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The bill passed by one vote, 216–215. On June 26, the Senate passed its version of the bill, 76–21. The bills were unified in conference, and on November 21, the bill came back to the House for approval. The bill came to a vote at 3 a.m. on November 22. After 45 minutes, the bill was losing, 219–215, with David Wu (D-OR-1) not
The bill was introduced on October 29, 2009 and passed on November 7, during the 1st Session of the 111th Congress. Its primary sponsor was the Dean of the House, John Dingell of Michigan. The bill is a revised version of an earlier measure, the proposed America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 (HR 3200 [18] [19]).
[391] [392] Various bills were introduced in Congress to allow people to keep their plans. [ 393 ] PolitiFact initially cited various estimates that only about 2% of the total insured population (4 million out of 262 million) received such notices, [ 394 ] but readers later voted Obama's claims as the 2013 "Lie of the Year".
As a result of this intense opposition, the Patients' Bill of Rights initiative eventually failed to pass Congress in 2002. As president, Bush signed into law the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act which included a prescription drug plan for elderly and disabled Americans. [59]
U.S. Rep. Zach Nunn speaks at a news conference announcing legislation to expand access to opioid overdose reversal medications, like naloxone, at Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines on ...
The Durham–Humphrey Amendment explicitly defined two specific categories for medications, legend (prescription) and over-the-counter (OTC). This amendment was co-sponsored by then Senator (and later Vice President) Hubert H. Humphrey Jr., who was a pharmacist in South Dakota before beginning his political career. [1]
“You got all these people with this disease who need treatment,” he said. “There’s a medication that could really help us tackle this problem, help us dramatically reduce overdose death, and people are having a hard time accessing it.” The anti-medication approach adopted by the U.S. sets it apart from the rest of the developed world.
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