Healthcare

Washington, D.C. – House Budget Chairman Jodey Arrington (TX-19) introduced two pieces of legislation aimed at increasing the accessibility of affordable and effective health care in Rural America. “You won't have the next generation of ag and energy producers providing America with food security and energy independence without access to basic health care in rural communities,” said… Read more »

Washington, D.C. – House Budget Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-TX-19) re-introduced the Nancy Gardner Sewell Medicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Coverage Act (H.R.842), legislation to allow for multi-cancer early detection (MCED) tests to be covered by Medicare in a timely manner upon approval by the Food and Drug Administration. The legislation enjoys broad… Read more »

The Nancy Gardner Sewell Medicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Coverage Act was introduced again in the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday by Rep. Jodey Arrington, R-Texas, the House budget chairman. Read more »

 Representatives Arrington and Sewell, co-leads of the Nancy Gardner SewellMedicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection … Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, House Budget Chairman Jodey Arrington (TX-19) held a hearing titled “Breaking Up Health Care Monopolies: Examining the Budgetary Effects of Health Care Consolidation,” during which the Committee focused on the budgetary effects of increasing health care consolidation and explored policy solutions to enhance competition, reduce health care costs,… Read more »

Washington, D.C. – Today, the House Committee on Ways and Means passed Chairman Jodey Arrington’s (TX-19) Real-Time Benefit Tools Implementation Act (H.R. 7512), bipartisan legislation to require the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to provide Medicare beneficiaries and their health care providers with price transparency tools. … Read more »

Arrington Legislation to Ensure Access to Groundbreaking Cancer Detection Tools Gains Substantial Momentum in Congress Bipartisan Majority of the U.S. House Now Supports Passage of the Medicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Coverage Act Washington, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Jodey Arrington (TX-19) announced that the Medicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Coverage… Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Rep. Jodey C. Arrington (TX-19) issued the following statement after the Supreme Court blocked the OSHA vaccine mandate for businesses with over 100 employees but upheld the vaccine mandate for healthcare workers. “For months, I have vigorously opposed the Biden Administration’s overreaching vaccine mandates. While I applaud SCOTUS for… Read more »

WASHINGTON, DC— Today, Rep. Jodey C. Arrington (TX-19) led Rep. Kevin Brady (TX-8), Rep. Michael Burgess (TX-26), Rep. Dan Crenshaw (TX-2), Rep. Jake Ellzey (TX-6), Rep. Pat Fallon (TX-4), Rep. Louis Gohmert (TX-1), Rep. Ronny Jackson (TX-13), Rep. August Pfluger (TX-11), Rep. Chip Roy (TX-21), Rep. Pete Sessions (TX-17), Rep. Beth Van Duyne (TX-24), and Rep. Roger Williams (TX-25)… Read more »

Today, Rep. Jodey Arrington (TX-19) joined Rep. Scott DesJarlais and over 50 House Colleagues in a letter to HHS Secretary Becerra voicing grave concerns regarding the department’s recent changes to the distribution of monoclonal antibody (mAb) treatments.  “At a time when our hospitals and doctors need life-saving treatments as quickly as possible, the Biden… Read more »