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healthFor far too long, America’s health insurance system has made health care more costly, less accessible and less efficient for families and small businesses.  Congressman Hoyer fought for enactment of critical insurance reforms that will put patients in control of their health care instead of insurance companies, while ensuring that the U.S. health care system continues to be the best in the world.

The new law increases competition to help bring down costs, ends the practice of denying coverage to those with pre-existing conditions, and bans annual and lifetime limits on health coverage benefits.    It enables parents to keep their children on their health care plans until they are 26 and makes small businesses eligible for tax credits to ease the burden of employee coverage.  The law strengthens Medicare and will make prescription coverage for seniors more affordable.  It also will expand coverage to 31 million American citizens.

In recent years, Congressman Hoyer has also voted for measures prohibiting insurance companies and employers from discriminating against people on the basis of genetic test results and eliminating discriminatory provisions against patients seeking treatment for mental illnesses.

Further, he’s supported increased oversight to help protect the health of American consumers.  Congressman Hoyer also voted to improve food safety efforts and supported a new law that allows FDA regulation of tobacco.

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