By allowing Americans to use healthcare dollars on preventative care and wellness, the plan shifts the system away from reactive 'sick care' and toward long-term health outcomes.
Allow Americans to use healthcare dollars for preventative care and wellness.
Occurrences
gives Americans greater freedom to invest in prevention and wellness
Evidence
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The Great American Healthcare Plan includes a section titled “Refocusing the System on Prevention and Patient Control,” stating: “By allowing Americans to use healthcare dollars on preventative care and wellness, the plan shifts the system away from reactive ‘sick care’ and toward long-term health outcomes.” The same release says the bill expands HSAs and eligible expenses to include wellness essentials.
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On the House floor, Burlison argued for giving people “control over their healthcare dollars” and described a “massively expanded, tax-free account” usable for insurance, direct primary care, and health sharing arrangements. He also said the model should include health sharing and other alternatives as the “core engine” of reform.
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The site’s latest news still features the April 16, 2026 introduction of the Great American Healthcare Plan, and no later official post in the lookback window shows House passage, Senate action, or enactment of the preventive-care/wellness component.
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In the lookback window, NTU publicly supported Burlison's H.R. 8324, describing it as expanding HSA access, patient control over healthcare dollars, and health care cost transparency. This shows continued advocacy around the introduced bill, but not enactment or completed implementation.
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GovInfo's H.R. 10015 text shows Burlison introduced a later Great American Healthcare Act on August 3, 2026. Section 108 would treat qualified wellness expenses as medical care for HSA purposes, including healthy food, vitamins, dietary supplements, fitness memberships, exercise instruction, fitness equipment, and wearable fitness trackers.
Assessments
Burlison has materially pursued the promise in federal office by introducing H.R. 8324 in April 2026 and H.R. 10015 in August 2026, both aimed at expanding HSA or healthcare-dollar use for preventive care and wellness expenses. But the provided record shows the proposals remain introduced/referred legislation with no House passage, Senate passage, enactment, or executive implementation as of September 9, 2026. Because he is still in office and the legislation has not definitively failed, the promise is not delivered but remains unresolved, with effort credit for a serious same-term legislative attempt.
Burlison clearly advanced the promise by introducing the Great American Healthcare Plan, which explicitly proposed allowing healthcare dollars, including expanded HSA-eligible expenses, to be used for preventive care and wellness. He also publicly advocated this approach on the House floor, showing serious effort in the same term. But the evidence provided does not show House passage, Senate passage, enactment, or another completed policy change implementing the promise. Because the policy appears actively pursued but not yet achieved, the best classification is unresolved rather than delivered or partial.