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Capps Highlights Health Reform Benefits for Communities on the Central Coast

The Affordable Care Act is working to transform our health care system from one that focuses on treating illness to one that focuses on health, wellness, and prevention.

What is benefiting 470,000+ Central Coast residents?

Capps Highlights Health Reform Benefits for Small Businesses on the Central Coast

As a result of the Affordable Care Act, 550 local small businesses have received tax credits to help maintain or expand health care coverage for their employees.

Capps Highlights Health Reform Benefits for Young People on the Central Coast

Nearly 10,000 young adults on the Central Coast now have health insurance, thanks to a provision in the law that requires insurance companies to allow young people to remain on their parents’ plan until they reach age 26.

Capps Highlights Health Reform Benefits for Central Coast Women

"Health Care Reform marks a tremendous victory for women’s health and equality, and ensures that women will have access to the health care they need, when they need it."

Capps Highlights Health Reform Benefits for Central Coast Medicare Beneficiaries

6,200 local seniors have received discounts on brand-name prescription drugs for a total savings of $3.8 million, and 59,000 local seniors received preventive care without a co-pays or additional out-of-pocket costs.

Capps Announces Over $5 Million in Federal Funding for Head Start in Santa Barbara County

The Head Start program in Santa Barbara County serves over 1,300 families at 36 sites; it focuses on helping preschoolers develop early reading and math skills and promotes school readiness.

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Capps Statement on Senate Defeat of Dangerous Blunt Amendment

"I’m pleased the Senate rejected this outrageous effort to dismantle health care coverage for all Americans.”