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Last week, I held six “Tom in Your Town” events around the Fifth District to hear my constituents’ questions and opinions about how we can solve the health-care crisis in this country. Many people, including myself, worried that we were moving too quickly and spending too much to fix the problem, so I insisted that…
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A. Jerry Benson, PhD., vice provost for Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Health and Human Services at James Madison University, has joined the RMH Board of Directors. Benson also is a professor of graduate psychology at JMU. In 2007, he co-founded the JMU-RMH Collaborative with RMH President and CEO Jim Krauss.
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As I return home from Congress for an extended work period in the district, I will be devoting most of my time to discussing health care reform with constituents and doctors. For weeks, I made clear to Congressional leaders that we should not rush a vote on health care. I have already met with over…
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As our health-care debate continues, I’m reminded that Virginians hired me last fall to help change the way things are done in Washington and to make sure the federal government is more responsible with taxpayer dollars, even in times of crisis. Reforming our health-care system is essential to ensuring a prosperous future and it cannot…
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The American people are understandably queasy.” – Barack Hussein Obama, July 22, 2009. What is making the American people queasy is a Congress that does not pay attention to those who hired them in the first place. What is making the American people queasy is a Congress that does not do the job for which…
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“Almighty God hath created the mind free.” So Thomas Jefferson opened his Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom. In that founding document of our Commonwealth, Jefferson went on to decry fallible religious or political leaders who would try to influence freedom of conscience through social or political pressure, begetting “habits of hypocrisy and meanness.”
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It appears people have married the health-care system in this country. Americans are either unconvinced or unwilling to acknowledge that our health-care system is corrupt, under-serving, unmanageable and outright dangerous.
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Most Americans take deep pride in the quality of our nation’s medical care, but also share deep concerns about the skyrocketing cost and shrinking accessibility of health care. The rising price of health care and insurance is crushing many of our local businesses and our working families, while entitlement programs related to health care threaten…
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This Fourth of July, America celebrates its 233rd birthday. Concurrent with the celebration, over 6,000 immigrants were naturalized as citizens in commemoration programs throughout the United States (including New Jersey’s Liberty Island and Betsy Ross House in Pennsylvania). Unfortunately, millions of American residents who are “yearning to breathe free,” who work hard, pay taxes, and…
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