Lobbying in Washington DC

I just returned from Washington DC where I, along with about 700 other members of the National Association of Health Underwriters attended our annual Capital Conf. We spent two days on capital hill lobbying for specific health care reform bills with our senators and congressmen(and women).

This is by far my favorite conference. To go into your representative's office and sit down at a table with them or their legislative aide and discuss the issues that concern you is absolutely facinating!

We discussed issues on the expansion of the Schips program, improvements for health savings accounts that we believe will encourage further adoption by employers, and several others. For a full list of issues we talked about visit the nahu web-site at www.nahu.org. We also talked about NAHU's Health Access Plan. This is our recommendations for reforming health care while still keeping it in the private market. If you'd like to read through these recommendations also visit the nahu web-site, on the front page go to "What are we doing about Single Payer" and click on the Health Access Plan. As always, I would love to get your feedback, suggestions, critisisms, etc. This is how the system works!!

I also did a 2 hour presentation on Consumer Directed Health Care for the San Antonio Association of Health Underwriters. They are a great group of people and had about 175 agents and employers in attendance. Thank you to Will Haff the president of the association for inviting me to speak there.

This week I am off to Wisconsin where it is 11 degrees to do the play "America's Health Care System on Trial". You know I have to be passionate about what I do to go Wisconsin in the freezing weather. I grew up in Ohio but have been in Texas for over 20 years, so, the bloods a little thin : )

If you havent seen our play YOU NEED TO! I will be in Indiana on the 29th of Feb, Central KY on the 4th of March and then back to Dallas for a presentation at the Studio Movie Grill in Dallas. This is one you could easily attend!! For more information about the Dallas presentation visit www.dahu.org. This is something you need to see BEFORE you make up your mind about who has the best plan for health care reform. The promises of FREE HEALTH CARE FOR ALL may just be too good to be true.

We present both the private and government side of health care and of course, its a comedy so I promise you won't be bored!

Have a great week and say a little prayer for me out in the cold.