Healthcare

(Washington, D.C.) – Congressman Larry Bucshon, M.D. (IN-08) released the following statement in support of the National Institute of Health delivering new COVID-19 testing technologies to meet U.S. demand: “I applaud the National Institute of Health’s (NIH) commitment to delivering new COVID-19 testing technologies to meet U.S. testing demands. Our health care workers must be… Read more »

For updates on the Coronavirus, please continue to check back here or visit the Centers for Disease Control    COVID-19 Assistance Toolkit These unprecedented times call for a unified front by the federal government to help Hoosiers struggling through no fault of their own. Congress has provided three phases of relief packages that put Americans first with aid for families,… Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Reps. Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Larry Bucshon, M.D. (R-IN) introduced two pieces of bipartisan legislation today to increase diagnostic testing capabilities at public health laboratories and expand testing access to hospitals, physicians and other health service providers, especially in rural and underserved areas. The move comes as the nation works to rapidly… Read more »

Washington, D.C. (WEHT) – Congressman Larry Bucshon, M.D. released the following statement Monday announcing additional funding for 28 health centers in the amount of $10,980,583 by the Health Resources and Services Administration to expand capacity for coronavirus testing, purchase additional personal protective equipment (PPE) and train new medical and support staff across the… Read more »

U.S. Rep. Larry Bucshon, R-8th, whose original profession was in health care, said he has never seen any virus affect the country like the novel coronavirus pandemic. “This has been unprecedented,” he said. “Even if you look back through the end of February, first of March, people across the country, both politically and otherwise, still didn’t feel like it was gonna turn into the… Read more »

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(Washington, D.C.) – Congressman Larry Bucshon, M.D. (IN-08) released the following statement after voting in support of the Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act (H.R. 6074), a $7.8 billion emergency supplemental appropriation plus an additional $500 million for telehealth services: “I am encouraged… Read more »

With the CDC saying Tuesday that it’s not if but when COVID-19 becomes more widespread in the U.S., now is not the time to cut the budgets of programs and agencies in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). That message was repeated throughout a hearing Wednesday, Feb. 26, in which the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health quizzed HHS Secretary Alex Azar on both the… Read more »

Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar corrected the record when a lawmaker misrepresented what President Donald Trump has said about the coronavirus at a House hearing on Wednesday. “All of you know the World Health Organization has declared the coronavirus outbreak a global health emergency and our administration now has declared it a public health emergency,” Congresswoman… Read more »