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“The CDC is a critical national security asset,” said Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Mandy Cohen during her testimony on the federal response to the COVID-19 pandemi…

Health care executives testified on artificial intelligence (AI) before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health. They examined the practical uses of AI, as well as the ethical c…

Mary Denigan-Macauley, health care director at the Government Accountability Office (GAO), testified on a new report of how federal agencies are addressing antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Sh…

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chair Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), and other Democrats unveiled their investigative results into high pharmaceutical d…

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) held a news conference on a legislative proposal to address the cost of prescription drugs. Flanked by chairs of the relevant committees with jurisdiction o…

The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health held a hearing to examine high prescription drug prices. In the first panel, lawmakers heard from pharmaceutical companies Pfizer, Amgen …

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), along with House and Senate Democrats, held a news conference on health care and prescription drug legislat…

Current and former state and federal health care officials testified at a hearing on extending funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), which was set to expire at the end …

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Director John Howard testified at a hearing on the bill to reauthorize the World Trade Center Health Program and the September 11th Vict…

Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius testified on the implementation of the Healthcare.gov Web site. In her opening statement she said in she had launched an internal review of the fl…

Government contractors testified on their role in building the various components of Affordable Care Act’s online health insurance exchanges, and Healthcare.gov’s subsequent user technical d…

Federal officials testified on their efforts to help states with the process of setting up health care insurance exchanges mandated by the Affordable Care Act (the health care law). Health s…

Committee members considered a bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act, the health care law.

Witnesses testified on efforts to prevent and treat traumatic brain injuries. Among the topics they addressed were the numbers and prevalence of traumatic brain injury (TBI), inter-agency co…

The House passed the Senate version of health care legislation by a vote of 219 to 212. The House passed both the Senate health care legislation and the reconciliation bill. The reconciliati…

Governors testified about their experiences complying with the health care law’s mandates, particularly the burdens imposed by requirements to maintain Medicaid eligibility in return for fed…

The House Rules Committee met to set guidelines for the January 12, 2011, floor debate to repeal the health care law enacted in March 2010. The legislation under consideration was titled “R…

The heads of several Alzheimer’s associations and National Institute of Aging’s Neuroscience Division Director Marcelle Morrison-Bogorad testified about Alzheimer’s disease research and fund…

Glenn Hackbarth testified on the findings of a report submitted by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) to Congress on June 15, 2010. Testimony focused on the impact of new heal…

The House took up the Senate changes to the Health Care Reconciliation bill, and voted to approve the measure by 220 to 207.