Congressman Hoyer played a key role in the passage and enactment of the Affordable Care Act, which includes critical insurance reforms that put patients – not insurance companies – in control of their health care, while ensuring that the U.S. health care system continues to be the best in the world.
The Affordable Care Act is making a significant difference for Maryland families. Thanks to the law, up to 2.5 million Marylanders with pre-existing conditions such as asthma, cancer, or diabetes – including up to 320,000 children – no longer have to worry about being denied coverage or charged higher prices. Additionally, thousands of young adults in Maryland have gained health insurance because they can now stay on their parents’ health plans until age 26; and over 1.5 million Marylanders on private insurance have gained coverage for at least one free preventive health care service such as a mammogram, birth control, or an immunization. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the uninsured rate in Maryland is currently 6.1 percent, down from 12.9 percent in 2013. Through the Maryland Health Connection and our state’s expansion of Medicaid, over 400,000 Marylanders have enrolled in quality, affordable health care coverage.
Congressman Hoyer believes that Congress must continue to work to improve health care access and affordability and to strengthen the ACA and ensure all Americans can access affordable health coverage.
Congressman Hoyer is also a strong supporter of Social Security and Medicare, and has opposed efforts to privatize them. He is an advocate for ensuring their strength and long-term solvency and has fought to restore fiscal discipline to the federal government to ensure that these programs will be available for future generations. Congressman Hoyer has worked hard to strengthen the Medicare program and help ensure seniors can see their doctors. Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, Medicare costs – from premiums and deductibles to overall program spending – have slowed to well below the levels projected before the law passed.
Congressman Hoyer has also worked to improve and modernize the Social Security program by voting for investment in technology to enable the Social Security Administration to more efficiently process the increasing number of retirees and claims. He supported efforts to increase funding at Social Security to reduce the hearings backlog, prevent a backlog recurrence, and improve the speed and quality of services for retirees.
Tonight, President Trump stood before the United States Congress and gave a speech long on rhetoric but short on any real policy agenda.
I am pleased to welcome Miss Ojewumi as my guest for tomorrow evening's joint address to Congress.
The Calvert Recorder
By Tiffany Watson
The Women's March On Washington in January was the first step toward effective change in the country, for the Together We Will — Southern Maryland Chapter. Now the organization has decided to team up with Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md., 5th) in order to tackle the health security of their families.
On the National Day of Action to protect the Affordable Care Act, I was pleased to meet with a diverse, energetic group of people in Southern Maryland that is becoming more involved in government and politics.
Members of the Maryland Congressional delegation, led by U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), have written to Governor Larry Hogan (R-Md.) urging him to protect the needs of his constituents by speaking out against the repeal of the Affordable Care Act without a viable replacement.
Today's announcement by the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange that more than half a million Marylanders applied for or re-enrolled in health coverage during the 2017 open enrollment period is further proof of the positive impact the Affordable Care Act has had in our state and across the country.
The fact of the matter is, it was easy to say for a long period of time – as Republicans have done – the Affordable Care Act is not good, we are going to repeal it, and they offered 64, 65 times to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
I think this is, as John Kennedy said, a celebration of freedom, not so much a celebration of party, or frankly a celebration of President-Elect Trump himself.
As non-partisan CBO report warns of 32 million uninsured Americans and skyrocketing individual health care premiums, forum with Senators Cardin, Van Hollen and Congressmen Hoyer, Brown, Sarbanes underscores importance of ACA
Since its enactment in 2010, the Affordable Care Act has made a huge difference in the lives of Marylanders, including here in the Fifth District.