Episode 806: Rep. Chip Roy on “The Case for Healthcare Freedom”

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🗓️ 1 February 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Newt talks with Representative Chip Roy about his new report, “The Case for Healthcare Freedom: A System for a Healthier America,” which outlines a plan for healthcare reform in the United States. The report advocates for empowering patients and doctors rather than insurance companies and bureaucrats, promoting the use of health savings accounts, direct primary care, and a competitive insurance market. Rep. Roy emphasizes the need for price transparency and reducing regulatory barriers to foster competition and lower healthcare costs. He also highlights the importance of addressing the root causes of poor health, such as diet and lifestyle, and providing accurate, science-based information to the public. Their conversation also addresses the broader implications of healthcare reform for the federal budget and the potential for a transformative shift in the healthcare system.

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0:00.0	On this episode of Newt's World, on Wednesday, January 22nd, Representative Chip Roy
0:09.9	released a new report entitled The Case for Healthcare Freedom, A System for a Healthy
0:15.4	America. The report is a painstakingly researched 47-page report on America's health crisis and how to address
0:23.7	it, presenting ideas on how the Trump administration and congressional Republicans have the
0:28.9	opportunity to deliver transformational reform to our health care system. The report asserts that
0:34.9	health care freedom is the simple idea that American patients and doctors must be empowered to decide and provide health care, not insurance companies and corporate or government bureaucrats.
0:46.1	We should have the freedom and incentives to make informed healthy choices about the food we eat, the medicine we take, and we should be able to ensure ourselves
0:55.1	against financial risk of a health event in a robust competitive market. Here to discuss his
1:01.2	plan, which I am deeply intrigued with, to make America healthy again, I'm really pleased to
1:07.0	welcome my guest, Representative Chip Roy. He is currently serving his third term in Congress,
1:12.0	representing the great state of Texas's 21st Congressional District, which includes South Austin,
1:17.3	North San Antonio, and the Texas Hill Country. Chip, welcome and thank you for joining me on Newtsworld.
1:34.9	Mr. Speaker, great to be on the show. I really appreciate all you do and all you've done since being in public service and you're still intimately involved with what we're doing, and I appreciate it.
1:43.2	Listen, do you talk about health care freedom in your newest report.
1:46.0	Could you define what you believe that means for the average American family?
1:50.0	Yeah, and you just read the description that we put in the report, but I put it in basic terms.
1:55.0	And I say this as a cancer survivor 13 years ago.
1:58.0	I finished my last chemo treatment, I think 13 years ago last week when I was working for
2:02.6	our mutual friend, Governor Rick Perry.
2:04.6	We had just finished his presidential campaign, and frankly, I was helping on yours for the
2:08.4	remaining pieces of it.
2:09.9	When I came through that, and I was blessed to be able to go to MD Anderson, and as
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