Rep. Barletta Votes to Protect Healthcare for Seniors, Women, and Children
This week, Congressman
"These programs are critical to ensuring the access to health care for the most vulnerable remains available," Barletta said following passage.
"We need to protect seniors and children in this country. What is important to me is that I can go home to my constituents and say we have made sure these programs are financially stable and accessible for the future. Medicare needs to be there for seniors, while CHIP is critical to provide children with health coverage and health care. Community health centers provide essential services for women's health, something I am passionate about maintaining. I'm happy to see that the House heard the calls from Pennsylvanians, and took steps today to protect these vital programs."
H.R. 3922 - CHAMPIONING HEALTH KIDS Act
H.R. 3922 funds the state
The bill also restores the historically successful federal-state partnership in place before Obamacare became law. Also in the bill is a two year extension of community health centers. One in 13 people nationwide rely on these health centers for their health care needs.
Two year funding for the
The bill would reduce current federal subsidies for seniors earning over
H.R. 849 - Protecting Seniors' Access to Medicare Act of 2017
H.R. 849 terminates the
IPAB, commonly known as "death panels" and created by Obamacare, puts the government - rather than patients and doctors - at the center of our health care system. The board is granted unilateral authority to alter Medicare policy. Fifteen unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats are given unilateral control of Medicare, while their decisions affecting the millions of Medicare policies can only be changed by a supermajority vote in
If no board members are appointed, the Health and Human Services Secretary would be solely responsible for developing the legislation to cut Medicare to achieve the savings target. The current Medicare program is unstable, but allowing a panel of bureaucrats to make critical health care decisions instead of patients and their families only further threatens the stability. This bipartisan bill would eliminate IPAB.
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