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 »
Victims of military sexual assault could be eligible for tens of thousands of dollars in retroactive disability benefits under a proposal being unveiled by pair of House lawmakers this week.
The measure is unlikely to become law this year, given the short legislative schedule left before the end of December.
But bill sponsors say they hope to either find… Read more »
Despite President Biden's assertion that the COVID-19 pandemic is "over," unvaccinated Air Force pilots seeking religious accommodations to the vaccine mandate are still being prohibited from flying, despite those with medical exemptions being able to perform their usual duties.
Biden said during an interview with CBS' "60 Minutes" Sunday: "The pandemic is over. We still have a… Read more »
