Ratcliffe Champions Conservative Healthcare Reforms as Obamacare Premiums Soar

Delivers weekly address on behalf of Republicans in Congress Texas Insider Report: WASHINGTON D.C. Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Texas) delivered the Republican address this week to discuss how House Republicans are offering a #BetterWay to achieve quality more affordable health care.  Earlier this week the Obama administration confirmed that Obamacare premiums will rise by more than 20 percent next year.

Republicans are offering a plan to repeal Obamacare and replace it with real sensible patient-centered solutions" said Rep. Ratcliffe. Because in a nation of 323 million people it makes no sense for unelected bureaucrats to dictate your health insurance plans. Our plan gives you more control so you can choose the plan that best fits your needsnot Washingtons mandates."

Click here to view full video. Remarks of Representative John Ratcliffe of Texas Weekly Republican Address Rockwall Texas October 29 2016 Twenty-two percent. Thats how much more the average midlevel Obamacare plan will cost next year. Now thats just an average. For many families the increase will be much more. In Pennsylvania the average increase will be 53 percent. In Tennessee 63 percent. And in Arizona the average increase will beget this116 percent. That translates to hundreds of dollars out of your pocket each and every month. This is money that you could be using to save for your childrens college education to put food on the table or to pay your utility bills. And here in Texas the Obama administration has just approved rate increases for health care plans that will go up as much as 70 percent. If you try switching your plan to avoid these sky-rocketing premiums that of course means that you very well may have to find a new doctor or a new hospital. And if youre getting treatment from a doctor youve trusted for years its easier said than done to simply abandon that relationship and start over from scratch. So the reality is youre stuck paying these higher premiums. If you do decide to switch coverage youll have even less to choose from. Heres how I can best illustrate it. This next year ten times the number of customers using the federal exchange will have only one insurance company to choose fromif you can even call that a choice. As you can see Obamacare is more than just another pile of broken promises. Its the worst of all worlds. Its higher costs and fewer choices. Its less freedom and more government. Its more uncertainty and less peace of mind. But there is a better way. Republicans are offering a plan to repeal Obamacare and replace it with real sensible patient-centered solutions. Because in a nation of 323 million people it makes no sense for unelected bureaucrats to dictate your health insurance plans. Our plan gives you more control so you can choose the plan that best fits your needsnot Washingtons mandates. That means things like making it easier to take insurance from job to job. Giving small businesses more leverage to negotiate better rates. And finally allowing health insurance to be sold across state lines. This plan is one plank of the agenda we call a Better Way. You can get all the details by going to better.gop. A Better Way is built on our founding principlesof liberty free enterprise and consent of the governed. And its bold too. In addition to health care a Better Way takes on poverty. It takes on our broken tax code and the IRS. It takes on this sluggish economy. And it takes on big governmentall of the overreach all of the abuses all of the arrogance coming out of Washington DC. This plan restores the separation of powers needed to stop unelected bureaucrats from steamrolling hard-working Americans with regulations out of thin air. Look we dont have to throw in the towel on the tough issues. We can tackle them head-on. Instead of the usual finger-pointing we can take a positive approach to the problems that we face. We can be open and transparent and have a government that honors the Constitution and works for the people. We can bring hope lean on one another and share in the work of getting our country back on track. That really is a better way.