Custom Health Option and Individual Care Expense Arrangement Act

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Mr. MEUSER. Mr. Chairman, I thank the chairman of Ways and Means, my good friend from Missouri, very much for having this important debate for the CHOICE Arrangement Act.

Mr. Chairman, this bill does nothing more than expand the association health plans. Businesses want to have current coverage that exists today. They can keep it. President Trump years back enacted an expansion of association health plans which greatly benefited the farmers in my district and the small businesses in my district to find plans that suited them.

They used the power of their numbers to reduce costs 29 percent. We have better coverage, preferable to the entities, at lower costs. If they like their current coverage, they can keep it. It sounds way too logical, apparently, for this body. There is no logical reason to oppose H.R. 3799 other than for special interests or political motivation.

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