WASHINGTON – With health insurance premiums and health care costs on the rise, Energy and Commerce Committee Vice Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) today released the following statement regarding a new report by Families USA highlighting the importance of health care:

“Access to quality health care should be a basic right for everyone,” said U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), Vice Chair of the Committee on Energy and Commerce that has jurisdiction over health care policy. “The report by Families USA illustrates the importance of investing in preventative health care. Not only is it our moral obligation to provide care, but preventative care is more cost-effective. Without it, our emergency rooms would be overflowing with patients seeking basic health care, thereby resulting in increased costs for our already strained health care system.”

Click here to read the Families USA press release.