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As I continue visiting every locality in the Fifth District this August to hear my constituents’ feedback about healthcare reform, one of the most common questions I receive is about the public option, the Health Insurance Exchange, and whether or not it all means a “government takeover of healthcare.” I’d like to explain the intended…
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Friday, Aug. 21 – Local News: More Harrisonburg street closings Thursday, Aug. 20 – Local News: Harrisonburg street work delays – Local News: Harrisonburg-Rockingham chamber CEO steps down – Elections ’09: Shannon gets business-group endorsements Wednesday, Aug. 18 – Local News: Waynesboro City Council work session agenda Tuesday, Aug. 18 – State News: Health department…
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A great example of how out of control the right and their monied benefactors in the health-care lobby have gotten came to me late last night in the form of a well-meaning question from a high-school friend on how the health-care reform currently being discussed in Congress would or would not impact vaccinations.
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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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