Health Care
As Chairman of the Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee, my priorities are making health care more available and more affordable.
America is facing a crisis in health care. While advances in technology have brought us treatments undreamed of by our grandparents, the cost of providing care has increased significantly. Low income families find it hard to afford health insurance. People with preexisting conditions often can’t get insurance at all, and even people with insurance can be financially ruined by catastrophic medical events. That’s not acceptable, and reform is desperately needed. Unfortunately, the government takeover of health care passed into law last year was not what was needed.
Medicare could, according to its Trustees, become insolvent by 2017. We should not replicate that model for the entire American healthcare system. We must preserve the doctor-patient relationship and not insert a bureaucrat between them. Intelligent competition, innovation, and smart regulation hold the power to solve the problems that face our healthcare system.
Memo on Healthcare from Rep. Pitts to Constituents (3/30/10)