More nonsense on health savings accounts and these high deductible junk insurance plans from Utah Republican Rep. Mike Kennedy. Pushing for HSAs as a replacement for the Affordable Care Act is apparently the talking point they’ve settled on since we’re seeing all of these Republican backbenchers come out of the woodwork to advocate for them since the shutdown ended on Fox not “news.”
Kennedy made an appearance on Fox’s Sunday Night in America with Trey Gowdy, and while discussing the shutdown and the ACA subsidies that Democrats were pushing to have extended, Kennedy started things off by shaming SNAP beneficiaries for buying soda and candy before going into his spiel about why he’s such a huge fan of high deductible insurance plans and HSAs.
KENNEDY: Access to healthcare is vital for everybody, but I’ll just remind you, Trey, and everybody else, that the primary driver of healthcare should be the individual. And this gets me to government policies like SNAP, where the number one purchase on food stamps or SNAP, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, number one purchase is soda. The number two is candy.
