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While serving on the Health Subcommittee of the Energy and Commerce Committee, which handles healthcare policy, Congressman Braley has been involved in many of the most recent discussions about healthcare reform.  Below you will find more information on some of these recent hearings:

• Making Health Care Work for American Families:  Saving Money, Saving Lives --Thursday, April 2, 2009

• Making Health Care Work for American Families:  The Role of Public Health --Friday, March 27, 2009

• Making Health Care Work for American Families:  Improving Access to Care --Tuesday, March 24, 2009 
• At Rep. Braley's request, Dr. Kitchell, President-elect of the Iowa Medical Society, testified at this hearing about access to care in rural areas.

• Making Health Care Work for American Families:  Ensuring Affordable Coverage --Tuesday, March 17, 2009
  

• Making Health Care Work for American Families:  Designing a High Performing Healthcare System --Tuesday, March 10, 2009

• H Con Res 48, Health Care for All Women Act
• H Res 274, Celebrating National Nutrition Month
• HR 463, Prevention First Act
• HR 484, Chiropractic Health Parity for Military Beneficiaries Act
• HR 577, Vision Care for Kids Act
• HR 745, Pancreatic Cancer Research & Education Act
• HR 914, Physician Workforce Enhancement Act -- Reported out of House Energy & Commerce Committee on March 4, 2009
• HR 1017, Chiropractic Care Available to All Veterans Act
• HR 1204, Community Pharmacy Fairness Act
• HR 1210 Arthritis Prevention, Control and Cure Act
• HR 1246, Early Hearing Detection and Intervention -- Act Passed the House on March 30, 2009
• HR 1380, Josh Miller HEARTS Act
• HR 1402, Catalyst to Better Diabetes Care Act
• HR 1441, Ryan Dant Healthcare Opportunity Act
• HR 1616, Early Treatment for HIV Act
• HR 1625, Equity and Access for Podiatric Physicians Under Medicaid Act
• HR 1708, Ending the Medicare Disability Waiting Period Act
• HR 1740, Breast Cancer Education and Awareness Requires Learning Young Act
• HR 1884, National Health Service Corps Improvements Act
• HR 1940, Wellness Trust Act
• H. Con. Res. 40, Expressing the need for enhanced public awareness of traumatic brain injury and support for the designation of a National Brain Injury Awareness Month.
• H.R.2, Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 -- Passed the House on January 14th, 2009 -- Signed into law on February 4^th, 2009
• H.R. 362, Rural Hospital Assistance Act of 2009
• H.R. 616, To amend part B of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for an exemption of pharmacies and pharmacists from certain Medicare accreditation requirements in the same manner as such exemption applies to certain professionals.

• HR 2915, National Health Service Corps Scholarship and Loan Repayment Programs Reauthorization Act of 2007
• HR 2827, Medicare Equity and Accessibility Act of 2007

• HR 3, Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2007 HR 4, Medicare Prescription Drug Price Negotiation Act of 2007
• HR 507, Vision Care for Kids Act of 2007
• HR 552, Pulmonary and Cardiac Rehabilitation Act of 2007
• HR 579, Military Retirees Health Care Protection Act
• HR 621, Home Oxygen Patient Protection Act of 2007
• HR 748, Medicare Access to Rehabilitation Services Act of 2007
• HR 819, Prevention First Act
• HR 1108, Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act
• HR 1113, Inflammatory Bowel Disease Research Enhancement Act
• HR 1157, Breast Cancer and Environmental Research Act of 2008
• HR 1279, Direct Support Professionals Fairness and Security Act of 2007
• HR 1283, Arthritis Prevention, Control, and Cure Act of 2008
• HR 1322, Emergency Retiree Health Benefits Protection Act of 2007
• HR 1343, Health Care Safety Net Act of 2008
• HR 1367, Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act of 2007
• HR 1521, Universal Health Act of 2007: Repeal of the Late Enrollment Penalty in Medicare Part D
• HR 1554, Chiropractic Health Parity for Military Beneficiaries Act
• HR 1647, To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to include podiatrists as physicians for purposes of covering physicians services under the Medicaid Program.
• HR 1655, Children's Access to Reconstructive Evaluation & Surgery (CARES) Act of 2007
• HR 1820, Tax Equity for Health Plan Beneficiaries Act of 2007
• HR 1823, Ambulatory Surgical Center Medicare Payment Modernization Act of 2007
• HR 1845, Medicare Durable Medical Equipment Access Act of 2007
• HR 1881, Expanding the Promise for Individuals With Autism Act of 2007
• HR 1884, National Health Service Corps Improvement Act of 2007
• HR 1983, Optometric Equity in Medicaid Act of 2007
• HR 1990, Medicare Cost Contract Extension and Refinement Act of 2007
• HR 2045, PLAY Every Day Act
• HR 2066, Medicaid Advanced Practice Nurses and Physician Assistants Access Act of 2007
• HR 2122, Safe Nursing and Patient Care Act of 2007
• HR 2147, Healthy Kids Act of 2007
• HR 2353, Cancer Screening, Treatment, and Survivorship Act of 2007
• HR 2384, Nurse Faculty Higher Education Act
• HR 2472, Essential Oral Health Care Act of 2007
• HR 2514, Assured Funding for Veterans Health Care Act
• HR 2549, Medicare Secondary Payer and Workers' Compensation Settlement Agreements Act of 2007
• HR 2683, Physician Workforce Enhancement Act of 2008
• HR 2676, Access to Cancer Clinical Trials Act of 2007
• HR 2723, Children's Health Care Quality Act
• HR 2762, To amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize the special diabetes programs for Type I diabetes and Indians under that Act.
• HR 2805, Medicare Medical Nutrition Therapy Act of 2007
• HR 2860, Health Care Access and Rural Equity (H-CARE) Act of 2007
• HR 2914, Medicare IVIG Access Act of 2007
• HR 2922, Preventing Diabetes in Medicare Act of 2007
• HR 3090, Patient and Pharmacy Protection Act of 2007
• HR 3140, Saving Our Community Pharmacies Act of 2007
• HR 3195, ADA Amendments Act of 2008
• HR 3294, Promoting Wellness for Individuals with Disabilities Act of 2007
• HR 3326, Early Treatment for HIV Act of 2007
• HR 3339, Bruce Vento Ban Asbestos and Prevent Mesothelioma Act of 2007
• HR 3368, Pulmonary Hypertension Research and Education Act of 2007
• HR 3372, Emergency Contraception Education Act of 2007
• HR 3453, Community Clinical Laboratory Fairness in Competition Act of 2007
• HR 3700, Fair Medicaid Drug Payment Act of 2007
• HR 3717, Healthy Workforce Act of 2007
• HR 4054, Prevention Through Affordable Access Act
• HR 4105, Medicare Recovery Audit Contractor Program Moratorium Act of 2007
• HR 5174, Nursing and Allied Health Education Preservation Act of 2008
• HR 5176, Community Mental Health Services Improvement Act
• HR 5268, To provide for a temporary increase of the Federal medical assistance percentage under the Medicaid Program, and for other purposes.
• HR 5449, No Discrimination in Health Insurance Act of 2008
• HR 5604, Medicare Part D Home and Community Services Copayment Equity Act of 2008
• HR 5613, Protecting the Medicaid Safety Net Act of 2008
• HR 5615, Group Health Plan Prosthetics Parity Act of 2007
• HR 6381, Medical Device Safety Act of 2008
• HR 5998, Protecting Children's Health Coverage Act of 2008