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Maria Cantwell: “What is the Senator from Louisiana's interpretation of how the market controls the--you are trying to create a market…”

On the recordNovember 7, 2025
What is the Senator from Louisiana's interpretation of how the market controls the--you are trying to create a market mechanism where you are giving the consumer the same amount of money you would give them in the tax credits to make the insurance more affordable, only through a health savings account. But how do you know, once you have that in a health savings account, the market is going to not still have an increase above that amount? So how do you think this affects the market?
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Maria Cantwell
Democratic · Washington

Editor's note · Context

Questioning the effectiveness of health savings accounts in controlling market prices for insurance.

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