Tag: Affordable Health Care

Myth: The House bill pays for health care reform with a “small business tax” that will kill jobs. Fact: Small businesses benefit enormously from America's Affordable Health Choices Act. Reform dramatically reduces small business health costs. The Small Business Majority recently released… Continue

Today, President Obama will talk with seniors about health insurance reform during an AARP telephone town hall. America’s Affordable Health Choices Act delivers much-needed help for America's seniors. That is why the AARP, the Center for Medicare Advocacy, along with many other… Continue

Momentum continues to build for America’s Affordable Health Choices Act because it is becoming more clear that the cost of inaction–to American families and the U.S. economy–is too high and the bill delivers on its promise to lower costs, provide greater choice,… Continue

Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, House Majority Whip James Clyburn, Caucus Chairman John Larson, Caucus Vice Chairman Xavier Becerra, and Assistant to the Speaker Chris Van Hollen held a press availability this afternoon in the Capitol… Continue

Over the weekend, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) affirmed that America’s Affordable Health Choices Act would deliver targeted assistance to those in need today and lead to an increase in employer-sponsored health insurance coverage. The CBO analysis confirms that bill's provisions would… Continue

“The fiscal year 2010 Labor-Health and Human Services-Education appropriations bill includes strong increases for key health, education and worker training initiatives, including NIH research, Pell Grants, Head Start and clean energy jobs…”

This afternoon, the House passed the fiscal year 2010 Labor-Health and Human Services-Education appropriations bill by a vote of 264 to 153. The bill makes critical investments in our country’s long term prosperity by funding health, education and worker training initiatives, including… Continue

Recent polls and studies continue to find significant support for health insurance reform — even as political attacks and misinformation heat up around America's Affordable Health Choices Act: A Kaiser Family Foundation poll released today shows support remains strong: “As has been… Continue

America's Affordable Health Choices Act takes a number of steps to ensure that when Americans face a health crisis, they don't also face a financial crisis. Yesterday, Speaker Pelosi and Reps. Xavier Becerra, Donna Edwards, Rosa DeLauro, and Mary Jo Kilroy held… Continue

On Monday, Republican Leader Boehner published an Op-Ed on Yahoo! on America's Affordable Health Choices Act — the House health insurance reform bill. This Op-Ed contained many myths about the bill: BOEHNER'S MYTH: More than 100 million Americans would be forced onto… Continue