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Issue Position: Providing Access to Quality, Affordable Health Care

Issue Position

By: Jack Reed
By: Jack Reed
Date: Jan. 1, 2011
Issues: Health and Health Care

Issue Position: Providing Access to Quality, Affordable Health Care

Providing Access to Quality, Affordable Health Care
As a member of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Senator Reed has supported efforts to improve the quality of our health care system and reduce costs for consumers.

Reed has been nationally recognized for his work to provide all children with access to affordable health care. In December of 2006, Reed brokered a bipartisan agreement that prevented over 600,000 children nationwide from potentially losing their health insurance and provided $18 million to help alleviate pressure on Rhode Island's state budget.

He also earned recognition for increasing funds for vital immunization and disease prevention programs for children and adults.

In May of 2007, President Bush signed Reed's Trauma Care Systems Planning and Development Act into law. Reed's bill establishes critical care networks nationwide so that more paramedics and first responders can get trauma care patients to the right doctor at the right time. The law also creates a new competitive grant program for states like Rhode Island that have already begun establishing a trauma care system using national standards.


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