House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) issued a series of letters today urging state bar associations to help curb misleading and even dangerous attorney advertisements regarding lawsuit centered around pharmaceuticals. Specifically, the letter urges implementation of a “requirement that attorney commercials which may cause patients to discontinue medically necessary medications have appropriate warnings that patients should not discontinue medications without seeking the advic...
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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law Subcommittee Chairman Tom Marino (R-Pa.) issued the following statement praising the House Judiciary Committee’s approval of the Competitive Health Insurance Reform Act of 2017 (H.R. 372) by voice vote. “Obamacare is collapsing, and hardworking Americans are the ones who are suffering because of this poorly designed law. The American people are asking Congress to take action to stop the r...
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Congressman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) released the following statement after voting in support of a resolution, S. Con. Res. 3, to initiate the reconciliation process in order to repeal the Affordable Care Act, more commonly known as Obamacare: “Unaffordable premiums, deductibles through the roof, losing a doctor you’ve had for years, being dropped from the coverage you need – these are just some of the ways Obamacare isn’t working for Virginians. No amount of patches or delays can resuscitate Obama...
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Unaffordable premiums, deductibles through the roof, losing a doctor you’ve had for years, being dropped from the coverage you need – these are just some of the ways Obamacare isn’t working for Virginians. No amount of patches or delays can resuscitate Obamacare from its failures. The calls, letters, and emails I’ve received about what families, seniors, and businesses have experienced only emphasize this fact. That is exactly why Congress is getting to work on the process to repeal and replace ...
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“It’s a crazy system.” That’s what Bill Clinton had to say about Obamacare recently. It’s not often that we agree on something, but I feel the same way as President Clinton and so do the millions of Americans facing higher health care costs and reduced access as a result of this seriously flawed law. The Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, has been on a rocky road since its botched rollout in 2013. Patients have not been able to keep their health care plans as President Obama promised. Prem...
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Have you ever been floating on a raft, enjoying a day at the pool or on the river, only to find there was a leak? You patch it, but soon after another hole bursts through, followed by another, and another. At what point do you realize the raft just needs to be scrapped and a new one purchased? For six years, Americans have struggled with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. I opposed this costly, overly-complex, big government plan, which you might know as Obamacare, from the start. B...
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Mosquitoes are a pest during any given summer. But, this year they are raising particular alarm in light of the Zika virus outbreak to our south. As concerns about transmission in the United States have grown, Members of Congress on both sides of the aisle have called for a response from the federal government. You have probably heard a good deal about Zika virus already. Though there are several ways the virus can spread, it is primarily transmitted by being bitten by an infected mosquito. For ...
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Congressman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) released the following statement on passage today of S. 304, the Conscience Protection Act, by a vote of 245-182 in the U.S. House of Representatives: “I am pro-life and strongly opposed to abortion. However, whether you are opposed to abortion or not, we should at a minimum be able to agree that the government cannot force health care providers to violate their own beliefs by performing an abortion. This is a matter that should transcend party affiliation. The ...
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It’s a problem that affects Americans in all parts of the country. It doesn’t discriminate across socioeconomic lines, distinguish between urban, suburban, and rural, or limit itself to the young or old. Today, the United States is in the throes of an epidemic of prescription opioid abuse and heroin use. The statistics are shocking. Approximately 46,000 Americans die from a drug overdose each year. Recent studies have shown that more than half of chronic prescription drug abusers received those ...
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There was a big victory for the United States Constitution in Washington this week. In an historic decision, a federal judge ruled in favor of the separation of powers in the Constitution and the voice of the American people in the legislative process. While President Obama may have forgotten, the American people know that it is Congress who writes our laws, not the White House. However, the President has acted unconstitutionally on many occasions to rewrite our laws. Back in 2014, for the first...
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