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Rep. Larry Bucshon says we need to find ways to drive down health-care costs and make the marketplace more competitive.
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Since congressman Charles Schwab -- the Supreme Court now wrapping up its third day of debate on health care yesterday and while looks like we may have to wait council June.
For their decision on that many in congress have already made up their mind and we're joined now by.
Republican congressman large push on -- -- medical doctor as well a surgeon as a matter fact that I would make you uniquely qualified to.
Certainly talk about the the issues here but what do you think of the debate.
The last few days you're probably in that camp that thinks at least the individual mandate is going away are betting on that -- you.
Well I think the individual mandate is gonna go away and in the if you look at what the American people think two thirds of the American people think it's clearly on its constitutional.
I think the justice -- heard a good argument.
That it is unconstitutional.
And for the first time in American history of the federal government.
Is gonna force American citizens to buy a product that they may or may not want so I'm very optimistic after the first three days of -- the oral argument.
So what if it does go away and you can draw your experiences.
As a doctor or speak as a as a congressman and answered that question but what if it does go away.
Then why do we go ahead with other parts of the the -- some of which.
Individually happen to be very popular -- that we strike down the whole thing and start from scratch.
I think we start from scratch you mean if you look at the amount of money that.
The Obama administration was predicting they would collect from the penalties.
Using that -- to pay for other parts of their expansion.
Of Medicaid for example.
Without the individual mandate without that revenue to hold the whole build the whole Obama care program in my view falls apart -- It's it's such a massive bill 12500 pages or so.
That I think -- be impossible legislatively to correct that but you gotta do something don't you -- -- you as your experience told you that in itself.
If you're starting from scratch then what then where do you start because it took us forever to just generations even to get to this point.
By the Republicans put up an alternative to obamacare and then.
At the committee level with the substitute bill went obamacare was that the committee level.
We'll start there tort reform insurance across state lines expanding health savings accounts these and other things that we know.
-- look at the private sector.
Marketplace to be more competitive and drive down costs.
We'll wait to agency with the court comes up with the congressman large push on thank you very much for coming on today.
Thanks for -- appreciate it thank.
