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
10th - | Vitter Praises Turnout at His Health Care Forum |
5th - | Vitter Measure Blocks Senators From Exempting Themselves from a Government Health Care Plan |
10th - | Vitter Applauds Senate Approval of His Provision to Allow Americans to Import Lower-Cost Prescription Drugs |
9th - | Vitter Issues Statement on Planned MoveOn.Org Protest at His Metairie Office |
22nd - | Cassidy, Louisiana Delegation Introduce Bill To Bolster Health Care Training Program |
1st - | Vitter Introduces Health Care Amendments to Budget Resolution |
31st - | Vitter’s View: Government Health Care is Not the Answer |
15th - | Alexandria Town Talk : Our view: Vitter right on medicine, immigration (07.15.09) |
10th - | Wall Street Journal: Vitter Prevails in Prescription-Drug Debate |