Healthcare
July 13, 2020
Some of the pharmaceutical companies developing Covid-19 vaccine candidates have pledged to not take a profit.
July 10, 2020
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Chair of the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee, led a July 7 oversight inquiry pressing the Trump Administration for answers regarding error-ridden data and gaping holes on nursing home safety—particularly regarding infection control. He was joined by over a dozen of his fellow Ways and Means Democrats.
July 9, 2020
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Chairman, released the following statement regarding the Biden-Sanders Health Task Force plan:
Issues:Healthcare
June 29, 2020
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Chair of the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee, released the following statement regarding Gilead’s announcement this morning that it will charge about $3,120 for a treatment course of remdesivir per patient with commercial insurance in the United States:
June 8, 2020
A nursing home deep on San Antonio’s South Side appears to have received $9.3 million in federal bailout funds meant to go to medical providers serving on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic. Hunters Pond Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center recently reported getting the funds from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economics Security Act and other federal programs.
June 8, 2020
The US government's current supply of remdesivir, the only drug known to work against Covid-19, will run out at the end of the month, Dr. Robert Kadlec, a US Department of Health and Human Services official, told CNN.
May 29, 2020
Two U.S. House of Representatives Democrats on Friday launched an inquiry into whether the Health and Human Services Department misdirected billions of dollars in coronavirus stimulus money to healthcare providers facing criminal or civil fraud investigations.
May 27, 2020
Data shows members of the Latinx and African-American communities have seen higher rates of COVID-19 infections, hospitalizations and deaths around the country.
Dr. Alicia Fernandez from Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital told lawmakers the Latinx community is disproportionately impacted in other ways.
May 22, 2020
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will begin distributing nearly $4.9 billion in relief funds to skilled nursing facilities to help them combat the “devastating effects of this pandemic.”
According to an announcement sent out on Friday, the funding will supplement previously announced provider relief funds and will be used to support nursing homes suffering from significant expenses or lost revenue attributable to COVID-19.
May 13, 2020
Washington, D.C. – As the pandemic broadens and the Trump Administration bungles, U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Chairman of the Health Subcommittee on Ways and Means, and U.S. Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), Chair of the Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Subcommittee, urge Secretary Azar to create a transparent process for distributing available doses of remdesivir and to swiftly release initial clinical trial findings. For physicians facing difficult prescribing decisions, this information is critical to ensure limited supplies go to the patients who will most benefit. This letter comes following the failure of Secretary Azar yet to respond to the lawmakers’ previous inquiry regarding taxpayer investments in remdesivir.