Representatives Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), Debbie Dingell (MI-12), and Keith Ellison (MN-5), Co-Chairs of the Medicare For All Congressional Caucus released the following statement in response to President Trump’s Op-Ed on Medicare For All:
“President Trump’s Op-Ed is littered with falsehoods and misleading statements. He lied to the American people countless times on… Read more »
Today, President Trump signed a bipartisan bill Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (MI-12) led through committee and the House that bans the practice of prohibiting pharmacists from telling patients when less-expensive options to pay for prescription drugs may be available.
“The cost of prescription drugs keeps going up while hard-working men and women are feeling the squeeze,”… Read more »
Today, Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (MI-12) sent a letter to Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) Cancer Center with questions about on the use and sharing of patient medical data with Paige.AI, a computational pathology and medical artificial intelligence start-up, which has exclusive rights to use MSK’s library of 25 million pathology slides.
Reporting from the New York Times and… Read more »
Today, Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (MI-12) released the following statement after the House of Representatives passed another tax cut for the wealthy that leaves behind working men and women in Michigan and across the country and could add $3 trillion more to the US Debt:
“Hard-working men and women deserve better than another tax plan that leaves them behind, increases the… Read more »
– Today, the House of Representatives passed a package of bipartisan bills to address the opioid epidemic, including bills introduced by U.S. Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (MI-12). Three the bipartisan bills, the Advancing Cutting-Edge (ACE) Research Act, Jessie’s Law, the Safe Disposal of Unused Medication Act, and the Opioid Screening and Chronic Pain… Read more »
Today, Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (MI-12) announced her interest in serving as a co-chair of the Democratic Policy and Communications Committee (DPCC) for the 116th Congress.
Dingell asked for her colleagues' support in a letter to her House Democratic colleagues. Dingell is a former member of the DNC and has spent much of her adult life working in the trenches of organizing and… Read more »
The House of Representatives passed bipartisan legislation including provisions by Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (MI-12) to strengthen and evaluate emergency preparedness procedures for hospitals and long-term care facilities. Dingell wrote the Worst-Case Scenario Hospital Preparedness Act in the aftermath of the 2017 hurricane season, which caused flooding and power outages at hospitals… Read more »
Today the House Energy and Commerce Committee approved a bill cosponsored by Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (MI-12) that bans the practice of prohibiting pharmacists from telling patients when less-expensive options to pay for prescription drugs may be available.
Currently, Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) are able to include requirements in contracts that prevent pharmacists from… Read more »
The House of Representatives passed two bipartisan bills by Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (MI-12) to improve Medicare so seniors have better access to the healthcare they need.
“Every American has a right to quality, affordable healthcare and for millions of seniors their care comes through Medicare,” said Dingell. “We have to always keep looking forward and finding… Read more »
Today the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Health Subcommittee approved Congresswoman Debbie Dingell’s (MI-12) and Congressman Brett Guthrie’s (KY-02) Ensuring Medicaid Provides Opportunities for Widespread Equity, Resources (EMPOWER) and Care Act (H.R. 5306), which will help certain Medicaid participants receive long-term care in their homes or communities if they… Read more »
