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Legislation
02/08/07 - H.R. 945, Tanning Accountability and Notification (TAN) Act of 2007
02/16/06 - H.R.4767, Tanning Accountability and Notification (TAN) Act of 2006
06/16/05 - H.R.2946, Osteoporosis Early Detection and Prevention Act of 2005
06/08/05 - H.R.2812, Cancer Screening Coverage Act of 2005
02/17/05 - H.R.949, Women's Health Office Act of 2005
05/12/04 - H.R.4354, Women's Health Office Act of 2004 [108th Congress]
04/01/04 - H.R.4154, Osteoporosis Early Detection and Prevention Act of 2004 [108th Congress]
10/21/03 - H.R.3362, Cancer Screening Coverage Act of 2003 [108th Congress]
03/20/02 - H.R.4011, Science of Stem Cell Research Act [107th Congress]
10/02/01 - H.R.2992, Mental Health Parity Enhancement Act of 2001 [107th Congress]
08/02/01 - H.R.2783, Women's Health Drug Studies Act [107th Congress]
05/23/01 - H.R.1968, National Health Service Corps Reinvestment Act of 2001 [107th Congress]
05/10/01 - H.R.1809, Cancer Screening Coverage Act of 2001 [107th Congress]
05/02/01 - H.R.1683, Osteoporosis Early Detection and Prevention Act of 2001 [107th Congress]
09/06/00 - H.R.5116, National Health Service Corps Reauthorization Act of 2000 [106th Congress]
10/26/99 - H.R.3150, Legislation to gain more information on full impact of welfare reform [106th Congress]
07/02/99 - H.R.2445, Mental Health Parity Act of 1999 [106th Congress]
03/25/99 - H.R.1285, Cancer Screening Coverage Act of 1999 [106th Congress]
03/02/99 - H.R.925, Osteoporosis Early Detection and Prevention Act of 1999 [106th Congress]
07/24/98 - Annual Mammogram and Prostate Cancer Screening Coverage Act of 1998 [105th Congress]
10/22/97 - H.R. 2693, Osteoporosis Early Detection and Prevention Act of 1997 [105th Congress]
01/09/97 - H.R.418, Breast Cancer Early Detection Act of 1997 [105th Congress]
07/11/96 - H.R.3796, Women's Health and Dioxin Act of 1996 [104th Congress]
08/04/95 - H.R.2226, Medicaid Fair Funding Act of 1995 [104th Congress]
11/02/99 - H.R.3659, Medicaid Funding Act of 1993 [103rd Congress]
Documents
06/22/10 - New Patient's Bill of Rights Fact Sheet
05/17/06 - Letter Requesting a Hearing on H.R. 4767 in the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health
05/17/06 - Letter Requesting a Hearing on H.R. 4767 in the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health
Links
Center On Budget and Policy Priorities
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
National Committee To Preserve Social Security and Medicare Mission Statement
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
More on Health
WASHINGTON, DC — Today Reps. Henry A. Waxman, Diana DeGette, Frank Pallone, Jr., Rosa L. DeLauro, and Carolyn B. Maloney released a report prepared by the minority staff of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, describing the false and misleading health information provided to teens by the indoor tanning industry. The report, based on undercover interviews of tanning salon employees conducted by Committee investigators, finds that tanning salons target teenage girls with advertising and promotions, deny known risks of indoor tanning, provide false information on benefits of tanning, and fail to follow recommendations by the Food and Drug Administration on tanning frequency.
New York, NY - U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-Manhattan, Queens), former Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman, and New York State Assembly Member Brian Kavanagh (D-Manhattan) today urged the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to take action following a recent report in the American Journal of Public Health (attached) showing that women have a 47% greater chance of suffering severe injuries in car crashes than do men - even when wearing seat belts.
Today, U.S. Senators Charles E. Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand and U.S. Representatives Carolyn Maloney, Joe Crowley, Peter King, Charles Rangel, and Steve Israel announced that they have successfully secured a Medicare payment improvement resulting in Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) receiving $28 million more each year from the federal government to provide state-of-the-art cancer care to New Yorkers. MSKCC is the world’s oldest and largest private cancer center, and one of the leading cancer centers in the United States. Due to technological and scientific advancements, which many MSKCC clinicians and researchers have played an important role, more and more cancer patients are receiving care in an outpatient setting instead of inpatient hospital stays. But payment from the federal government for this type of care has been woefully inadequate and out-of-date, creating a funding challenge for hospitals like MSKCC to advance high quality cancer care to patients.
New York, NY – U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) today noted the first anniversary of the Affordable Care Act, the package of health care reforms signed by President Obama, applauding the law’s wide impact in just its first year of enactment.