House GOP charts roadmap to 'Make America Healthy Again,' cites healthcare system impact on 'national defense'

Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, connected Wednesday unveiled a lengthy study that helium says serves arsenic a "roadmap" to "Make America Healthy Again" and points to however the flawed American healthcare strategy impacts "national defense." 

The 47-page study – titled "The Case for Healthcare Freedom" – is simply a "painstakingly researched" summary of "America’s wellness situation and however to code it," Roy said.

Its findings see that U.S. healthcare spending had reached $4.9 trillion successful 2023. 

As a stock of the nation's gross home merchandise (GDP), wellness spending accounted for 17.6%, and costs are increasing astir 1% faster than the yearly GDP, the study says.

The study argues that "if conservatives attraction astir a beardown nationalist defence and debased taxes, these trends person to beryllium reversed." 

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Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, attends Donald Trump's inauguration successful the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol connected Jan. 20, 2025, successful Washington, D.C. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

"The Case for Healthcare Freedom lays retired a elaborate roadmap for however Congressional Republicans tin assistance President Trump present connected the committedness to code America's wellness crisis," Roy said successful a statement. "The occupation isn't conscionable wellness insurance, oregon Big Pharma, oregon nutrient additives that are making america unhealthy; it's the information that politicians, bureaucrats and corporations are each benefitting from a broken, cronyistic strategy that lets them enactment profits implicit patients with impunity." 

Roy argued that close now, Congress has "a tremendous accidental to enactment American healthcare backmost connected way by embracing the empowerment of patients and doctors done the promotion of expansive wellness savings accounts successful the fund reconciliation process, and we request to instrumentality afloat advantage." The congressman went connected to say, "giving the aforesaid actors much powerfulness and wealth won't work; if we privation to Make America Healthy Again, the reply is healthcare freedom. If we privation to power our budgets and healthcare spending, the reply is healthcare freedom."

The wide-ranging study comes conscionable 2 days aft President Donald Trump was sworn into a 2nd term. The pledge to "Make America Healthy Again" became a focal constituent of Trump's run erstwhile Democrat turned Independent statesmanlike campaigner Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dropped retired of the contention and backed him. Trump tapped Kennedy to pb the Department of Health and Human Services, but his confirmation proceeding has not yet been scheduled. 

The study includes disapproval of the programme providing nutrient payment assistance for low-income households. 

Secretary of Health and Human Services nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attends Donald Trump's inauguration successful the U.S. Capitol Rotunda connected Jan. 20, 2025.  (Saul Loeb - Pool/Getty Images)

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"While chronic nutrient unwellness kills up to 678,000 Americans per year, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) volition apt wage implicit $250 cardinal connected junk nutrient for the adjacent 10 years," Roy's bureau notes.

The study besides targets the coveted value nonaccomplishment and diabetes drugs championed arsenic "miracle medication," which has adjacent utilized by celebrities to driblet pounds successful caller months. It recovered the Danish pharmaceutical company, Novo Nordisk, "spent astatine slightest $25.8 cardinal implicit the past decennary connected U.S. aesculapian professionals to beforehand 2 of its obesity drugs, Wegovy and Saxenda."

The study assesses that families and their employers connected mean successful 2024 spent $25,000 annually, oregon astir the outgo of a institution car, for wellness insurance, and that's contempt "the mendacious committedness of Obamacare to little premiums by $2,500 a year." The outgo of premiums has accrued astatine slightest 100% since 2010, according to the report. 

President Donald Trump holds up an enforcement bid aft signing it astatine an indoor Presidential Inauguration parade lawsuit successful Washington, D.C., connected Monday, Jan. 20, 2025.  (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

"Obamacare has made healthcare truthful costly that it present subsidizes households earning up to $600,000 per twelvemonth for their wellness insurance," the study says.

In 2024, the study found, 4 of the apical 5 American industries by gross were healthcare-related. Those were hospitals, which came successful first; drug, cosmetics and toiletry wholesaling, which came second; wellness insurance, which earned the 3rd spot slot; and pharmaceutical wholesaling, which came successful fifth. 

The study besides discusses however 47% of infirmary currency prices are little than the insurer-negotiated terms "that radical wage hundreds of dollars a period for the privilege of having." 

The study argues aggregate security companies, including UnitedHealth, Anthem/Elevance, and Humana, "earn" a bulk of their gross from taxpayers.

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"We bash not person a escaped marketplace successful the healthcare system. The authorities controls much than 80% of wellness spending," according to a summary of the study provided by Roy's office. "The Left’s solution to hole our healthcare strategy is spending adjacent much wealth and giving the authorities adjacent further power implicit the healthcare system. ‘Medicare for All’ would outgo an further $33 trillion implicit 10 years, and it would permission 70% of Americans financially worse off."