Patty Murray

I believe in general that our Country needs to take women's health more seriously.

Last Congress, I fought very hard to pass my Prevent Pandemics Act to make sure that we would not be caught so unprepared for whatever the next pandemic hits.

I know you all have lived through the challenge of navigating our health care system.

What do you want to see done at the Federal level to expand access to quality care for long COVID patients?

Last Congress, I fought very hard to pass my Prevent Pandemics Act to make sure that we would not be caught so unprepared for whatever the next pandemic hits.

I believe in general that our Country needs to take women's health more seriously.

I have really been pressing for more NIH funding to help us better understand and treat long COVID.

Lot of patients with COVID, long COVID in my State of Washington have told me that they have really limited access to quality treatment and rehab services.

That needs to be disseminated widely. I think there is also a role to play through HHS, and guidance to state Medicaid agencies to really hold contracted managed care plans accountable to identifying and treating long COVID adequately.

I believe in general that our Country needs to take women's health more seriously.

Last Congress, I fought very hard to pass my Prevent Pandemics Act to make sure that we would not be caught so unprepared for whatever the next pandemic hits.

I have really been pressing for more NIH funding to help us better understand and treat long COVID.

Thank you for the opportunity to submit written testimony on our funding priorities and recommendations for the FY 2023 appropriations process for the Department of Health and Human Services.

Support the President's FY 2023 Budget Request for Tribal Health Programs and Mandatory Funding for the Indian Health Service (IHS).

We urge this subcommittee to take necessary action to move the program forward in this year's bill by appropriating the full $400 million requested by the Biden administration.

The AIDS death rate has dropped 80 percent from its peak in 1995.

The first preventive vaccine and experimental treatments were recently deployed in Africa against the Ebola virus.

Continuing to provide robust, sustained and predictable funding for the NIH is the only way we will seize the unparalleled scientific opportunities.

Routine childhood vaccinations prevent millions of cases of illness.

Thanks to a renewed commitment to NIH, researchers were able to pivot when SARS-CoV-2 emerged.

Please maintain this commitment and further enhance support for medical research and public health programs as you work with your colleagues on appropriations for Fiscal Year (FY) 2023.

Thank you for your strong, continued support of NIH, NIBIB, and all the Institutes and Centers working to advance our biomedical research efforts and to improve the lives of patients worldwide.

Expanding funding for research and treatment of amyloidosis is key to preventing death from amyloidosis.

Now is the time to vaccinate the economy and bolster our ability to respond to the emerging public health threats of tomorrow by continuing to invest heavily in biomedical research with transformative potential.

Support the President's FY 2023 Budget Request for Tribal Health Programs and Mandatory Funding for the Indian Health Service (IHS).