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Issue Position: Health Care

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Issues: Health and Health Care

"President Barack Obama and Democratic leaders in Congress have held fast to a strategy that exploits the general desire for health care reform and the current economic crisis to institute a government take over of our health care system. As a member of the Energy and Commerce Committee Subcommittee on Health and Co-Chairman of the GOP Doctors Cacus, I have championed reforms that guarantee access to affordable health care for all patients while ensuring that no government bureaucrat is able to control your health care decisions." - Phil Gingrey

-Sponsored the Help Efficient, Accessible, Low Cost, Timely Healthcare (HEALTH) Act of 2009 that would reduce the cost of health care in this country by enacting meaningful medical liability reform.

-Sponsored the ADOPT HIT Act of 2009 that would promote greater cost savings and efficiency in our health care system by supporting the adoption of health information technology.

-Cosponsored the Empower Patients First Act to provide meaninful incentives that would ensure all Americans have access to health insurance coverage without turning our health care system over to the government.


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