January 10, 2024 – Congress has begun its second session of the 118e Congress and the Prime Minister despatched a letter calling on lawmakers to take motion to guard People' entry to high-quality and cost-effective care by addressing pressing legislative priorities in well being care. Priorities embody stopping looming cuts to Medicaid, offering funding to group well being facilities, reauthorizing the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act, and extra, together with:
- Stopping looming cuts to Medicaid's disproportionate hospital funds, which might worsen the extraordinary monetary pressures hospitals face and threaten entry for our most susceptible populations;
- Offering continued funding for group well being facilities and different expiring public well being and workforce coaching packages;
- Reinstating incentives underneath Medicare to help the transfer towards various cost fashions that present high-quality look after beneficiaries;
- Continued coverage to stop suppliers from being disenrolled from the 340B drug low cost program;
- Limiting Medicare cost cuts for physicians and different key suppliers; And
- Reauthorize the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act (PAHPA).
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