ID HCR045

Concurrent resolution expressing legislative findings that the Affordable Care Act increases health care costs, raises taxes, negatively affects seniors, and reduces quality of care and consumer choice

States that the Affordable Care Act constrains individual freedom to choose doctors and interferes with personal health care decisions

Declares that government-owned health insurance exchanges would cost consumers and taxpayers millions of dollars and strip state sovereignty over health insurance matters

Asserts that private sector companies have already created websites and services allowing consumers to pool resources, compare insurance products, and lower premiums at no cost to taxpayers

Encourages health insurance providers in Idaho to establish their own private health insurance exchange as a market-based solution to rising health insurance costs