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Nov. 04, 2009
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Rep. Dina Titus supports House health insurance reform bill

By BENJAMIN SPILLMAN
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL

Rep. Dina Titus said she will support a health insurance reform proposed in the House, making it three of five members of Nevada’s congressional delegation supportive of reform bills.

House Resolution 3962 “takes important steps to make health insurance more affordable and accessible,” the Nevada Democrat said in a statement about her decision.

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    • In July, Titus voted against a version of reform presented to the House Education and Labor Committee, in part because a surtax would have been applied to individuals making $280,000 or more and families making $350,000 or more, to pay for it.

    The latest version of the health insurance reform bill would increase those thresholds to $500,000 and $1 million, respectively.

    “For more than six months I have discussed the need for health care reform with my constituents, and time and again I have heard from small-business owners who are struggling to afford health care coverage,” Titus said in her statement.

    “With a large number of small businesses in my suburban Southern Nevada district, it is critical that we do everything we can to strengthen their hand so they can be critical engines of growth in our community.”

    Titus joins Rep. Shelley Berkley, D-Nev., and U.S. Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., among Nevada elected officials in favor of proposed health care reform legislation.

    “I can’t stand here today and tell you that this legislation will solve every health care problem we face as a nation, but I can tell you this, that 460,000 Nevadans ... have no health insurance at all,” Berkley said Tuesday.

    “In my district alone, this bill will provide coverage for 163,000 of my fellow Nevadans. It’s not just the uninsured that will benefit. In Las Vegas, more than 200,000 households will receive credits to make insurance more affordable and over 16,000 small businesses will be provided with a tax credit to make it easier for them to provide coverage to their employees.”

    Rep. Dean Heller, R-Nev., whose district is mostly in the northern part of the state, and Sen. John Ensign, a Republican, have been highly critical of reform proposals.

    As a whole, Nevadans have mixed feelings about health reform proposals in Congress.

    Brad Coker, managing director of Mason-Dixon Polling & Research, said his most recent survey says 49 percent of voters statewide oppose reforms proposed by President Barack Obama and 43 percent are in favor.

    Coker said he doesn’t have figures broken down by congressional district, but that Berkley’s district is reliably Democratic and thus more likely to support reforms proposed.

    Heller’s district tilts Republican, and Titus’ is the most evenly split among the three. 

    “That could be a risky vote,” he said of Titus’ decision to support the initiative.

    Contact reporter Benjamin Spillman at bspillman@reviewjournal.com or 702-477-3861.

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    Frank Tilley wrote on November 04, 2009 09:38 PM: So, Titus is voting in favor of higher premiums, huh? Maybe she's too stupid to realize it, but that's exactly what the net effect of this 2,000 page monster is!

    thanks Dina baby, you really do your homework girl - whatever Madam Pelosi tells you to do, you just step right in line.

    Great, just great.


    Sam wrote on November 04, 2009 07:34 PM: THIS is news?
    That Titus is voting with fellow Democrats on another Tax and Spend (and freedom robbing) boondoggle?

    LVRJ: Please stop wasting your time on non-news "news".


    Thomas A. Carpenter wrote on November 04, 2009 06:56 PM: Glad to see Dina is hard at work becoming a 1 term Congresswoman ! She'll be showed the exit in 2012 along with the rest of the free spending liberals in Congress.


    T&S wrote on November 04, 2009 06:52 PM: Boooo Dina. Another Tax and Spender who has to be shown the door after the next election. I am tired of Dina and her ilk taxing me to pay for others.


    Gas Passer wrote on November 04, 2009 06:41 PM: M A R wrote on November 04, 2009 05:45 PM:

    Has Representative Titus read the 1900 plus page bill? Can Miss Titus explain the bill to the average voter in Nevada? How will we pay for this mess? Reprentative Titus has no answer for these questions! Tax payers and Nevada voters will have the final say next year.
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    Probably all that Dina Titus knows about the health care bill is that it will raise taxes, fees, and fines...so that is good for America...according to a dummycrat.


    IsDoes wrote on November 04, 2009 05:59 PM: Liberal Is, Liberal Does. Dina stop taking my money and giving it to people who have no intention of paying their own way. I can't wait to vote you out of office.


    Noppers wrote on November 04, 2009 05:56 PM: I do not support ObamaCare. No Way. ObamaCare is no more than taking my hard earned money, taxing it, and giving my money to someone else. I will vote accordingly against ClunkerCare. Noppers to Diana. How dare she wants to take my money that I can spend better myself on MY family!


    M A R wrote on November 04, 2009 05:45 PM: Has Representative Titus read the 1900 plus page bill? Can Miss Titus explain the bill to the average voter in Nevada? How will we pay for this mess? Reprentative Titus has no answer for these questions! Tax payers and Nevada voters will have the final say next year.


    Two Cents wrote on November 04, 2009 05:21 PM: Medicare is scheduled to be out of money in something like ten years or so. How will this albatross of a bill be funded? Does anyone care? I read something today that the Dems have an idea to roll over our 401k's into social security. Is anyone paying attention???


    Lou McAvoy wrote on November 04, 2009 05:14 PM: Ms.Titas. assure your constituents you have read the entire health bill, and can explain the provisions to every segment that is effected by this bill.


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