Health Care

What Hank has done:

• As Southeast Regional Whip during the 111th Congress, helped lead passage of President Obama's historic health care reform legislation.
• As Chairman of the Judiciary Committee’s Competition Policy Subcommittee during the 111th Congress, co-authored provisions of the health care reform legislation in the House of Representatives that removed the insurance industry's immunity to anti-trust regulation.
• Actively defended Georgia’s critical PeachCare children’s healthcare program.
• Voted for the successful bill that directs the federal government to negotiate lower Medicare drug prices with pharmaceutical companies, and urged Medicare to re-examine its specialty-tier drug system. 

What Hank will do:

• Ensure that the health care reform legislation is implemented such that it protects consumers and empowers ordinary Americans seeking affordable health insurance.
• Continue to pursue additional funds for Georgia’s critical PeachCare program.
• Continue to support a public option to counter insurance industry price gouging.
• Introduced the “Neglected Infections of Impoverished Americans Act of 2011” – H.R. 528 – which would require Health and Human Services to report to Congress annually on the impact of parasitic diseases – mostly in poor, minority populations along the U.S.-Mexico border, the rural South, Appalachia and distressed urban areas – to address their threat and make funding recommendations on how to eradicate them.
• Continue to support investment in health care research.