May 10, 2019 - Issue: Vol. 165, No. 78 — Daily Edition116th Congress (2019 - 2020) - 1st Session

[Pages H3686-H3687]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   FREE MARKET SOLUTION TO HEALTHCARE

  (Mr. GREEN of Tennessee asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. GREEN of Tennessee. Madam Speaker, clinicians need to take the 
lead on healthcare. Lawyers and bean counters were used to write the 
Affordable Care Act, and look what it got us.

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  As a doctor, former owner of a healthcare company, and cancer 
survivor, I believe it is time we allow clinicians to write and form 
the healthcare laws that will help our Nation, and to base it on a free 
market solution. That is why I am introducing a bill to innovate 
Medicaid, a plan that will put the patient in charge of their care with 
more choice and less cost.
  My plan would allow for free market competition and improve care. But 
above all, for Medicaid, it would not raise taxes and, potentially, 
could even lead to lower costs, without raising costs for Medicaid 
patients.
  We need less government involvement, not more, to fix our broken 
healthcare system.

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