Tipton Co-Sponsors Affordable, Accessible Healthcare Measure

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Congressman Scott Tipton (R-CO) has co-sponsored legislation to replace the President's failed healthcare law with a solution that would make healthcare affordable and accessible to all Americans through a market-based, patient centered approach. Tipton also co-sponsored the Empowering Patients First Act (H.R. 2300) in the 113th Congress. The measure was reintroduced this week.

"This is not about politics or who is right or wrong; it's about achieving a goal that we all agree on--affordable and accessible healthcare for all Americans. The Empowering Patients First Act provides the opportunity for that to happen by putting control of healthcare choices back in the hands of patients and their doctors, creating a market-based structure that will keep prices low and expand access to quality care.

"There's a big difference between having healthcare and having health insurance, and under the President's failed law many Americans have found that out the hard way. Americans have been forced off plans they were promised they could keep, senior citizens have lost their doctors, and many families and individuals have found that the premiums and deductibles under Obamacare have not saved them any money, as the President repeatedly promised the program would. Unlike the President's healthcare law, the market-based alternative that I support empowers patients and doctors, enacts tort reform, allows for greater flexibility, portability and cost savings through competition, while continuing to provide coverage for people with pre-existing conditions. This is a replacement solution we can all get behind to fix our nation's broken healthcare system and give all Americans access to affordable, quality healthcare."

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