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Health Care Reform

Reforming Health Care is a Necessary Step in Rebuilding Our Economy

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FINAL LEGISLATION

• Reconciliation Bill Text

  Committee Sites

  Committee on Energy & Commerce

  Committee on Ways & Means

  Committee on Education & Labor

  Committee on Rules

• Text of the Senate Amendments to H.R. 3590 (Senate health bill)
• 9 Page Manager's Amendment - posted on 3/20 
• Section by Section of the Reconciliation Bill
• Reconciliation Bill Makes Key Improvements To Senate-passed Bill
• Regular Procedure to Pass Health Insurance Reform
• Immediate Benefits
• Fact Sheet

Cost and Health Insurance Reform:

• Four Key Points You Need To Know About the CBO Score
• Full CBO Score
• Health Care by the Numbers
• Cost of Inaction
• Paying for Reform
• Strong Cost Containment Measures
• Preventing Waste, Fraud & Abuse
• Summary of Revenue Provisions

• Letter: Nation’s Leading Economists Urge Congress To Pass Health Insurance Reform (3/11/2010)

Summary Documents:

• Health Reform Q&A

  Interactive Graphic: What the New Health Insurance Reform Law Does For You This Year

• Timeline for Implementation
• 3 Page Summary
• Section by Section of the Reconciliation Bill
• Reconciliation Bill Makes Key Improvements To Senate-passed Bill
• Health Care By the Numbers: Open & Transparent Process
• Immediate Benefits
• Cost of Inaction
• Fact Sheet
• District By District Impact

Insurance Reforms:

• Consumer Protections & Insurance Market Reform
• Guaranteed Benefits
• The Health Insurance Exchanges
• Making Coverage Affordable
• Estimated Savings

System Reforms:

• Strengthening the Nation's Health Workforce
• Strong Cost Containment Measures
• Innovative Delivery System Reform
• Addressing Health and Health Care Disparities
• Rural America & Reform
• Preventing Disease and Improving the Public's Health 

How Health Insurance Reform Affects You:

• What Health Reform Does For You
• Immediate Benefits
• What's In It for Young Americans
• Women
• Health Insurance Reform: A Guide for Seniors
• Health Reform for Health Care Providers
• Families On the Individual Insurance Market
• Rural America & Reform
• Addressing Health and Health Care Disparities
• Health Reform for Native Americans
• Health Reform Q&A
  
• District By District Impact
• State By State Impact

Older Americans, Medicare, and Medicaid:

• Health Reform for Early Retirees
• Health Insurance Reform: A Guide for Seniors
• Strengthening Medicare
• Medicare Part D
• Medicare Advantage
• Preventing Waste, Fraud & Abuse
• Innovative Delivery System Reform
• Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) Program
• Maintaining and Improving Medicaid
• Reinsurance Program for Early Retirees 
• Implementing Medicare Cost Savings

Employers, Small Business, and Individuals:

• Shared Responsibility
• Employers and Health Reform
• Employer Responsibility Flow Chart
• Helping Small Businesses
• Small Business Guide
• Making Coverage Affordable
• Families On the Individual Insurance Market
• Reinsurance Program for Early Retirees
• Small Business Health Care Tax Credit Key Facts – WhiteHouse.gov 
• Small Business Health Care Tax Credit Clearinghouse – IRS.gov
• Setting the Record Straight on Employers and Health Reform
• State by State Table on Employers
  

Veterans and Military Service Men and Women:

• Health Insurance Reform Will Not Harm Military or Veterans’ Health Care
• Committee Chairmens' Statement Regarding TRICARE (March 21, 2010)

FACT CHECK:

• HealthReform.gov - Q&A 
• Health Reform Q&A
• MythBusters
• White House Reality Check Web Site
• Health Care By the Numbers: Open & Transparent Process
• Regular Procedure to Pass Health Insurance Reform
• History, CBO Refute Republicans’ Claims on Reform (Office of the Majority Leader, 3/18/10)
• PolitiFact.com
• FactCheck.org

Support:

• Statement of Administration Policy
• List of Organizations Expressing Support For Health Reform Legislation

Summary - Senate Legislation:

• Short Summary of the Legislation
• Detailed Summary of the Legislation
• Section-by-section Analysis with Changes Made by Title X included within Titles I-IX, where Appropriate
  

REPORTS & FACT SHEETS

Slideshow: A Presentation on Why We Needed Health Care Reform (Center for American Progress, 6/10/10)

Interactive Calculator: Health Reform Helps Small Businesses (Center for American Progress, 6/10/10)

By-the-Numbers: Health Reform Law Begins to Kick in for Seniors (Center for American Progress, 6/10/10)

State-by-State Report on Immediate Benefits under the Affordable Care Act (Office of the Speaker, 5/27/10)

Health Mandate Cost Calculator (National Retail Federation)

GO FOR IT, REPUBLICANS: GOP Seeks to Repeal Health Care Reform Benefits (Office of the Majority Leader, 3/25/10)

GOP Pushes Frivolous Lawsuits In Cash-Strapped States To Repeal Health Care Reform (Office of the Majority Leader, 3/25/10)

From Day One: Immediate Benefits Of Health Reform (Office of the Majority Leader, 3/23/10)

Republicans Want To Repeal Health Reform Benefits: OK, Which Ones? (Office of the Majority Leader, 3/20/10)

Momentum Grows For Passage Of Health Reform (Office of the Majority Leader, 3/19/10)

Has the GOP Thrown the Kitchen Sink at Health Reform Yet? (Office of the Majority Leader, 3/19/10)

History, CBO Refute Republicans’ Claims on Reform (Office of the Majority Leader, 3/18/10)

Highlights and Analysis of the CBO Report on Health Reform Reconciliation (Office of the Majority Leader, 3/18/10)

Has the GOP Thrown the Kitchen Sink at Health Reform Yet? They’ve Tried Everything Else… (Office of the Majority Leader, 3/17/10)

Experts Call Out GOP on Hypocrisy, GOP Owns Up To Legitimacy of Rule (Office of the Majority Leader, 3/17/10)

Hypocrisy: Watch What I Say, Not What I Do (Office of the Majority Leader, 3/17/10)

Republicans Vote Against Health Reforms For Seniors, Small Businesses & Families (Office of the Majority Leader, 3/17/10)

The Price of Inaction (Office of the Majority Leader, 3/16/10)

Health Reform & Its Immediate Impact (Office of the Majority Leader, 3/9/10)

Letter: Nation’s Leading Economists Urge Congress To Pass Health Insurance Reform (3/11/2010)

Health Care Reform: Doing Nothing Means Skyrocketing Costs (Office of the Majority Leader, 3/2/10)

STATEMENTS FROM LEADERSHIP & COMMITTEES

Office of the Majority Leader

• Hoyer Statement on New Patients’ Bill of Rights (6/22/10)
• Hoyer Statement on Health Care for Young Adults Under 26 (5/11/10)
• Hoyer Statement on Announcement of Early Retiree Reinsurance Program (5/4/10)
• Hoyer Statement on Health Care Reform Improvements Bill (3/25/10)
• Hoyer: Health Care Security for All Americans is Now the Law (3/23/10)
• Hoyer Opens Debate on Health Reform (3/21/10)
• Leader Hoyer Discusses Health Reform on NBC's "Meet the Press" (3/21/10)
• Hoyer Statement on the Rule for Health Reform Legislation (3/20/10)
• Hoyer Condemns Inflammatory Behavior at Health Reform Protest (3/20/10)
• Hoyer: Health Insurance Reform Is an Effort on Behalf of All Americans (3/20/10)
• Hoyer: Democrats Post Final Health Insurance Reform Legislation for 72-Hour Review (3/18/10)
• Hoyer Discusses Health Insurance Reform and Republican Hypocrisy on "Good Morning America" (3/17/10)
• Hoyer Statement on President Obama's Call to Move Forward on Health Reform (3/3/10)
• Hoyer Statement on Bipartisan Health Care Meeting (2/25/10)
• Hoyer Statement on Obama Health Reform Proposal & Bipartisan Meeting (2/22/10)
• Hoyer Statement on Senate Passage of Health Insurance Reform Legislation (12/24/09)
• Hoyer Delivers Opening Statement on Affordable Health Care for America Act (11/7/09)
• Hoyer Statement on the Affordable Health Care for America Act (10/29/09)

Office of the Speaker

• Pelosi Statement on President Obama Signing Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act (3/30/10)
• Pelosi: ‘Today, We Have the Opportunity to Enroll This Important Legislation to Send to the President’ (3/26/10)
• Pelosi: ‘Tonight, the House Voted to Strengthen Health Insurance Reform and Invest in Our Nation’s Students’ (3/25/10)
• Pelosi: ‘Health Insurance Reform Will Stand Alongside Social Security and Medicare in American History’ (3/23/10)
• Pelosi: ‘Today, We Have the Opportunity to Complete the Great Unfinished Business of Our Society and Pass Health Insurance Reform for All Americans’ (3/21/10)
• Pelosi on Health Reform Vote: ‘We Are on the Verge of Making Great History for the American People’ (3/20/10)
• Transcript of Pelosi, Democratic Leaders’ Press Conference on the Impact of Health Insurance Reform on Americans (3/18/10)
• Pelosi Remarks at Press Conference with Young Americans on Health Reform and Student Aid (3/17/10)
• Pelosi Remarks at Press Conference on Benefits to Seniors in Health Insurance Reform (3/16/10)
• Pelosi: ‘Health Insurance Reform Starts With Our Children’ (3/15/10)
• Pelosi: We Will Move Forward on Health Insurance Reform, Including Best Ideas of Democrats and Republicans (3/3/10)
• Pelosi: ‘Today We Are Delivering on the Promise of Making Affordable, Quality Health Care Available for All Americans’ (10/29/09)

Additional Leadership, Committees & Caucuses

• Tri-Committee: Historic Health Reform Approved (3/21/10)
• Committee Chairmens' Statement Regarding TRICARE
• Miller, Rangel, Waxman: Historic Bill to Provide Quality, Affordable Health Care for All Americans Heading to House Floor (10/29/09)
• Van Hollen Applauds the Introduction of the Affordable Health Care for America Act (10/29/09)
• Becerra Statement On Unified House Health Insurance Reform Bill (10/29/09)
  

Information from the White House

The Economic Case for Health Care Reform: Update (White House Council of Economic Advisors, 12/14/2009)

The Impact of Health Insurance Reform on State and Local Governments (White House Council of Economic Advisors, 9/15/2009)

Statement on Administration Policy: H.R. 3962 

Statement from President Obama on the Affordable Health Care for America Act

Statement on House Passage of H.R. 3962

Word from the White House: Introduction of the Affordable Health Care for America Act

President Obama’s Health Care Reform Web Site 

Share Your Story and Ideas About Why We Need Health Reform This Year 

Remarks by the President on Small Businessess and Health Insurance Reform (10/29/09)

The Lower Premiums, Stronger Businesses: How Health Insurance Reform Will Bring Down Costs for Small Business (10/29/09)

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HELPFUL LINKS ON HEALTH REFORM

- HHS - HealthCare.Gov
- White House Health Care Web Page
- Energy and Commerce Committee Health Care Web Page
- Ways and Means Committee Health Care Web Page
- Education and Labor Committee Health Care Web Page
- Speaker's Office Daily Mythbusters
- AARP – Health Care Reform Explained
- Third Way
- Center for American Progress
- Kaiser Family Foundation
- Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
- Trust for America's Health
- Commonwealth Fund
- Center for Studying Health System Change
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- Urban Institute
- Small Business Majority
- IRS.gov

Click here to view the health care reform clearinghouse archive