*Administration of Barack H. Obama, 2009 *

**Statement on Proposed Health Care Reform Legislation **

*June 19, 2009 *

Today the chairs of several committees in the House of Representatives unveiled their health care reform proposal. This proposal would improve the affordability, availability, and quality of health care and represents a major step toward the—our goal of fixing what is broken about health care while building on what works.

*Categories:* Statements by the President : Health care reform, proposed legislation.

*Subjects:* Health and medical care : Cost control reforms.

*DCPD Number:* DCPD200900484.