During that 4 years, while EPA was reviewing what we do to improve our air quality, more than 4,000 adults had their lives cut short by poor air quality just in our region.
Obviously, we want to do everything we can to fix this before we become where we are on track to be, which is the first time in U.S. history...
I grew up with childhood asthma in my area.
if we actually make reimbursement rates higher in medically underserved areas, if we make NIH research go more toward medically underserved ...
if we wanted to address these workforce shortages, this is not going to be fixed by changes with HRSA.
This Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program is going to help address that, keep our doctors where they need to be.
Politics intervened, and that plan ended up getting rejected just last year, October 22nd.
This means that they received an F grade for both ozone and particulate pollution in a 24-hour period.
Thank you so much, Chair DeLauro, for hosting this hearing.
I just really want to emphasize to you and to your team that the proposed fix does not fix this issue.
At the height of COVID, the ICUs in my community were over 100 percent capacity, not because we didn't have the bed space, but because we di...