Richard Hudson

09/13/2024 | Press release | Archived content

ICYMI... Rep. Richard Hudson, Heritage Foundation Director of the Center for Health in the Washington Examiner: The Harris-Walz healthcare plan: Fewer options, higher prices

WASHINGTON, D.C.- In case you missed it, Representative Richard Hudson and Heritage Foundation Director of the Center for Health and Welfare Policy Nina Owcharenko Schaefer wrote an op-edfor the Washington Examinerslamming Vice President Kamala Harris, Governor Tim Walz, and the Democrats' government-run healthcare policies that are leaving patients and families with fewer, lower quality choices and higher costs.

In theop-ed, Rep. Richard Hudson and Nina Owcharenko Schaefer wrote, "While issues such as the border crisis, global conflicts, and persistent inflation continue to dominate headlines, healthcare remains a key concernfor voters.

That's especially important because, last month, Vice President Kamala Harrispicked Gov. Tim Walz(D-MN) as her running mate, solidifying the duo as the first ticket ever to feature two candidates who have fully embraced government-run, single-payer healthcare. ... It would cost tens of trillions of taxpayer dollars and reduce medical productivity, giving patients fewer healthcare choices, worse quality care, and longer wait times while hiking taxes for everyone. Harris and Walz have also embraced the Biden administration's disastrous prescription drug price controls. In North Carolina, these liberal policies are actually making prescription drug costs more expensivewhile limiting future accessto life-saving drugs for seniors. ... Democrats once promised people that the ACA would solve our healthcare woes. But a decade later, their efforts are more focused on masking its failuresthan fixing what is wrong. Premiums are still rising, families have fewer choices, and the choices that are available are more limited and lower quality. ... Instead of addressing these shortcomings, the Biden-Harris administration's solution has been to simply slap a Band-Aid over them with more taxpayer-funded subsidies. ... A Harris-Walz administration would take away the coverage you have today and put the government in charge of your care, giving it the power to decide what kind of care you get, where you get it, when you get it, and if you can get it at all. ... While Harris and Walz are focused on expanding government control and eroding your freedom, conservatives in the House of Representatives are focused on making coverage more affordable, prices fully transparent, care more accessible, and overall costsmore reasonable. ... It's time to move away from the Democrats' failed big-government policies and toward a healthcare agenda that is patient-centered, not government-centered."  Read the full op-ed in the Washington Examiner HERE.

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