Health Insurance Reform

Click here to read my op-ed published November 6, 2009, in the Arizona Daily Star.

 

Click on the image above to view my floor
speech on the need for health insurance reform.

America’s health insurance system is broken and it is clear that we cannot subsist on the status quo. Our premiums have doubled in the last nine years, and the cost of doing nothing is worse. Without reform, health care spending will rise to $4.4 trillion, more than one fifth of the economy, by 2018, and the number of the uninsured will reach 61 million by 2020.

I believe we must protect what is working in our current system and fix what is broken. We need to lower our country’s health care costs, provide greater choices, increase quality, and give citizens peace of mind.  Insurance companies should not be allowed to deny coverage to customers with pre-existing conditions or price people out based on age or gender.

Changing our current system will not be easy.  As a member of the fiscally conservative Blue Dog Coalition, I share President Obama’s commitment to passing comprehensive, deficit-neutral health care reform.  We must find savings within our current system and maximize the value of our health care dollar.

Please check back here often for the latest updates in the reform process.

 

Resources:

Click here for a copy of H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act

Click here for a summary of the Affordable Health Care for America Act

Click here for a section-by-section analysis of the Affordable Health Care for America Act

Click here for a timeline of implementation

Click here for a list of critical immediate investments

Click here to read a side-by-side comparison of  H.R. 3200 and the Affordable Health Care for America Act

Find out how H.R. 3962 would work for you:

Additional Resources:

Click here to read my op-ed published July 26, 2009, in the Arizona Daily Star.

Click here to view my presentation or photos from the Healthcare Town Hall on May 26, 2009.