U.S. Senator Rand Paul said he spoke to President Donald Trump by phone about healthcare reform on Monday and told the president he thought Trump had the authority to create associations that would allow organizations to offer group health insurance plans.
Paul,
a Republican, told reporters that Trump was considering taking some
form of executive action to address problems with the healthcare system
after the Senate failed last week to pass a measure to reform the
system.
Allowing groups like AARP, which
represents retirees, to form health associations could enable
individuals and small businesses to form larger groups to negotiate with
health insurance companies for lower rates.
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“If you could legalize that, not only could it fix some of the problems that we are encountering in the individual market, there's 28 million people without insurance because it's too expensive. What if we forced the price down enough.”
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