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June 17, 2021
Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Chair of the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee, led over 40 Democratic House Members from States which have refused to expand Medicaid coverage in introducing the Cover Outstanding Vulnerable Expansion-Eligible Residents Now (COVER Now) Act. This landmark legislation authorizes the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to work directly with counties, cities, and other political subdivisions to expand Medicaid coverage. It would, for the first time, allow local leaders to help their vulnerable residents in States which have declined to accept federal resources for Medicaid expansion. Standing together in front of the U.S. Capitol, cosponsors held a press conference this morning.
Issues:Healthcare
June 17, 2021
Obamacare lives to fight another day. That’s thanks to the Supreme Court’s ruling Thursday that quashes the latest (and hopefully last) effort to kill the Affordable Care Act. Tens of millions of Americans helped by this law — the poor, people with preexisting conditions, those without employer-sponsored insurance — can breathe a sigh of relief.
Issues:Healthcare
June 17, 2021
Democrats, now in charge for the first time since Obamacare passed, have been mulling over how to get health insurance to about 4.3 million Americans stuck in the so-called “Medicaid coverage gap.”
Issues:Healthcare
June 17, 2021
Congressional Democrats have finally found a way to expand Medicaid in the dozen states that haven’t yet done so. They will go around conservative state government leaders who have rejected the prospect for a decade and instead work with local leaders.
Issues:Healthcare
June 16, 2021
A bipartisan pair of House lawmakers is backing an update to the nation’s system for compensating people injured by vaccines, with an eye on making it easier for those experiencing rare but serious side effects from Covid-19 shots to eventually seek payment for their claims.
June 10, 2021
Washington, D.C.—Today, U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Chair of the House Ways & Means Health Subcommittee, U.S. Representative Fred Upton (R-MI), former Chair of the House Energy & Commerce Committee, and U.S. Representative Mike Kelly (R-PA), Ranking Member of the House Ways & Means Oversight Subcommittee, announced the introduction of important legislation to provide much-needed updates and improvements to the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP). Established in 1986, the VICP provides a no-fault alternative to the traditional legal system through which consumers can be compensated for very rare vaccine-related injuries. The VICP provides necessary protections and certainty for patients, vaccine administrators, and vaccine manufacturers alike, but has not been significantly updated since first established.
May 5, 2021
In a significant move to combat the Covid-19 pandemic, the U.S. government agreed to support a controversial proposal to temporarily waive intellectual property rights for vaccines in a bid to increase global supplies of desperately needed doses.
May 5, 2021
The Biden administration supports temporarily lifting intellectual property protections for coronavirus vaccines and will move forward with international discussions to waive them, its top trade negotiator said on Wednesday.
May 4, 2021
Kavita Tewari says she is haunted each day by the howl of ambulance sirens ringing through the streets near her home in New Delhi, India. For her and countless others in the South Asian country, the recent spike in coronavirus cases and deaths has been a crisis like nothing else she has experienced before.
May 4, 2021
The White House is changing how it distributes vaccines to states. President Biden set a goal of getting 70 percent of the population at least partially vaccinated by July 4, and Pfizer projects tens of billions of dollars in revenue from its coronavirus shot.