State Representative Ericksen continuing healthcare town halls into fall
On Tuesday, September 29th, Representative Doug Ericksen will host a healthcare town hall in Bellevue.
“As the national health care debate continues, we want to provide solutions that would address our state’s problems. Our plan focuses on fixing what is broken, and leaving what works in place,” Ericksen said. “We want to provide solutions to the people of Washington.”
Ericksen is the ranking Republican member of the House Health Care & Wellness Committee, chaired by Democratic Representative Eileen Cody.
Ericksen has hosted three other town halls so far this summer. By the end of each town hall he hopes the people will hear his plan and want to buy it.
In an interview with healthcareWA, Ericksen said, “I have 35 votes in the House, and it takes 50 to pass something. It’s going to take the people of Washington rising up.”
Ericksen also says the Democrats working on healthcare, including Representative Cody and Senator Karen Keiser, have focused on partisanship. He says they refused to set hearing dates for Republican healthcare reform proposals in the last legislative session. “I don’t believe solutions are partisan,” said Ericksen.
Representative Cody and Senator Keiser hosted a series of healthcare town halls this summer. Read about those here and here.
Ericksen and Cody were also panelists this summer at a Washington Policy Center healthcare conference. Read about that here.
Ericksen says, “Our goals are to lower costs, increase access and provide choices for health care, while fixing the state’s safety net for our most vulnerable citizens. We feel these goals could be met if we break from business as usual in Olympia. We simply cannot continue on the same path and expect different results.”
On October 5th, Ericksen and Representative Barbara Bailey will host another healthcare town hall in Burlington.
“We would like to share our health care solutions and listen to what people have to say,” said Bailey, assistant ranking Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee.
Here are the details for these two events:
September 29th
Bellevue High School Theatre
10416 Wolverine Way
Bellevue, WA 98004
6:00 – 8:00 pm
October 5th
Burlington-Edison High School
Performing Arts Center
301 North Burlington Blvd.
Burlington, WA 98233
6:00 – 8:00 pm
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