Issue Position: Rural Health Care

Issue Position

In North Dakota, ensuring access to quality, affordable health care is a top priority. As a senior member of the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee and Co-Chair of the Rural Health Coalition, Earl fights tirelessly for the health of North Dakota.

When federal regulators announced new burdensome restrictions that threatened to force North Dakota rural hospitals to close, Earl cut through the red tape and forced the bureaucrats to back off.

And when St. Joseph's Hospital in Dickinson was in danger of closing due to financial troubles, Earl worked with the North Dakota congressional delegation to secure a special federal designation that brought more revenue to the facility and ensured residents of the region would have good access to health care.

Earl also helped pass legislation to reform the health insurance system -- forcing insurance companies to stop their most unfair practices, strengthening Medicare benefits for our seniors, and ensuring the Medicare system provides North Dakota hospitals with the payments they deserve. North Dakota hospitals called the legislation "a historic step forward for health care in North Dakota."

Earl knows the key to North Dakota's future success relies on keeping our state's most valuable commodity, our citizens, healthy. Whether it is his continuing work to strengthen Medicare for North Dakota seniors or working to make affordable, quality health insurance available to our North Dakota families and business, Earl continues to fight in Washington for his constituents back home.

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