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As the 10-year mark of the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) passage approaches, Republican Arkansas Rep. Bruce Westerman is introducing legislation to increase access to health care and give states more freedom within the framework of the ACA Monday night.
Republicans had to surrender their hopes of repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act when they lost the House in 2018. Westerman said his wide-ranging "Fair Care Act" leans into the "free market" aspects of the ACA exchanges.
A new, 200-page healthcare proposal by a GOP House lawmaker goes after hospital consolidation and pricing as part of a sweeping attempt to cut costs and increase coverage.
The legislation from Rep. Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.), who has been working on it for more than a year and a half even though he doesn't sit on any House health committee, signals the mounting unrest among individual members of Congress over high healthcare costs. This is feeding into the momentum from both sides to address hospital consolidation.
GOP Rep. Bruce Westerman wants to put federal forest management at the top of Congress's list of priorities for 2019 and avoid a repeat of 2018's deadly wildfire season.
Westerman wants to amend the House Committee on Natural Resources' rules package and carve out a specific policy jurisdiction on managing federal forests, a move the Arkansas representative hopes will force lawmakers to focus on crafting policies that include more active forest management.
Everyone knows budgeting isn't the most interesting conversation starter. Friends and co-workers are unlikely to discuss their money-delegating procedures, and even the latest and greatest budget won't grab headlines – that is, until part of the U.S. government is shut down over funding disagreements. Current government closures have already made history as the longest on record, affecting 800,000 federal workers with no end in sight.
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