Capio, the nation's leading purchaser of non-performing healthcare accounts, welcomes the introduction of The Reporting Medical Debt Payments as Positive Consumer Credit Information Act of 2024. This bipartisan bill to require credit reporting agencies to consider positive payments in credit scores, enabling consumers who are making payments to boost their credit… Read more »
Terri Smith joined the Army when she was 20 with high hopes of having a career. But her hopes were dashed within a short time, replaced by a nightmare of unbelievable proportions. Like many young people, she joined for the educational benefits, along with the desire to serve her country. https://www.hernandosun.com/2024/04/27/an-account-of-military-sexual-trauma/ Read more »
Recent findings reveal a concerning dependency on foreign sources for key pharmaceutical ingredients critical to the United States' healthcare system, with a significant focus on China. This dependency places over a quarter of US-designated essential medicines at a 'very high risk,' sparking bipartisan efforts to address the nation's pharmaceutical supply chain… Read more »
Republican Rep. Don Bacon, who is also running in a swing district in Nebraska, said, “I want to give those who want to be moms and dads that opportunity. Therefore, I will not support restrictions to IVF.”https://krdo.com/news/2024/02/23/republicans-struggle-to-respond-to-alabama-embryo-ruling-2/ Read more »
Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) told Axios that he also does “not support restrictions on IVF” because he wants to “give those who want to be moms and dads that opportunity.”https://freeread.causeaction.com/2024/02/23/gop-lawmaker-moves-to-protect-ivf-after-alabama-supreme-court-declares-embryos-are-children/ Read more »
The Healthcare Workforce Coalition, whose founding members include the AHA, Nov. 3 applauded Sens. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., and Reps. Brad Schneider, D-Ill., and Don Bacon, R-Neb., for reintroducing the Healthcare Workforce Resilience Act, legislation that would recapture up to 40,000 unused employment visas — 25,000 for nurses and 15,000 for physicians. It… Read more »
U.S. Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) recently sponsored a bipartisan bill that seeks to improve and expand maternal postpartum health under the Medicaid program.
“As a husband, father, and grandfather, I recognize the importance of supporting postpartum women,” Rep. Bacon said on April 26. “Our care for women should extend to postpartum recovery, to ensure that they are living without pain or… Read more »
Rep. Bacon Leads Bipartisan Bill to Help Postpartum Women
WASHINGTON, DC— Congressman Don Bacon (R-NE-02), alongside Reps. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE-At Large), Terri Sewell (D-AL-070), Susan Wild (D-PA-07), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA-01), and Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González-Colón (R-Puerto Rico), reintroduced H.R.2480, the Optimizing Postpartum… Read more »
OMAHA, Neb. — Methadone, a medication used to treat opioid use disorder cannot be prescribed and picked up at a pharmacy. Patients have to go to an opioid treatment program to get access to it. But new legislation proposed by Congressman Don Bacon aims to change that.
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Today, President Joe Biden signed into law a measure authored by Congressman Salud Carbajal (CA-24) to improve disability and retirement benefits for federal firefighters by ensuring they receive the same access to job-related disability and retirement benefits as state, county, and municipal firefighters.
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The Federal Firefighters Fairness Act of 2021 was introduced by… Read more »
