On the recordFebruary 23, 2010
Which lowers cost, it's not available for an over-the- counter medicine. And so that $20 prescription is actually over-the- counter medicine, and we're talking about ulcer medicine. So in this way, the patient reacts so as to take care of her health and to lower her cost. And in millions of those interactions across the Nation, not from Washington, D.C., but rather from the exam rooms themselves is how the system saves costs. You recall, Dr. Broun and Mr. Speaker, how we spoke of the HSAs being 30 percent cheaper. Well, that's why they're 30 percent cheaper because patients are incentivized to control their cost. One last thing I will say. When you ask a crowded room who is most responsible for each person's health, we all know that it is that person in particular. So what the Health Savings Account does, the patient-centered approach does, it says that the patient is most responsible for his or her care, and in so doing, we trust that the patient, with her physician, will make the right decisions. And the story of Health Savings Accounts is that that is true, that is a well placed trust.
