[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 9 Engrossed in House (EH)]

H. Res. 9

                In the House of Representatives, U. S.,

                                                      January 20, 2011.
    Resolved, That the Committee on Education and the Workforce, the Committee 
on Energy and Commerce, the Committee on the Judiciary, and the Committee on 
Ways and Means, shall each report to the House legislation proposing changes to 
existing law within each committee's jurisdiction with provisions that--
            (1) foster economic growth and private sector job creation by 
        eliminating job-killing policies and regulations;
            (2) lower health care premiums through increased competition and 
        choice;
            (3) preserve a patient's ability to keep his or her health plan if 
        he or she likes it;
            (4) provide people with pre-existing conditions access to affordable 
        health coverage;
            (5) reform the medical liability system to reduce unnecessary and 
        wasteful health care spending;
            (6) increase the number of insured Americans;
            (7) protect the doctor-patient relationship;
            (8) provide the States greater flexibility to administer Medicaid 
        programs;
            (9) expand incentives to encourage personal responsibility for 
        health care coverage and costs;
            (10) prohibit taxpayer funding of abortions and provide conscience 
        protections for health care providers;
            (11) eliminate duplicative government programs and wasteful 
        spending;
            (12) do not accelerate the insolvency of entitlement programs or 
        increase the tax burden on Americans; or
            (13) enact a permanent fix to the flawed Medicare sustainable growth 
        rate formula used to determine physician payments under title XVIII of 
        the Social Security Act to preserve health care for the nation's seniors 
        and to provide a stable environment for physicians.
            Attest:

                                                                          Clerk.