David Schweikert: “You hear everyone here all say something nice. We all like telehealth. I am frustrated because I can't get my head…”

“You hear everyone here all say something nice. We all like telehealth. I am frustrated because I can't get my head around why we are not going further. Outside the internal political theater, those of us who have worked on this legislation since the day we got here and then all of a sudden wake up one day and it is a different bill with someone who I have never even heard of working on it, God bless. The majority gets to do things like that. We want a change in the price of healthcare. Can we come together and unleash technology? Telehealth is more than just looking at the phone and doing FaceTime or now talking. It is the wearable. It is the thing. It is the thing you lick. There is technology with which we could be crushing the price of healthcare, and instead, we are doing little incremental steps here. There are a couple of problems with the bill the Democrats decided to bring to the floor. It is for 2 years. We compromised to 4. If you want capital investments in the technology, you have to give us at least 4. It should be permanent. There is also something in here that is just frustrating. You missed the language on health savings accounts. You have 32 million people now who functionally are not going to have access to be able to use those accounts for their telehealth.…”