Moore pitches HOPE Act to let HSAs pay premiums and expand choice in health care
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Summary
Rep. Blake Moore described bipartisan health provisions his committees advanced, highlighted recent PBM reform in appropriations, and promoted the HOPE Act, which would expand health savings account (HSA) flexibility — including use for premiums — to reduce costs and increase market applicability.
Rep. Blake Moore used constituent questions about health-care affordability to outline measures his office is pursuing to lower costs, including pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) reforms and the HOPE Act to expand Health Savings Account (HSA) flexibility.
Moore said PBM reform was included in recent appropriations (one of the 11 bills passed) and will help reduce prescription prices. He described the HOPE Act as a proposal to make HSAs available with a broader set of insurance plans and to allow HSA funds to be used to pay premiums — a change he argued would increase market applicability and give households more control over payments.
The congressman said past HSA designs were tied largely to high-deductible catastrophic plans and that expanding HSA eligibility would allow families to use tax-advantaged dollars for premiums and improve competition and transparency in the health market. He acknowledged complexity and trade-offs in legislative implementation and described the HOPE Act as one part of a broader set of bipartisan measures (telehealth expansions, PBM reforms) intended to curb rising costs.
Moore said these proposals are under active discussion in Ways and Means and related health committees; he urged constituents that change is difficult legislatively but emphasized his role as chair of a healthcare task force working on targeted reforms.
