H.R.3400 - Empowering Patients First Act

To provide for incentives to encourage health insurance coverage, and for other purposes. view all titles (4)

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  • Official: To provide for incentives to encourage health insurance coverage, and for other purposes. as introduced.
  • Short: Help Efficient, Accessible, Low-cost, Timely Healthcare (HEALTH) Act of 2009 as introduced.
  • Short: Small Business Health Fairness Act of 2009 as introduced.
  • Short: Empowering Patients First Act as introduced.

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02/11/10
RE: H.R.3400

We have solutions, like HR 3400. But if the President is simply looking for a political solution to bad policy, there's very little room for negotiation. ...

Source: Big Government (blog)
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01/31/10
Straight From The Horse’s Mouth…

...the answers would come directly from the horse’s mouth. On the health-care issue, the president was well-versed. He had read H.R.3400 and said it was important to put any bill to the test. Lowering health-care premiums, tort reform and selling insuran

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01/30/10
I hope Houck has guts to stand up for Va.

On another health care note, why is there no word mentioned about HR 3400, which is “Empowering Patients First”? This is the Republican health care bill. ...

Source: Culpeper Star Exponent
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01/29/10
RE: H.R.3400

Price specifically pointed to HR 3400, the Republican backed legislation that addresses health care reform, which he introduced last summer. ...

Source: Examiner.com
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01/29/10
RE: H.R.3400

Price specifically pointed to HR 3400, the Republican backed legislation that addresses health care reform, which he introduced last summer. ...

Source: Examiner.com
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01/29/10
Damage caps are vital in better care, controlling costsand keeping jobs

A two-second Internet search would turn up the Republicans' house bill for health reform, HR 3400, which was submitted on July 30. ...

Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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01/29/10
RE: H.R.3400

Price specifically pointed to HR 3400, the Republican backed legislation that addresses health care reform, which he introduced last summer. ...

Source: Examiner.com
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01/28/10
RE: H.R.3400

Specifically, in the area of health care, this bill, HR 3400, that has more cosponsors than any health care bill in the House. ...

Source: Washington Post
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01/28/10
RE: H.R.3400

The Empowering Patients First Act, HR 3400, sponsored by Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), a physician and chairman of the House Republican Study Committee, ...

Source: National Center for Policy Analysis
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01/28/10
RE: H.R.3400

Specifically, in the area of health care, this bill, HR 3400, that has more cosponsors than any health care bill in the House. ...

Source: Washington Post
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01/28/10
A SECOND NEW APPROACH TO HEALTH REFORM

The Empowering Patients First Act, HR 3400, sponsored by Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), a physician and chairman of the House Republican Study Committee, ...

Source: National Center for Policy Analysis
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01/28/10
Price questions Obama at House GOP conference

Specifically, in the area of health care, this bill, HR 3400, that has more cosponsors than any health care bill in the House. ...

Source: Washington Post
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11/30/09
The Republican alternatives (Part II)

Tom Price, also a doctor, introduced HR 3400, the Empowering Patients First Act. The “budget neutral proposal” increases patients' control over their health ...

Source: Examiner.com
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11/17/09
Wednesday's sound off

First of all, Republicans had HR 3400. Republicans offered over 800 amendments to the current bill that were rejected. They weren't even allowed in to even ...

Source: Pottstown Mercury
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11/16/09
Blunt favors status quo over health care reform

The 219-page HR 3400 that the Republicans generated seems to be written for the benefit of the insurance companies. Yes, I have read both. 2. ...

Source: News-Leader.com
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11/08/09
Letters, faxes, and e-mail

The author cites the bill (HR 3400) proposed by Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., who is a physician. The author contends it offers superior reform to any Democratic ...

Source: Press-Register - al.com
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11/05/09
RE: H.R.3400

When asked which piece of existing legislation they most support, 44 percent selected HR 3400, 15 percent selected HR 3200, 7 percent selected the Senate ...

Source: PR Web (press release)
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11/05/09
Physicians Losing Control of Medicine: New Survey Reports Medical Malpractice ...

When asked which piece of existing legislation they most support, 44 percent selected HR 3400, 15 percent selected HR 3200, 7 percent selected the Senate ...

Source: Earthtimes (press release)
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11/04/09
Key features of the alternative House Republican health care plan (HR 3400)

The Congressional Budget Office says the GOP alternative health bill would cut federal deficit spending by $68 billion over the next decade, while reducing ...

Source: phillyBurbs.com
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11/04/09
Key features of the alternative House Republican health care plan (HR 3400)

The Congressional Budget Office says the GOP alternative health bill would cut federal deficit spending by $68 billion over the next decade, while reducing ...

Source: phillyBurbs.com
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10/31/09
GOP can back health-care reform, just not this plan

HR 3400, by the Republican Study Committee, which allows insurance plans to be purchased across state lines and includes provisions I authored to allow ...

Source: The Tennessean
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10/30/09
RE: H.R.3400

These concepts are the basis of the Republican alternative, HR 3400, of which I am a co-sponsor. With Congress and the presidency securely in control of the ...

Source: Shreveport Times
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10/29/09
Congressman Wilson talks healthcare reform in Beaufort

Congressman Wilson also talked with constituents about the Republican Alternative Health Care Reform Bill - HR 3400, saying it would allow residents to buy ...

Source: WTOC
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10/29/09
RE: H.R.3400

That's the approach taken by the numerous patient-centered bills introduced by Republicans, including my own Empowering Patients First Act, HR 3400. ...

Source: The Hill
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10/28/09
Rep. Marsha BlackburnFrom Tennessee Republican Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn

HR 3400, by the Republican Study Committee, which allows insurance plans to be purchased across state lines. HR 3400 includes a provision by Blackburn to ...

Source: WDEF News 12
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10/25/09
HEALTHCARE SKEPTICS OFFER REAL SOLUTIONS

But he has authored HR 3400 - one of about forty bills introduced by Price and his conservative colleagues in an effort to produce the very solutions they ...

Source: Record-Searchlight
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10/23/09
Wilson says GOP's health bill serves public

The Republicans' alternative plan, Empowering Patients First Act, also known as HR 3400, is a better choice, he said to about 150 people at Oakwood-Windsor ...

Source: Augusta Chronicle
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10/22/09
RE: H.R.3400

... bills pertaining to healthcare reform (such as HR 3400) as well as numerous amendments, all of which have been struck down by the Democrat led congress. ...

Source: Examiner.com
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10/21/09
Remind the Speaker Who Really Influences Votes - You

... a government takeover of health care and the need for patient-centered reforms like HR 3400, the Empowering Patients First Act. We will keep fighting, ...

Source: RedState (blog)
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10/20/09
Pawlenty proposes state health insurance pact

AP I am still curious how someone who's medical condition cause him or her to be denied insurance is helped by the republican "idea" HR 3400. … read more ...

Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune
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