House GOP seeks off-ramp to sky-high health insurance costs for millions of Americans

By Fox News · Fox News

House Republicans are expected to reveal a roadmap sometime this month that they say will lower sky-high healthcare costs. House Speaker Mike Johnson , R-La., and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., have both said they are speaking to various GOP factions to build consensus on what that plan should look like. In the meantime, Fox News Digital spoke with several GOP lawmakers about what they believe should be in such a package and found several commonalities on what they expect. "Health savings accounts (HSAs) need to be expanded to as many individual healthcare recipients or premium payers in our country. Like right now, it's the people that can access a health savings account, usually high-deductible, catastrophic coverage, those types of plans," said House GOP Conference Vice Chair Blake Moore, R-Utah. "They're really well-used, but they need to be extended so basically all Americans on some type of health insurance policy can use health savings accounts ." PATIENTS’ GROUP PRESSES TRUMP TO TAKE ON HEALTH-CARE ‘FAT CATS,’ DEMAND REAL PRICE TRANSPARENCY HSAs are accounts that allow people to set aside money pre-tax to pay for certain health expenses, but they are currently only available to people with high-deductible health insurance plans. Expanding HSA use proved a common theme among House Republicans who spoke with Fox News Digital about what they want to see in their party’s health plan. Another topic that came up frequently was reforming the pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) system, an issue that’s gotten bipartisan support in the past. PBMs are third parties that act as intermediaries between pharmaceutical companies and those responsible for insurance coverage, often responsible for administrative tasks and negotiating drug prices. PBMs have also been the subject of bipartisan ire in Congress, with both Republicans and Democrats accusing them of being part of a broken system to inflate health costs. GOP UNVEILS PLAN FOR 'TRUMP HEALTH FREEDOM ACCOUNTS'…