There is nothing courageous about asking seniors and middle-class families who have already borne the brunt of this recession to shoulder painful cuts just to finance the policies driving our deficit - such as oil company subsidies, trillion-dollar tax cuts for millionaires and special-interest giveaways. The House Republican budget, presented by Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., would protect these extravagancies at the expense of financial aid for 1.4 million students, nearly 500,0... Read more

The recently passed 2012 budget resolution passed by the House Majority raises costs on seniors under Medicare and proceeds to give millionaires another trillion dollar tax cut. Details are below: The Republican budget ends the Medicare guarantee and replaces it with a voucher system where seniors go out into the private market to buy their own health insurance. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office states that, under the GOP plan, seniors “would bear a much larger share of their health ca... Read more

Congressman Ted Deutch has signed on as a cosponsor of H.R. 965, the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act of 2011. The Translational Genomics Research Institute conclusively linked the routine use of antibiotics in food-animal production to deadly, antibiotic-resistant MRSA that can infect humans. The study demonstrated that the deadly strain of MRSA originated from a weaker bacteria strain that could be cured with antibiotics. Once in animals, the bacteria became resistant to a... Read more

Rep. Ted Deutch spoke in opposition to H.R. 3, legislation advanced by the Republican leadership that radically infringes on women's reproductive rights and even levies taxes on women and businesses whose private health insurance plans offer coverage for abortion services. Read more

Rep. Ted Deutch will be meeting with constituents throughout Florida’s 19th district this week to talk about how we can reduce the deficit without abandoning our nation’s most vital economic and moral priorities. Last week, House Republicans passed a budget that further cuts taxes for the wealthiest Americans all the while privatizing Medicare and slashing Medicaid for low-income children, Pell Grant funding for 10 million college students, and billions of dollars in scientific research at the N... Read more

Congressman Ted Deutch (FL-19) joined his colleagues on the House Democratic Seniors Task Force for a press conference on the recently unveiled Republican budget plan that will replace Medicare with vouchers for private insurance and reduce Medicaid benefits relied on by nursing home patients, impoverished children, permanently disabled Americans, and millions of low-income workers. Video and excerpts of Rep. Deutch's remarks are available below. Speech Excerpts: "For seniors, this plan is no pa... Read more

In a Huffington Post opinion piece, Congressman Deutch argues against Governor Rick Scott's plan to privatize Medicaid and hand taxpayer dollars over to for-profit HMO's at the expense of quality care for low-income Floridians and important investments like cancer research. Governor Scott One Step Closer to Handing Medicaid Over to For-Profit HMOs By Congressman Ted Deutch (D-FL) Republicans in Tallahassee are on a fast track towards decimating health care in Florida. Today, the Florida House Bu... Read more

As part of his ongoing effort to reduce the deficit and make health care more affordable for all Americans, Congressman Ted Deutch has cosponsored the Public Option Deficit Reduction Act with Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey (D-CA). This legislation would establish a robust public option and build on the reforms put in place by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act signed by President Barack Obama in 2010. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the creation of a public health care plan... Read more

Today, exactly one year since President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Congressman Ted Deutch (D-FL) will hold a town hall meeting focused on the enactment of health care reform. “Those opposed to health care reform charged this law would mean socialized medicine, death panels for seniors, and devastating job losses,” said Congressman Deutch. “Now, a year later, we see new protections for patients, cheaper prescription drugs for seniors under Medicare, and 1.5 milli... Read more

Congressman Ted Deutch has cosponsored H.R. 1041, the Fairness in Medicare Bidding. Created in the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003, the goal of the program was to improve quality of service and eliminate excess costs within Medicare. While everyone supports competition and savings, the program is anything but competitive. Shortly after the program was first implemented, Congress legislatively delayed it for 18 months due to critical flaws in the bidding process, which produced fewer competito... Read more