The Republican strategy to strengthen Medicaid is to remove or exclude certain people from the program and then apply those resources to another person and this is a meaningless ap...
Republican policies to cap or turn the program into a block grant would result in the rug being pulled out from under millions of children, ...
It is undeniable that Medicaid coverage pays us back as a society tenfold and that is why improving and strengthening Medicaid for generatio...
We should instead be using this time to build the law's successes by improving quality affordable care now available to our constituents.
Sickle cell disease and diabetes disproportionately affect African American citizens, including many in my congressional district in North C...
That black children, African American children, have higher rates of disease.
I too want to thank you, Chairman Pitts, for holding this important hearing on reauthorizing important programs to combat the sickle cell di...
A study in the New England Journal of Medicine found that the median age for men with SCD is only 42 years old. For women, it is 48 years.
This is a subject that we all care so deeply about and I know our five witnesses today feel very strongly about this issue.
I think that would help, you know, especially as we are reviewing on our side, we know how the money is being spent and why.
As one trauma surgeon said to me, it's not a life saved; it's a lifetime saved.