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Obamacare repeal vote a 'critical first step'
Jul 11, 2012
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Rep. Phil Gingrey voted to repeal President Obama’s disastrous health care law today, which passed the House of Representatives with a bipartisan vote of 244-185. The President’s law gives control of one-sixth the economy to Washington bureaucrats and imposes a massive tax increase on middle-class A...
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GINGREY: GOP Doctors Caucus' diagnosis
Jul 10, 2012
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The Washington Times By Rep. Phil Gingrey, M.D. The Supreme Court may have ruled it constitutional, but Obamacare remains a disastrous, un-American law. In upholding President Obama’s health care mandate by deeming its noncompliance penalty a tax, the Supreme Court effectively rewrote the bill. As J...
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Boss Hogg and Obamacare
Jul 10, 2012
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to introduce you to Boss Hogg from Hazzard County, Georgia. He used his position of authority to terrorize Georgia – with the help of henchmen like Roscoe P. Coltrane – in the 1970’s television show The Dukes of Hazzard. Mr. Speaker, today life imitates art. We have another...
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Boss Hogg and Obamacare: A comparison
Jul 10, 2012
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Many of you are familiar with the character Boss Hogg from Hazzard County, Georgia. He used his position of authority to terrorize Georgia – with the help of henchmen like Roscoe P. Coltrane – in the 1970’s television show The Dukes of Hazzard. Today, life imitates art. We have another Boss in our m...
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Gingrey “Bitterly Disappointed” by Supreme Court Ruling
Jun 28, 2012
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In response to the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold Obamacare, the Republican members of the Georgia Congressional delegation today reaffirmed their commitment to the full repeal of the President’s health care law. The members cited infringement upon personal freedoms, increased health care costs,...
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Gingrey, Physicians in Congress Release ‘Doctors’ Note’ on Medicare
Jun 11, 2012
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GOP Doctors Caucus co-chair Rep. Phil Gingrey, M.D., (GA-11) along with fellow House and Senate Republican physicians, today released a short tutorial highlighting key facts about the Medicare program and detailing challenges the program faces if Washington does not adopt bipartisan solutions to avo...
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Gingrey: Passage of FDA Reform, GAIN Act “critical” to protecting public health
May 30, 2012
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Today the House of Representatives passed the bipartisan Food and Drug Administration Reform Act of 2012. This bill reauthorizes a number of provisions in statute which support the critical work of the FDA and ensures patient access to life-saving, life-improving drugs, and medical devices. The legi...
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Corker, Blumenthal, Gingrey Praise Senate Passage of GAIN Act in FDA User Fee Reauthorization Bill
May 24, 2012
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U.S. Senators Bob Corker (R-TN) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and U.S. Representative Phil Gingrey, M.D., (R-GA) today praised Senate passage of the GAIN Act (S.1734) as part of the Food and Drug Administration User Fee Reauthorization bill. The GAIN Act, introduced by Corker and Blumenthal in Octob...
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An Invisible Threat
Apr 26, 2012
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Imagine a world where a simple cut, or common cold, can routinely lead to hospitalization and even death. Sixty years ago, that world was a reality. The advent of penicillin along with 40 years of medical innovation changed all that, resulting in a host of new antibiotic drugs that literally transfo...
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Gingrey, Corker, Blumenthal Praise Senate Committee Passage of GAIN Act in FDA User Fee Reauthorization Bill
Apr 25, 2012
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U.S. Representative Phil Gingrey, M.D., (R-GA) and U.S. Senators Bob Corker (R-TN) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) praised committee passage of the GAIN Act (S.1734) as part of the Food and Drug Administration User Fee reauthorization bill, which was reported out of the Senate Health, Education, Labo...
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