Expanding Access to Healthcare
Arizona families deserve a health care system that works for everyone--regardless of one’s income or zip code.
That starts with reducing prescription drug costs for seniors, capping insulin at just $35 a month, cracking down on fraud and waste in Medicare’s hospice networks, expanding access to quality healthcare services in the Valley, and protecting insurance coverage for pre-existing conditions.
I’m advocating for the health and wellbeing of all Arizonans in Washington--whether it’s legislation to improve health outcomes for Native Americans and fund Valley Fever vaccine research. That includes restoring a woman’s right to safe, comprehensive reproductive care and protecting access to contraceptives and IVF.
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Danielle Stephens ran her fingers down a long list of her relatives' names and sighed.
All of them had been diagnosed with cancer. Most of them had died, many before they were 55.
As the U.S. House prepares to consider the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act, current and former residents of Mohave County, Arizona are asking Congress to adopt a measure that would bring justice to victims of radiation exposure. Earlier this week, Reps. Greg Stanton and Paul Gosar introduced a bipartisan amendment to the NDAA to support Downwinders in Mohave County and Clark County, Nevada-a continuation of their work together on the issue.
Reps. Greg Stanton and Paul Gosar introduced a bipartisan amendment to the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act to include justice for victims of radiation exposure in Mohave County, Arizona and Clark County, Nevada-a continuation of their work together on the issue.
The area included in the amendment is home to many "Downwinders," individuals who lived downwind of nuclear test sites or reactors and were exposed to the fallout of U.S. government nuclear tests from 1945 to 1962. COVID-19 has made the need to bring justice to Downwinders more urgent.
Today, New Democrat Coalition (NDC) Chair Derek Kilmer (WA-06) and NDC Health Care Task Force Co-Chairs Greg Stanton (AZ-09), Angie Craig (MN-02), Kurt Schrader (OR-05), and Kim Schrier, M.D. (WA-08) released the following statements on House passage of H.R. 1425, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Enhancement Act.
Three Democratic members of Arizona's congressional delegation are condemning the latest effort to overturn the Affordable Care Act in court on a key day in which legal papers in the case were due.
Reps. Ruben Gallego, Ann Kirkpatrick and Greg Stanton issued statements through the campaign of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, calling the Trump administration's work "heartless and shortsighted."
LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) - Two Arizona congressmen are calling for a price gouging investigation after they say a Lexington based company raised its prices for masks by 600 percent.
Phoenix area Congressmen Greg Stanton and Ruben Gallego made the claim in a letter to U.S Attorney General William Barr, and said the vendor is commonly used by the Phoenix police and fire departments.
In interviews, the congressmen identified the vendor as Kentucky based company, Galls.
An urgent help sign sits near disinfectant wipes at a Vitalant blood drive in Sunnyslope on March 27, 2020. According to Vitalant, almost 200 blood drives have been cancelled since March 19, 2020, which they say has caused a national blood shortage.
More than 50 years after the last above-ground atomic bomb was detonated at the Nevada Test Site, lawmakers are trying to ensure that more Nevadans exposed to nuclear radiation receive compensation.
Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., and Rep. Greg Stanton, D-Ariz., introduced a bill Friday, the Downwinders Parity Act, that would expand the "affected area" as defined by the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA). Signed into law in 2000, RECA is the existing means by which those who developed illnesses from nuclear radiation exposure can apply for government compensation.
WASHINGTON, D.C.-Rep. Greg Stanton and Rep. Paul Gosar today introduced H.R. 5992, the Downwinders Parity Act, to bring justice to victims of radiation exposure in Mohave County in northwestern Arizona and Clark County in southern Nevada.
WASHINGTON, D.C.-Rep. Greg Stanton, along with members of both the House and Senate, cosigned a bipartisan letter to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Robert Redfield to request additional resources to cities with confirmed cases of coronavirus.