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Rep. Eric Burlison
November 21 at 9:37 AM

Affordable healthcare begins with empowering consumers with choices and forcing market competition.

Supercharged Health Saving Accounts, ones that go beyond the scope of traditional HSAs, could be the off-ramp from Obamacare that Americans need.

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Some of the responses:

Dude just described what a company matched HSA/FSA is already.

Concepts of a plan remain unchanged…lol

Look into what industry Eric worked in before his political career.

Love the idea of better and more widely available HSAs…but that doesn’t help those with low income. And how does that “force market competition”? How does that address the cost of pharmaceuticals, hospitals, DME?
Instead of bashing the great benefits of the ACA, why not work to fix its weaknesses. Nobody claims it’s perfect, but unless you’re prepared to set up Medicare for all or another universal healthcare plan, then let’s not throw the baby out with the bath water.

So you have the same concept of an idea , have you had it for 10 years

Ok. The bottom line is there is a huge part of the population who does not have the resources to put into a health savings accounts. The problem is your party has no plan. Medicare for all is the answer. Start there

My son has a small business. His ACA premium went up 110%, making his healthcare twice his home mortgage.

Us “simple people” have reasoned that It begins with AFFORDABILITY.
What say you Congressman?

Psst ~ We the people would like a town hall!!! 🙂

You are clueless. Please resign . That would be the best Christmas present ever!

People need to be accountable for their own health conditions to some degree. No one was born obese. People who never get off the couch are bound to have health problems later on. People who did everything right should pay less regardless of health people who did little or nothing should pay more.

Who among us does not run marathons?

Nonsense.

Burlison offers nothing other than ranting against Dems. He has no plan. He has no accomplishments. His constituents deserve more.

Rep. Eric Burlison, how about you and your colleagues use your plan for a year then let us know how it works out for you.

Like you would know anything about healthcare. If it’s one thing the GOP is allergic to it’s working on decent healthcare for this country.

Please provide examples of where your plan has successfully brought down costs & improved health care for citizens.

The illusion of ‘market competition’ was the reason ACA was created. Your idyllic, utopian, libertarian, trickle-down notions have proven to be seriously flawed.
Institutional greed still corrupts most for-profit service industries. Insurance companies have indeed become bloated because they are for-profit entities. They measure success in $$$$ not healing.
That your party has blocked or sabotaged and even tried to overturn it, multiple times, at EVERY attempt to improve the ACA is the very reason it is on its knees now.
People don’t want to shop for insurance. They don’t really want thousands of ‘plan’ options, they just want to know that if they or a loved one is injured or ill that they have access to actual medical services without fear of bankruptcy.
OTHER DEVELOPED COUNTRIES HAVE ALREADY FIGURED THIS OUT!

“…Other developed countries have already figured this out!” Yeah, but just take a look at their quality of life and the happiness of their citizens. Oh, wait….

Affordable healthcare comes from taking out the profit! #Medicare4All

Eric, This does not help those with low paying jobs and no health care plan.

He and his party have no credibility on health care they fought it tooth and nail before the Aca was passed the heritage foundation and Jim Demint vowed to make it Obamas Waterloo. They still have proposed anything meaningful in 15 years. I agree it never did anything to lower costs. The industry threw campaign money at them so they did nothing. They only care now because it could cost them in the Midterms. We as voters need to remember this at the midterms and make them pay for not caring and not even bothering to do shit for 15 years

So is this the too good to be believed Trump plan he boasted about in 2016 but has kept secret until now? You are right, this plan is so bad it can’t be believed.

Seek professional help

A thinly veiled attempt to price almost everyone out of having health insurance.

If you are a healthy 21 year old, sure, there are a lot of choices. The 50 year old with high blood pressure and bad knees, not so many.

Universal Healthcare for all Americans!

What a joke.

I missed the bit in the Bible where Jesus healed the sick then asked for a bag of denarii as payment. You hate free healthcare because it is Socialist. But praise Jesus for doing Socialist things… 🤔

the only GQP healthcare plans offered… bankruptcy and death
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Did an insurance company draft this post?

“If you’re connected to a charity and they want to donate . . .”
WTF?

So the plan is…..no insurance and deal with the fallout….sounds about right
Or we could just try something that hasn’t been tried and failed in the US….

We hate your plan it doesn’t enrich our donors enough. Unfortunately, we can’t figure out how to make you pay more for less without you figuring it out. I believe this is what you actually meant.

Same tired lies.

Quiet, piggy!!!!

We’ve already done this and it didn’t work. Billionaires want even more tax cuts and by golly, you are working hard to get it for them!

Stupidest thing I ever heard you puke

This has got to be the most poorly thought through proposal for health care reform that I’ve ever heard. You can’t seriously think that this would work in the real world. 😆 Millions of Americans would be bankrupted and/or sent to early graves under this lame-brained plan.

Why fuck up something that was already working and in place?! This is nothing but a shit show for the Republicans, because they screwed their followers and now they are forced to do something! Fuck the republican party!

This is a BS scam!! Nothing but a con game!

You’re a joke. That whole concept is bullshit, and you know it.

Stupidest thing on Facebook today.

You are completely clueless. 60% of your constituents in Missouri can’t afford to try and put money in an HSA. They need comprehensive health insurance that pays for their health care expenses as they are incurred. You rant about health insurance companies then take money from them and keep them in business.

…said the self-dealing guy who enjoys taxpayer-provided healthcare.

This guy doesn’t get it. The ACA works. They need to stop fucking with it.

What a bunch of crap!!! 🤮

Bullshit. Another Burlison lie. Health Savings Accounts are great if you have a high income and can afford to put money into them, but middle class and lower income families, often living paycheck to paycheck, don’t have disposable income to set aside.

Conservatives are the most economically-uneducated people on the fucking planet. Ask any of them how this would work, even just a basic explanation, and they can’t.

Why not look at healthcare every other country provides for its citizens? After 15 years of Republican failure to come up with any plan, you gonna fix it in 6 weeks?

Quiet, Piggy!
We’re way beyond tired of paying for gold-plated healthcare for moochers like yourself while you vote to cut or deny altogether coverage for the rest of us.
Vote out this useless screwball.

How ridiculous. Are you going to give everyone a half a million dollars in case they suffer a catastrophic illness like cancer? Or have a baby born with health problems that has to spend months in the NICU? Or suffer a catastrophic stroke that requires months of rehab? Or a devastating auto accident that requires years of physical therapy? Are you really this stupid or are you counting on your constituents being that stupid?

“…Are you really this stupid or are you counting on your constituents being that stupid?” Yes.