Issue Position: Drive Down Health Care Costs

Issue Position

Representative Tarwater knows Obamacare is not the answer. He worked very hard to drive down the cost of healthcare in Kansas. Representative Tarwater targeted the HMO privilege fee of almost 7%. This is a tax on your HMO Premium dollars. Representative Tarwater argued that increasing this fee will hurt the middle class and low income families by increasing costs. He also argued that this fee will be more substantial than the saving Kansans receive by using an HMO, rendering them ineffective. He also warned that the HMO product would cease to exist in Kansas. Unfortunately, there was not enough support from the Democrats and the more liberal Republicans who thought it was a good way to fill the budget holes. Representative Tarwater was right, there are no HMO products left in Kansas. Next year, he will work to terminate this tax and bring back the HMO product. Everyone deserves affordable health care.

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