Obamacare Insurance Rate Transparency At a recent Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing, I asked representatives of some of the nation’s largest health insurance providers if their companies expected that health insurance premiums for an average family would be cut by $2,500 a year, as promised by Barack Obama when campaigning for his health care bill now known as Obamacare. Not one... Read more »
Congressman Morgan Griffith (R-VA) today issued the following statement after introducing the Insurance Rate Transparency Act (H.R. 4633): “While campaigning in 2007, now-President Obama said ‘I have made a solemn pledge that I will sign a universal health care bill into law by the end of my first term as president that will cover every American and cut the cost of a typical family's premiums by u... Read more »
Helping Patients This column is not about Obamacare per se, but you can’t talk about patients without discussing Obamacare. I have voted to repeal Obamacare and will vote to repeal it again. I have also been active on the health care front in an effort to protect people from Obamacare. Notwithstanding my desire to repeal Obamacare, I have been seeking to advance legislation that would help patient... Read more »
Government-Run Health Care Fails Some Patients Recent reports by CNN Investigations indicate that delays in basic medical screenings at various Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals or clinics may have caused serious injuries or led to the deaths of a number of veterans throughout the country. According to CNN, at least 40 died while waiting for appointments at the Phoenix VA Health Care System. Many of... Read more »
Acre In, Acre Out The Federal Government owns approximately 81 percent of Nevada, part of the roughly 650 million acres of land it owns throughout the United States. Nearer to home, Uncle Sam owns approximately 53 percent of Craig County and 49 percent of Alleghany County according to sources in those counties, and owns significant portions of other counties in the Ninth District as well. About 95... Read more »
Congressman Morgan Griffith (R-VA) today was presented with the Visionary Award by the American Academy of Ophthalmology for his recent work in introducing the Compounding Clarity Act (H.R. 3089) and his continuing efforts related to compounded and repackaged drugs. The American Academy of Ophthalmology represents more than 31,000 members, making it the world’s largest educational and scientific o... Read more »
The Save American Workers Act On Thursday, April 3, the bipartisan Save American Workers Act, which would restore the standard American work week of 40 hours, passed the House in a vote of 247-179 with my strong support. This important bill would repeal Obamacare’s requirement that employers offer health care coverage to those working at least 30 hours per week. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has re... Read more »
Obamacare, Four Years Later Four years ago – on March 23, 2010 – President Obama signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare. President Obama and his Congressional allies drafted Obamacare as they wanted it, stringing together separate and distinct ideas to change our health care system, and set the timetables for the implementation of the law. Some... Read more »
Protecting Black Lung Benefits As you know, I support the repeal of Obamacare and believe it will eventually collapse under its own weight. As many feared, its rollout was problematic. Federal officials are now telling us that implementation of Obamacare is on track. But they told us the website was on track too. After refusing to work with Congress on altering or delaying portions of Obamacare, P... Read more »
Obamacare: “Losing on Both Ends” When trying to sell the American people on their plans for health care reform in February of 2010, then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said, “This [health care] bill is not only about the health security of America. It’s about jobs. In its life, it will create 4 million jobs — 400,000 jobs almost immediately.” Any student of history knows that when governmental... Read more »
