House Will Take Up Eshoo’s Revised ARPA-H Bill The Week Of June 20

The House the week of June 20 will consider legislation that aims to establish the Biden administration’s biomedical research agency, the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), as an independent agency within HHS, require the agency to coordinate with FDA and CMS on product approvals and coverage decisions, and authorize $5 million in appropriations funding for the new agency. The bill will be considered under an expedited procedure, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) said in a Friday (June...
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Texas Dems Urge Becerra To Headquarter ARPA-H In Lone Star State

A group of Texas Democrats have joined their Republican colleagues in calling for HHS to make the Lone Star state the home base for the Biden administration’s new biomedical research agency, the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H). Texas is home to multiple world-class medical facilities, including the largest medical center in the world, the largest military medical complex in the nation, and the only Biosafety Level 4 lab co-located with a national primate center, 12 House Democrats from...
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Manchin Again Says Drug Pricing Could Go Alone, No Talk On ARP Credits

West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin on Monday (June 6) reiterated that if the Senate is unable agree on climate and energy policies to include in a reconciliation package, lawmakers should simply move forward with drug pricing reforms, and he remained non-committal on whether Congress should also extend the enhanced Affordable Care Act tax credits. Insurers, regulators and other health care stakeholders, and lawmakers have been pressing Democratic leadership to ensure the subsides are in any reconciliation package, and have...
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