Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price predicted Friday that no one should lose their health coverage under the Republican plan to repeal and replace Obamacare, and said the GOP bill should give people better options to stay covered than current law.
“We don’t want anybody to lose their health coverage or their healthcare,” he said on MSNBC.
While reports have said millions of people could lose coverage as subsidies are reduced for people using Obamacare, Price said the bill would also create more choices and let people stay covered in different ways.
“We don’t believe that individuals will lose coverage at all, so long as they’re able to select the kind of plan that they want for themselves and for their family,” he said.
Price added that Obamacare forced people to buy a government-approved plan, but said in many cases, those plans aren’t perfect fits, and often cost too much.
“They may be moved from a plan that they currently have to a plan that’s much more desirable for them to have,” he said.
“We want to make certain that the transition timeline for this works for everybody,” Price said. “We want to make certain that nobody falls through the cracks.”
