David Vitter, United States Senator, Louisiana

Organizational Chart of the Proposed Health Care Plan

Congress must make health care more accessible and affordable for all Americans. Over 43 million Americans are uninsured. Prescription drug costs are skyrocketing.

Some of the steps I am taking to improve health care for all Americans include:

Supporting a strong Patients Bill of Rights, even when it means standing up to my own party leadership.  

Authoring legislation to extend LaCHIP, Louisiana's children's health care program.

Voting to make health care premiums 100 percent deductible and to create new tax breaks for elderly home care and dependent care.

Writing legislation to provide tax cuts that will help increase access to long-term care insurance.

Writing legislation to allow reimportation of cheaper prescription drugs from Canada and other countries.

Writing legislation to speed up the approval of generic drugs so Louisianans can buy cheaper versions of FDA-approved prescription drugs

Fighting frivolous lawsuits that are driving doctors out of business and increasing costs for patients.

 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

Food and Drug Administration

Centers for Disease Control

National Institutes of Health

 



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