Family Issues

Burgess and Green Legislation Provides Patients Cost Information for Health Care

| Posted in Press Releases

The Health Care Price Transparency Promotion Act directs the states to establish and maintain laws requiring disclosure of information on hospital charges. Additionally, the bill requires hospitals and health plans to make such information available to the public, and to provide individuals with information about estimated out-of-pocket costs for health care services.

President’s Job Council Members Cite Worries on Health Care Law

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President Obama repeatedly promised lower health care costs and insurance premiums. Now, the analysis of businesses executives from his own Council on Jobs and Competitiveness reflect deep worries about the costly job-crippling impacts and threats to employee-provided insurance from the President’s signature health care law.

Dr. Burgess Proposes Help for Kidney Transplants

| Posted in Burgess in the News

WFAA TV updates the inspiring story of two North Texas residents connected by one little boy: the boy's father who needed a kidney and the boy's teacher whose caring gift has taught a lifelong lesson. Now, in the months after the transplant, the father now worries about the cost of medications to keep the new kidney functioning, and Congressman Michael Burgess pushes for a practical, compassionate way to help all kidney transplant patients.