Late
last week, Cleveland Tea Party blogged about the re-emergence of the Health Care
Compact as a key part of the solution in rolling back Obamacare. Rep. Tom Price,M.D. (R-GA) is President-Elect Trump’s nominee to head up Health and Human
Services, and Price is a longtime advocate of the Health Care Compact.
Last
year, the Ohio House passed the Ohio Health Care Compact, and then the bill
stalled. It was supposed to come to a vote in the Senate but nothing happened. However,
with the incoming administration and Rep. Price’s upcoming nomination,
something is percolating in Columbus. The Senate Committee is finally planning to reconsider the bill (and hopefully get the bill passed out of Committee for a vote).
The
committee reviewing the legislation is the Government Oversight
and Reform, and that committee website is here.
At this link, you can access the Chair, Sen. Bill Coley (R);
Vice-Chair Bill Seitz (R); and Ranking Minority Member Kenny Yuko (D). You can
access these and the rest of the members of the Committee by phone or by email.
Urge them to support the Ohio Health Care Compact (HB 34); if you are emailing,
just click on the committee member's picture to access the "contact" options, then choose the health-related drop-down subject line and type in that you
support putting the Ohio Health Care Compact before the full Senate. That’ll take a few seconds. And if you
have a little bit more time, call or email them to let them know WHY you
support it.
If you previously submitted proponent testimony in support of the
Ohio Health Care Compact in 2014 or 2015, this is the time to update your
testimony and resubmit it directly to Chair, Sen. Bill Coley. Or write up a few paragraphs now and email the Chair.
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