Minnesota Congressman John Kline, chairman of the Committee on Education and the Workforce, praised House passage of a bipartisan, bicameral agreement to fight the nation’s growing opioid epidemic. The agreement includes a legislative proposal championed by Kline's committee that will strengthen protections for infants born with drug exposure by requiring the Department of Health and Human Services to better ensure states are meeting current child welfare requirements.
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House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline -- along with Speaker Paul Ryan and others -- today unveiled a plan to replace ObamaCare and provide every American access to quality, affordable health care. Developed by the Task Force on Health Care Reform, the plan is the latest initiative of A Better Way, a bold policy agenda that will help tackle some of our country’s biggest challenges.
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John Kline issued the following statement today after the House voted to over-ride the President’s veto of the Restoring Americans’ Healthcare Freedom Reconciliation Act.
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Minnesota Congressman John Kline, the Chairman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, offered remarks today in support of the “Restoring Americans’ Healthcare Freedom Reconciliation Act,” legislation that eliminates the core provisions of ObamaCare that have hurt families, businesses, schools, and patients. The legislation Congress passed today will rein in our nation’s deficit by roughly half a trillion dollars.
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“I was proud today to support the 21st Century Cures Act, legislation that aims to reduce the reach of life-altering diseases by reforming our approach to medical innovation, and ultimately saving and improving lives."
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WASHINGTON – Minnesota Congressman John Kline, Chairman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, today issued the following statement in response to the Supreme Court’s decision in King v. Burwell: “The President’s health care law has led to higher costs, fewer jobs, and tremendous uncertainty for families and small businesses. Today’s decision does not change the fact that the law is fundamentally flawed, and it doesn’t change our resolve to repeal it. Our nation desperately needs a ...
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“The medical device industry is a significant economic driver and job creator in Minnesota, and I was pleased to help champion Rep. Paulsen’s bill to stop taxing medical devices that save and improve millions of lives in order to help fund the President’s flawed health care law."
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Senate leaders John Barrasso of Wyoming, Lamar Alexander of Tennessee and Orrin Hatch of Utah have said they want to preserve credits in the short term and then let states take over most of the rules for how insurance should be priced and sold if they want. House leaders Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, John Kline of Minnesota and Fred Upton of Michigan have come out in favor of new, advanceable and refundable tax credits.
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WASHINGTON – Minnesota Congressman John Kline issued the following statement today after supporting the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act, H.R. 2, which passed the U.S. House of Representatives with bipartisan support: “I am pleased Republicans and Democrats worked in a bipartisan way to do what our constituents sent us to Congress to do – come together to deliver solutions. This legislation strengthens and reforms Medicare, protects taxpayers, and reduces health care costs. Too ofte...
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“Right now, people are pretty dug in,” Kline said Wednesday. “The Democrats are pretty firmly supporting Obamacare, and that’s what you’d expect. But the point is, if King v. Burwell (the case before the Supreme Court questioning the exchanges) comes down the other way, then from their perspective, then you really do have something that has to be addressed. We want to make sure that we’re ready to do that, as well as a long-term replacement.”
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