Back healthcare changes that remove state-by-state restrictions, encourage national insurer competition, implement meaningful tort reform, and expand incentives for health savings accounts.

We can have an immediate impact on improving healthcare by removing state-by-state restrictions and encouraging national competition among insurers, implementing meaningful tort reform, and creating incentives for the use of healthcare savings account so consumers are better informed and have a financial stake in managing their health.

He commits to a package of healthcare reforms aimed at competition, tort reform, and HSAs.

Issues – SCOTT DESJARLAIS
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Healthcare: Americans experience the best healthcare at affordable prices when big insurance and big government aren’t meddlesome middlemen interfering in the doctor patient relationship. ObamaCare is not the answer to providing better medical care or reducing costs, but rather amplifies the problems with our current system. We can have an immediate impact on improving healthcare by removing state-by-state restrictions and encouraging national competition among insurers, implementing meaningful tort reform, and creating incentives for the use of healthcare savings account so consumers are better informed and have a financial stake in managing their health.

DesJarlais’s official issue page states the exact health policy goals in the claim, showing the promise itself was publicly maintained.

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Issues – SCOTT DESJARLAIS
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Cosponsors include Scott DesJarlais (TN). The bill title and full title state it would repeal title I of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for cooperative governing of individual health insurance coverage offered in interstate commerce.

DesJarlais backed a bill to permit interstate health insurance coverage, directly matching the promise’s call to remove state-by-state restrictions and encourage national competition.

partial same_term A for effort

H.R. 762 (IH) - Health Care Choice Act of 2013
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The House voted on passage of H.R. 1628, the American Health Care Act, with 217 ayes and 213 noes. DesJarlais’s office said he supported the amended bill with state waivers, describing it as emphasizing federalism, free markets, competition and personal choice, and saying it included waivers for states to opt out of harmful Obamacare regulations.

He voted for AHCA, including a version that would have created state waivers, but the bill did not become law, so this shows concrete effort rather than fulfillment.

partial same_term A for effort

Roll Call 256 | H.R. 1628 | American Health Care Act
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The House passed the Increasing Access to Lower Premium Plans and Expanding Health Savings Accounts Act of 2018 by 242 to 176. The related bill record on GovInfo identifies H.R. 6311 as the House-engrossed measure to amend the tax code and the Affordable Care Act to allow lower-premium copper plans and expand health savings accounts.

This is direct evidence that DesJarlais-supported HSA-related changes advanced in the House, but the measure remained only House-passed and was not enacted as a federal law.

partial same_term A for effort

Roll Call 376 | H.R. 6311 | Increasing Access to Lower Premium Plans and Expanding Health Savings Accounts Act of 2018
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Bill Number H.R. 6311. Bill Version Engrossed in House (EH). Short Title: Increasing Access to Lower Premium Plans and Expanding Health Savings Accounts Act of 2018. Full Title: An Act To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to modify the definition of qualified health plan for purposes of the health insurance premium tax credit and to allow individuals purchasing health insurance in the individual market to purchase a lower premium copper plan.

GovInfo’s bill record shows the HSA/copper-plan proposal advanced to House engrossment but not to enacted law, supporting a finding of incomplete delivery.

never same_term A for effort

H.R. 6311 (EH) - Increasing Access to Lower Premium Plans and Expanding Health Savings Accounts Act of 2018
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