Spartz: Restore Healthcare Competition or Take it Over

Rep. Victoria Spartz, a Republican Congresswoman representing Indiana’s 5^th District, issued the following statement on healthcare and reconciliation offsets:

“If the GOP does not have the backbone to start fixing healthcare in reconciliation, we have to start a full government takeover now – before we completely bankrupt our country and our people. Fraud and abuse in healthcare by large monopolies are destroying our nation fiscally and physically.”

Spartz proposed the following solutions, which will also give us at least $2 to 3 trillion in spending offsets needed for tax cuts:

1. Improve Medicaid for the most vulnerable – the federal government discriminates against the most vulnerable due to Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion;
2. Make states have “skin in the game” – states are ripping off the federal government with Medicaid money laundering “Ponzi” schemes;
3. Strengthen Medicare for seniors – Medicare overpayments to large hospitals and insurers are leading to further consolidation of their market share and expediting Medicare insolvency;
4. End unreasonable Obamacare subsidies to insurers – Biden significantly increased Obamacare subsidies through 2025 causing massive fraud and abuse; and

Improve access, price and competition for value – Obamacare failed to properly address unlimited health insurance deductions for large employers, driving more spending in healthcare and wage suppression, as well as accounting abuses for charity care by highly profitable tax-exempt “non-profit” hospitals. Obamacare also banned ownership of hospitals by doctors, leading to further consolidation and deterioration of access and value.