Refuting the Governor’s “true side-by-side comparison” on health care Joint statement by Senators Jochum, Hatch, Ragan, and Bolkcom “We welcome the fact that Governor Branstad is finally engaging in the health care debate. “Yet the ‘true side-by-side comparison’ he issued today is a disappointment. Below is a factual rebuttal. “At stake is health insurance for [...]
Today a subcommittee of the Iowa Senate’s Human Resources Committee voted in favor expanding Medicaid to cover 150,000 Iowans who would be otherwise uninsured.
Statement by State Senator Jack Hatch in response to Governor Branstad’s continued refusal to implement health care reform: “Governor Branstad should stop playing partisan political games and start helping improve Iowa’s health care. While 17 other states are making health insurance better and easier to purchase, Iowa’s governor is complaining about “process” rather than catching up. Iowans of both parties simply want Governor Branstad to work with the Obama administration to make buying private insurance easier and to help uninsured Iowans.
Legislative refusal driven by politics could be significant obstacle (DES MOINES) A newly released report by the Iowa Department of Human Services found that an expansion of Medicaid would reduce costs to Iowa taxpayers and individual consumers. “The administration’s findings about expanded Medicaid are great news for the health care and pocketbooks of Iowans,” Senator [...]
(DES MOINES) Expanding Medicaid coverage to nearly 80,000 additional Iowans will lower health care costs for all Iowans, the physician director of primary care services for Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines said Monday.
July 9, 2012: Senator Hatch gives a news conference surrounding the state-level benefits of expanding Medicaid per the Affordable Care Act.
Read the full story >>By a bipartisan vote of 32-18, the Iowa Senate approved Senate File 2315, a sweeping overhaul of Iowa’s mental health system on Monday, March 12. According to Senator Jack Hatch of Des Moines, the legislation’s floor manager: “This redesigned mental health system will provide equitable access to services statewide in the most effective manner. It [...]
House and Senate Democrats propose to build on Iowa’s success in minority university enrollment by focusing on minority middle school and high school students
At a statehouse news conference, Iowa legislators discussed why they are among more than 500 state legislators from all 50 states who have filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court supporting the constitutionality of the health law, arguing that “the minimum coverage provision of the Affordable Care Act is a valid exercise of Congress’s Commerce Clause and Necessary and Proper Clause powers.”
“Iowans all agree that our children are our future. This Children’s Budget improves the lives of Iowa children while helping struggling working families and creating jobs,” said Hatch. “The Children’s Budget targets additional dollars to low cost, high impact services that make a difference for children.”
