out of control for doctors, and it's driving health care prices up and doctors and specialists out of their fields. We need to put a reasonable cap on non-economic damages so we can help doctors continue to save lives and practice medicine.
- Health Savings Accounts do a great job at giving consumers more options and preparing them for emergency health care costs. We need to expand the contribution limits and provide more incentives for people to use HSAs.
- Health insurance premiums are through the roof. Competition brings down prices. Consumers should have the ability to shop for insurance anywhere in the country and not just be limited to one or two choices. If we give consumers more choices, premiums will go down, and consumers will win.
- Currently, doctors and dentists at private practices are not allowed to write charitable care off their taxes. This is a logical solution that will help those in need and help our physicians save lives.
