FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 2^nd, 2011

Erik's Correspondence Corner: St. Croix Bridge Project & Healthcare Reform

Washington, D.C. – In this week’s installment of  “Erik’s Correspondence Corner” video series, Representative Erik Paulsen (MN-03) directly responds to  questions sent in regarding the St. Croix Bridge project and reforms in the President’s new healthcare law. 

Rep. Paulsen takes a question from Jared in Eden Prairie who wrote in expressing his concerns with a provision included in the President's new healthcare law that prohibits consumers from using their own Flexible Savings Accounts or Healthcare Saving Accounts to purchase over-the-counter medications without a doctor's prescription - meaning higher costs for consumers, and increased burdens on primary physicians. Paulsen also discusses the St. Croix Bridge project after hearing from Jim in Edina and Jan in Coon Rapids.

Watch this week’s video here.

Each week, Representative Paulsen receives thousands of letters, emails, tweets, Facebook posts, and phone calls from constituents voicing their opinions. Through this video series, Representative Paulsen will regularly respond to constituent correspondence on a variety of topics. 

Paulsen, a champion of small business and advocate of free enterprise, entrepreneurship, and innovation currently serves on the House Ways and Means Committee, and is co-chair of the Congressional Medical Technology Caucus, as well as the U.S.–Korea Free Trade Working Group.

For more information on Rep. Paulsen’s work in Congress, and for past segments of Erik's Correspondence Corner, please visit www.paulsen.house.gov.

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