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John Cornyn: “One idea would be to provide a catastrophic health insurance…”

Featuring: John Cornyn, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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Republican U.S. Senator John Cornyn talks about his re-election campaign, end of government shutdown

Published | Video Starts at 15:38

And then provide choices to people, depending on their circumstances, what they want to do for their own health care. One idea would be to provide a catastrophic health insurance policy for everybody in that category and then maybe provide funds for a health savings account that they could use to pay some of the regular expenses of health care. But obviously, it's a complex issue, which is one reason why we said we're not going to try to negotiate that while the government still shut down. (15:38–15:53)

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Proposes providing catastrophic health insurance and health savings accounts as a solution for healthcare expenses.

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