Throughout the 118th Congress, House Republicans have led major legislative initiatives to improve the health, safety, and welfare of Americans while preserving our freedoms. No matter what the president says in tonight's State of the Union address, Americans need to know the truth.
Reducing healthcare costs for Americans
Chairman Rogers touted the passage of the Cost Cutting and Improving Transparency Act at a press conference.
House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.), Ranking Member Frank Pallone Jr. (D-N.J.), and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-Missouri). state), led by the House of Representatives on Education and Workforce. Commissioner Virginia Foxx (R-NC), HR 5378, the Lower Costs, Greater Transparency Act, would reduce health care costs by increasing transparency in health care markets. The bill passed the House on a bipartisan vote of 320-71.
How the Cost Reduction and Transparency Act will help patients:
Improving price transparency across the patient healthcare system
- We empower patients and employers to purchase health care and make informed health care decisions by providing timely and accurate information about the cost of care, treatment, and services.
- Open healthcare pricing information by ensuring that hospitals, insurance companies, laboratories, imaging providers, and ambulatory surgery centers publish the prices they charge patients.
- Reduce costs for patients and employers by requiring health insurance companies and pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) to disclose negotiated drug rebates and discounts, revealing the true cost of prescription drugs.
Coping with prescription drug costs
- Reduces out-of-pocket costs for seniors who receive medications at hospital-owned outpatient facilities.
- Expanding access to more affordable generic medicines
- Provide employer health plans with the drug pricing information they need to get the best possible deal for their employees
Supporting patients, healthcare workers, community health centers, and hospitals
- Fully pay for overdue programs that strengthen our health system by:
- Support critical community health centers for patients in rural and underserved areas
- Supporting local new doctor training programs
- Retaining Medicaid for hospitals that treat uninsured and low-income patients
- Expanding funding for research to find better treatments and cures for diabetes, which affects more than 37 million Americans
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The House passed the long-needed health care price transparency bill.
Americans overwhelmingly support greater transparency in health care
Fight to end the fentanyl crisis and support those suffering from substance use disorder
Michael Straley testifies about his late daughter's struggle with drug use
Disruption at an outdoor hearing in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
The Support for Patients and Communities Reauthorization (SUPPORT) Act of 2023, led by Health Subcommittee Chairman Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.) and Rep. Anne Kuster (D-N.H.), will address drug use and opioid It continues to provide use disorder treatment and recovery services to millions of people. Percentage of Americans seeking help to overcome substance use disorder, including access to workforce training and long-term recovery services. It passed the House on a bipartisan vote of 386-37.
How the SUPPORT Act helps patients:
- Permanently places xylazine on Schedule III of the Controlled Substances Act while maintaining access for veterinarians and ranchers to use it on animals.
- Continue to provide training and education resources related to fentanyl and other illicit substances, especially to first responders in rural areas.
- Renewing supports for individuals in substance use disorder (SUD) treatment and recovery to live independently and participate in the workforce.
- Protect mothers and babies by reauthorizing resources for residential SUD treatment for pregnant and postpartum women.
- Permanently lifts the Medicaid IMD exclusion that limits access to rehabilitation and institutional care services.
- Allows Medicaid recipients to receive medication-assisted treatment.
- Fully compliant with the House Republican Fiscal Responsibility Framework, spending would be offset by cuts in other areas.
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District Update: Construction Republicans support solutions that lower health care costs and improve people's lives
Health Subcommittee Chairman Guthrie: Assistance Act is an Important Step in Addressing the Overdose Epidemic
Summary: Health Subcommittee Field Hearing in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Deb and Ray Cullen share the tragic story of their late son Zachary
He was poisoned with fentanyl during a roundtable discussion.
The HALT Fentanyl Act, sponsored by Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-VA) and Rep. Bob Latta (R-OH), would make class-wide temporary scheduling orders for fentanyl-related substances permanent; It would give law enforcement the tools they need to detain American citizens. safety. It passed the House on a bipartisan vote of 289-133.
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Construction and Industry Republicans host roundtable on fentanyl crisis and southern border
Construction and Industry Republicans hold roundtable on the dangers of Big Tech and the fentanyl addiction crisis
News: Republicans host roundtable to discuss impact of open borders on fentanyl crisis
Construction Republicans lead passage of bipartisan HALT fentanyl bill
Protecting Americans with Disabilities and Chronic Illness from Discrimination
House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.), House Ways and Means Committee Chair Jason Smith (R-Missouri), and Republican Physicians Co-Chairman Democratic Chancellor Brad Wenstrup. (Republican, Ohio). Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX), HR 485, Health Care Protection for All Act. It would expand access to life-saving treatment and prevent discrimination against Americans with disabilities.
How the Healthcare Protection for All Act will help Americans:
- Prohibits the use of quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) and other similar discriminatory measures in all federal programs. This is an expansion of the current prohibition that applies only narrowly to the Medicare program.
- QALY devalues the lives of people with disabilities and chronic conditions to determine whether a treatment is cost-effective enough to be paid for by the federal government. The use of QALYs is clearly discriminatory.
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ADA Author: Congress must act to ban practices that disrespect the lives of people with disabilities.
Restoring freedoms and ending obligations from government’s coronavirus excesses
The bill, sponsored by Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-S.C.), would lift the Biden administration's COVID-19 vaccination requirement for federal health care workers. It passed the House on a bipartisan vote of 227-203.
HR 185, sponsored by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), would eliminate the requirement imposed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director on international travelers to provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination. It passed the House on a bipartisan vote of 227-201.
The bill, led by Health Subcommittee Chairman Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.), would force the Biden administration to end the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE). Shortly after announcing the House vote, President Biden announced his plan to finally end the public health emergency. The bill passed the House by a vote of 220-210.
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Chairman Rogers’ Statement on the Extension of the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Public Health Emergency