HUTCHINSON, Kan. — First District Congressman Roger Marshall unveiled his plan for affordable healthcare in Washington on Tuesday. The Chair of the Republican Study Committee’s Health Care Task Force said the program, called The RSC Healthcare Plan, will come in two phases. In an interview with Hutch Post, Marshall says it’s time to find a solution to healthcare.
“We all realize that healthcare is broken,” Marshall said. “And everywhere I go people are concerned about the cost of healthcare, they’re concerned that healthcare is a very personal item. So our solution is going to be centered around personalized healthcare.”
The plan is presented as an alternative to Democrat proposals that Marshall says forces Americans off their current insurance plans, including those with employer-employee coverage.
Specifically, the plan would protect Americans with pre-existing conditions and give citizens better control over their healthcare decisions and dollars, according to a news release from Marshall’s office. No other specifics were given in the proposal or where the measure will go in the House from here.
Marshall says the plan will be especially beneficial in rural areas. “I think the innovation, the telemedicine, are all connected to this,” Marshall said. “And driving down the cost of healthcare by giving patients more choices and patients more control, it’s going to help rural medicine just as much as urban America.”
While the measure is set to go, it looks like the measure won’t move far in a House that is at a standstill.