Health Care

ObamaCare mandates that all uninsured Americans purchase health insurance or face a financial penalty. This law creates complex regulations for health care providers and insurers, imposes unfunded mandates on states and small businesses, dramatically expands Medicaid coverage and cuts Medicare funding, all while permitting the Obama Administration to issue waivers for those groups it chooses to exempt, raise taxes on successful individuals and some health services, and raise fees on insurance companies.

ObamaCare fails to accomplish real reform and instead harms health care, job creation and the federal deficit at a time when our country can ill-afford such government inflicted damage.   

ObamaCare has caused premiums to skyrocket, forcing millions of Americans off of their current coverage and putting unelected Washington bureaucrats between patients and their doctors. With respect to the uninsured, ObamaCare drives up the cost of health care and takes us further away from real solutions to improve health care access.

As if these consequences were not bad enough, you hear every day in Nevada and across the country of small business owners who cannot hire and expand because of the increased regulatory costs of ObamaCare. ObamaCare equation is simple: higher costs, more debt, fewer doctors, reduced access, fewer jobs, and increased dependency on failed federal programs. This is not the answer to our health care crisis. It is making things worse, which is why I have voted to repeal, replace or fix ObamaCare over 50 times and will continue to work for patient-centered solutions to lower costs and improve quality health care access for all Nevadans. Some of these reform initiatives include H.R. 30 the Save American Workers Act sponsored by Rep. Todd Young (R-IN), H.R. 160 the Protect Medical Innovations Act sponsored by Rep. Erik Paulsen (R-MN), and H.R. 22 the Hire More Heroes Act sponsored by Rodney Davis (R-IL).

Americans do need and deserve quality health care reform which is why I have supported multiple initiatives that would drive down patient costs, increase innovative technologies and treatments and improve access for all. These bills include H.R. 2300 the Empowering Patients First Act, introduced by Dr. Tom Price (R-GA) and H.R. 2653 the American Health Care Reform Act, introduced by Dr. David Roe (R-TN).