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Hill Supports Historic Structural Entitlement Reform to Fix Medicare

Date: March 26, 2015
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Senior Citizens Minors and Children Entitlements and the Safety Net Health Insurance

Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 2, the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015, by an overwhelming bipartisan vote of 392-37. H.R. 2 would be the first major structural entitlement reform in nearly two decades. If signed into law, the bill would replace the current Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula with a payment system that is more sustainable and would end the so-called annual "doc-fix," which has cost the American taxpayers almost $170 billion over the last 12 years.

Following passage of H.R. 2, Congressman French Hill (AR-2) released the below statement:

"By repealing and replacing the Sustainable Growth Rate, for the first time in a long time, we are fixing Medicare in a bipartisan way so that it's finally fair to patients, physicians, and the taxpayer. I thank Leadership on both sides of the aisle for making this historic entitlement reform a reality, and I ask the Senate to swiftly move this commonsense bill so we can make Medicare sustainable for generations to come."


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