Paul Ryan: “Mr. Speaker, to respond to a couple of comments from the last speaker, I would say, number one, we are going to keep…”

“Mr. Speaker, to respond to a couple of comments from the last speaker, I would say, number one, we are going to keep hearing this rhetoric, that this undermines or destroys employer-sponsored health care. Actually, it is far from that. It is the opposite of that. This makes it easier for employers to offer health care to their employees. What this does is it makes it easier because employers can offer less-costly catastrophic coverage and give their employees money, pretax money in their accounts, to purchase health care. This will lower the cost of health insurance and make it cheaper for employers to offer health care.”