Just half a year into his congressional tenure, Chip Roy is taking the oft-abandoned helm of the Republican Party’s lead on healthcare reform. For nearly a decade, Republicans have promised to repeal and replace the Affordable Healthcare Act, and for nearly a decade, Republicans have proven themselves to be incompetent at best and liars at worst. But if Roy’s opinion piece at The Federalist on the matter is any indication of what’s to come from his office, Republicans may actually prove capable of tackling the underlying problems plaguing our broken healthcare market at last.

Most vitally, Roy understands that this market is no longer a market. Our employer-based insurance model has severed consumers from healthcare providers, rendering the prescription drug market, hospital pricing, and physicians functionally unresponsive to patient demand. Roy aims to tackle the extreme inelasticity of the healthcare pricing by giving consumers more power to pay out of pocket, untaxed, for better choices in healthcare. The Texas congressman identifies what may become the silver bullet for Obamacare: direct primary care models.