Health Care
WASHINGTON, DC—Today, Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-02), a senior member of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, and Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) a senior member of the Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Committee, re-introduced bipartisan, bicameral legislation to curb the rising rates of workplace violence facing health care and social service workers, including nurses, emergency responders, medical assistants, physicians, and social workers.
Here's what workers, advocates, and stakeholders are saying about the legislation:
NORWICH, CT – Today, Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-02) issued the following statement in response to Texas U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s recent ruling to suspend longstanding FDA approval of mifepristone.
WASHINGTON, DC — Yesterday evening, U.S. Representatives Joe Courtney (D-CT) and Tim Walberg (R-MI), and U.S. Senators Susan Collins (R-ME) and Sherrod Brown (D-OH), introduced the Improving Access to Workers’ Compensation for Injured Federal Workers Act (H.R. 618). The bipartisan bill would amend the Federal Employees Compensation Act (FECA) to allow injured workers to receive treatment for work-related injuries from state-licensed physician associates/physician assistants (PAs) and nurse practitioners (NPs).
NORWICH, CT — Today, Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-02) announced that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will officially lower costs for Medicare Part B beneficiaries in 2023.
The Inflation Reduction Act includes provisions that will lower kitchen table costs for families, advance clean energy production and manufacturing in the U.S., and help create millions of good-paying jobs while lowering carbon emissions. Below is an overview of some of the key provisions included in the bill.