Paul Ryan: “I am curious as I watch this debate over medical savings accounts from the other side, if you are so much against MSAs…”

“I am curious as I watch this debate over medical savings accounts from the other side, if you are so much against MSAs, then why do you expand MSAs in your own bill? The Ganske-Dingell bill has medical savings accounts expansion and extension of them in their own legislation. So if they are so rotten, why are you advocating them in your own legislation? Mr. Chairman, what this bill is about is whether or not we are going to improve the quality of health care for all Americans. That is the sole purpose of this bill. What this amendment gives us a chance to do is determine whether or not we can also improve the accessibility and affordability of health care. We all know that health care is getting too expensive, that it is inaccessible for too many people. This bill will do many great things to improve the quality of health care, but we need to work on making it more affordable for working families and we need to make it more accessible. Association health plans, which is also in this amendment which is being ignored right now, allows the small little guy, the small businesses to band together to jointly purchase health insurance so they can get that big volume discount purchasing power that the big companies have.”