Access To Health Care Paramount

WASHINGTON – With health insurance premiums and health care costs onthe rise, Energy and Commerce Committee Vice Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO)today released the following statement regarding a new report by Families USA highlighting the importance of health care:

"Access to quality health care should be a basic right for everyone,"said U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), Vice Chair of the Committee onEnergy and Commerce that has jurisdiction over health care policy. "Thereport by Families USA illustrates the importance of investing inpreventative health care. Not only is it our moral obligation toprovide care, but preventative care is more cost-effective. Without it,our emergency rooms would be overflowing with patients seeking basichealth care, thereby resulting in increased costs for our alreadystrained health care system."

Click here to read the Families USA press release.