Henry Cuellar for Congress | Proven Leadership for Texas

Every American should have the right to affordable, comprehensive, and high quality health care. More than 41 million Americans have no health insurance. Illness should not result in bankruptcy or poverty. Losing a job should not mean losing coverage. Senior citizens should not be forced to choose between the drugs they need and the food they eat. Health care decisions should be made by those who have patients' interests at heart, not insurance bureaucrats concerned about the bottom line. With health care costs soaring, companies can't afford coverage and families face staggering cost increases.

Henry will work to expand the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) into a CHIP+ program where the working parents of children already in CHIP also can participate in preventative and necessary health care activities.

Henry will work to provide a real Medicare prescription drug benefit to provide all seniors with affordable drug prescriptions.

Henry will work to protect veteran's health benefits by restoring the funds that have been eliminated.

Henry will continue his efforts to expand telemedicine to areas that do not have sufficient health providers and will provide tax incentives and school loan forgiveness to doctors to rural areas.