{"id":4073,"date":"2011-07-29T11:57:16","date_gmt":"2011-07-29T15:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=4073"},"modified":"2011-07-29T11:57:16","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T15:57:16","slug":"pitts-childrens-hospital-legislation-passes-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=4073","title":{"rendered":"Pitts&#8217; childrens hospital legislation passes committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4074\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Pitts_AnnaLipsman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4074\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4074 \" style=\"border: 2px solid navy; margin: 4px;\" title=\"Pitts_AnnaLipsman\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Pitts_AnnaLipsman-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4074\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Joe Pitts (R-16) with Anna Lipsman (far left), her sister Leah, and mother Elaine.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The House Energy and Commerce Committee approved Rep. Joe Pitts\u2019 (R-PA) bill, H.R. 1852 Thursday, reauthorizing the Children\u2019s Hospitals Graduate Medical Education (CHGME) Payment Program. This program helps train doctors in pediatrics and in pediatric subspecialties.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Pitts\u2019 statement follows:<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter receiving the unanimous approval of the Health Subcommittee earlier this week, the full Energy and Commerce Committee approved my bill to help train pediatricians. This important program needs to be reauthorized before September 30 of this year. With 40 percent of all pediatricians being trained through this program, without my legislation we risk a shortage of doctors trained to treat children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis week, I had a strong reminder of why my bill is so important. Anna Lipsman, a ten-year old from West Chester, Pa. visited my office to tell me about the treatment she is receiving at the Children\u2019s Hospital of Philadelphia. She was diagnosed with leukemia, and with the assistance of the pediatricians she is successfully fighting this disease.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, President Obama eliminated the funding for this program in his fiscal year 2012 budget. Frankly, the funding for this program was not there because of the billions of dollars in new health programs created by last year\u2019s new health care law. A proven program that is doing good things was cast aside in favor of wasteful and duplicative spending.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy bill has strong bipartisan support, and I believe that we have the resources to make sure that CHGME keeps training doctors to treat young and vulnerable patients.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The House Energy and Commerce Committee approved Rep. Joe Pitts\u2019 (R-PA) bill, H.R. 1852 Thursday, reauthorizing the Children\u2019s Hospitals Graduate Medical Education (CHGME) Payment Program. This program helps train doctors in pediatrics and in pediatric subspecialties. Rep. Pitts\u2019 statement follows: &nbsp;&nbsp; Send article as PDF &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[320,449,107],"class_list":["post-4073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-congress","tag-health-care","tag-pitts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}