Update: Of note from Wittman’s staff, on page 1516 the bill states that all vending machines must clearly label how many calories any item available for purchase has. Now that’s what I call vital reform!
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Special thanks to the staffs or Rep. Rob Wittman and Rep. Glenn Nye for sending out links to the health care bills. If you have a few weeks, give ’em a read…however, they’ll be voted on NEXT week…
- Link to H.R. 3962 – Affordable Health Care for America Act as Introduced
- H.R. 3961 – Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009
Wittman statement:
“Since arriving in Washington I’ve made it a point to be involved in the healthcare debate. In the process I’ve formed a First District Healthcare Advisory Committee, held town hall meetings, several telephone town halls, and countless meetings with constituents. Overwhelmingly the response from these meetings and thousands of emails and phone calls has been an emphatic “no” to government run health insurance.
“However, this doesn’t mean I or my constituents are opposed to reforming the way health insurance operates in this country. Many from both sides of the aisle agree that we should sell insurance across state lines, create pools for small businesses to lower premium costs, enact tort reform, and not bar those with preexisting conditions from receiving fairly priced insurance. These are the starting points for real healthcare reform, not a government run system bought on the credit of American taxpayers.”
There’s also this ditty from the office of “the whip”, Rep. Eric Cantor, regarding how publicly accessible the public announcement of these bills was:
Perhaps we should call this the “not so” public public option?
