Pelosi’s Trillion Dollar Government Takeover of Health Care a Bad Prescription for America

By: Congressman Frank Lucas (Diary)  |  November 6th at 03:11 PM  | 

The debate over health care has reached a fevered pitch in our nation’s capital.  Over the last several months, millions of Americans have spoken out at town halls, have called and written in to the White House, and have even made personal visits to their members of Congress to express their strong opposition to government run health care.  Yet Speaker Pelosi has once again ignored | Read More »

SCHIP: A Good Program Marred by Bad Policy

By: Congressman Frank Lucas (Diary)  |  February 4th at 04:25 PM  | 

Today, the House of Representatives passed the Senate-amended reauthorization of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, or SCHIP, by a vote of 290-135.  This is a federally funded program that is supposed to provide health care to low-income children whose families cannot afford private health insurance.  While I believe that this is a good program and I support initiatives to bring health care to children | Read More »