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— MP Greg Murphy (RN.C.) About the healthcare cost crisis
— MP Debbie Dingell (Democrat, Michigan) On Economically Sustainable Care
— White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator Ashish Ja About mitigating the public health emergency
– Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra On the Biden administration’s track record and priorities
David Lim of POLITICO elaborated on important issues What’s facing the White House, Congress and regulators, and our reporters ask questions about:
— Ensuring solvency Repeal health insurance program rights for retired adults and at-risk families, even though many Democrats want health care to be free for all.
— make sure The current regulatory structure is tasked with reviewing and approving the increasingly complex gene and cell therapy products developed by the pharmaceutical industry.
— Restore lost trust Governments also play an important role when it comes to communicating and managing public health emergencies.
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Legislation to update PEPFARThe AIDS program created by former President George W. Bush has been called into question after a leading Republican congressman said it needed to include anti-abortion language.
The president’s emergency plan for AIDS relief has long enjoyed bipartisan support and is widely credited with halting the spread of HIV and AIDS. It is expected to be reapproved by Congress this year.
But a letter from a congressman to a colleague. Chris Smith As chairman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ subcommittee on global health, global human rights and international organizations, Mr. (RN.J.) is likely to create partisan rifts.
“A multi-year PEPFAR reauthorization bill should ensure that Biden’s takeover of PEPFAR to promote abortion is stopped,” Smith wrote. in the letter What Carmen got.
Citing a policy document from the Biden administration, Smith says he seeks to use PEPFAR to fund groups that support abortion rights or provide abortions. He said more than $100 million has been funded to organizations such as International, Village Reach, and Pathfinder International. Biden became president.
Anti-abortion groups sent letters to members of Congress. Michael McCall (Republican, Texas) Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Senator. Jim Rich (Republican, Idaho), Senior Member of the Committee on Foreign Relations, raise concerns About last month’s PEPFAR grant.
Why it matters: Sponsored by Smith Last Reauthorization Act In 2018, the bill would normally pass through his subcommittee.
Congress can keep PEPFAR as-is without passing new legislation, but the reauthorization process provides an opportunity to make policy changes or update the level of funding authorized.
what’s next? Smith’s stance could dampen Democratic enthusiasm for PEPFAR reauthorization this year.
This will disappoint HIV/AIDS activists and public health officials. They argue that the bipartisan reauthorization of the program would signal renewed US determination to fight the disease, which became more widespread during the COVID-19 pandemic.
More doctors offering telemedicine Many of them do not trust virtual care.
Just over half of clinicians believe they can accurately diagnose patients using telemedicine and remote patient monitoring, according to new survey of 2,000 clinicians worldwide by health tech company GE Healthcare .
Overall, two-thirds of health care providers are not confident that their patients will be able to perform the necessary unsupervised home testing in a manner that would reassure their doctors.
Cultural Rift: In the eight countries surveyed by GE Healthcare, the sentiment varied significantly.
The United States, along with the United Kingdom, had the second highest distrust of unsupervised out-of-hospital testing at 79%, only lower than South Korea’s 82%.
Germany had the lowest distrust of such testing at 48%, followed by Brazil at 55%, India at 60%, China at 62% and New Zealand at 63%.
The difference may be in telemedicine adoption rates, the company said. In Germany, where confidence in self-testing was relatively high, nearly three-quarters of healthcare providers frequently see patients virtually.
In South Korea, on the other hand, less than 1 in 5 providers frequently use telemedicine, and patients have about the same confidence in being able to self-examine without supervision.
