District breakdown of House Health Care Bill Impact

by: Jason Springer

Mon Aug 03, 2009 at 10:15:00 AM EDT

As members of Congress headed home for break, the House Energy and Commerce Committee passed out their version of the healthcare bill. They wanted to arm members of Congress with the facts, so they put out district by district breakdowns:

The Committee has prepared, for each member, a district-level analysis of the impact of the legislation. This analysis includes information on the impact of the legislation on small businesses, seniors in Medicare, health care providers, and the uninsured. It also includes an estimate of the impacts of the surtax that is used to pay for the legislation.

Here's a sampling of the information they provide for someone like Leonard Lance about the benefits for his district, even though he has said he will oppose the bill:

America's Affordable Health Choices Act would provide significant benefits in the 7th Congressional District of New Jersey: up to 18,200 small businesses could receive tax credits to provide coverage to their employees; 8,100 seniors would avoid the donut hole in Medicare Part D; 800 families could escape bankruptcy each year due to unaffordable health care costs; health care providers would receive payment for $30 million in uncompensated care each year; and 21,000 uninsured individuals would gain access to high-quality, affordable health insurance.

You can see the benefits by district for each member of Congress:

Robert E. Andrews (NJ-1)

Frank A. LoBiondo (NJ-2)

John H. Adler (NJ-3)

Christopher H. Smith (NJ-4)

Scott Garrett (NJ-5)

Frank Pallone Jr. (NJ-6)

Leonard Lance (NJ-7)

Bill Pascrell Jr. (NJ-8)

Steven R. Rothman (NJ-9)

Donald M. Payne (NJ-10)

Rodney P. Frelinghuysen (NJ-11)

Rush D. Holt (NJ-12)

Albio Sires (NJ-13)

You can see the full bill text and a summary put out by the committee as well. If you support this bill, your member of Congress needs to know about it. If you call, get your member of Congress to take the pledge. Our representatives are being inundated with phone calls and emails opposing healthcare. We need people who support the healthcare overhaul to start putting some action behind the talk, otherwise we'll be counting the time until the next chance to do something about healthcare.

Jason Springer :: District breakdown of House Health Care Bill Impact

Tags: energy and commerce committee, Albio Sires, Rush Holt, Rodney Frelinghuysen, Steve Rothman, Bill Pascrell, Donald Payne, Leonard Lance, Scott Garrett, Chris Smith, John Adler, Frank LoBiondo, Rob Andrews, national health reform, healthcare, (All Tags)

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