WASHINGTON, D.C. – Reps. Earl L. “Buddy” Carter (R-GA), Yvette Clarke (D-NY), and Pete Sessions (R-TX) this week introduced the bipartisan Dental and Optometric Care Access (DOC Access) Act to provide fairness in contracts between health care providers and vision and dental insurers, thereby increasing the quality of care for patients and eliminating anti-competitive practices.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Reps. Earl L. “Buddy” Carter (R-GA), Bruce Westerman (R-AR), Jared Golden (D-ME), and Dutch Ruppersberger (D-MD) introduced the Patients’ Right to Know Their Medication Act of 2023 to ensure that rural Americans and seniors have access to important information about their prescription medications and to protect the jobs of hardworking Georgians.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. –Reps. Earl L. “Buddy” Carter (R-GA) and Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA) sent a letter to Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Robert Califf calling for the FDA to make naloxone, an overdose reversal drug, available without a prescription.
Our current fentanyl crisis has already killed more than 71,000 people, with tens of thousands of additional lives saved… Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Reps. Earl L. “Buddy” Carter (R-GA), Nanette Barragán (D-CA), Miller-Meeks (R-IA), and Diana DeGette (D-CO) this week introduced the Help Ensure Lower Patient (HELP) Copays Act to protect patients from harmful insurance and pharmacy benefit manager practices that raise patient out-of-pocket drug costs.
The bipartisan HELP Copays Act would prohibit the use of “copay… Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Earl L. “Buddy” Carter (R-GA) today introduced the Fairness in Orphan Drug Exclusivity Act, a bill to close a loophole that allows drug manufacturers to block new treatments options for rare diseases from coming to the market.
The Fairness in Orphan Drug Exclusivity Act amends the Orphan Drug Act of 1983 to require all drugs that obtain seven-years of… Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Reps. Earl L. "Buddy" Carter (R-GA) and Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE) introduced the Essential Medicines Strategic Stockpile Act to combat drug shortages and reduce the nation’s dependence on China for pharmaceuticals.
The bill, also introduced by the pair in the 117th Congress, would require the Department of Health and Human Services to establish a… Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rep. Earl L. "Buddy" Carter (R-GA) has secured new resources to help train and keep more health care workers in Georgia.
In August, Sen. Ossoff, Rep. Carter, and 11 bipartisan members of Georgia’s Congressional Delegation launched an inquiry with the Federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to approve a new program to bring… Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Earl L. “Buddy” Carter (R-GA) led a letter today alongside Ranking Member of the House Armed Services Committee Mike Rogers (R-AL) to Defense Health Agency (DHA) Director Lieutenant General Ronald J. Place calling on the DHA to ensure the men and women of the United States Armed Forces, military retirees, and their families, who have lost access to their local… Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Earl L. “Buddy” Carter (R-GA) and Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) celebrated today’s passage of their landmark legislation, H.R. 3630, the Lymphedema Treatment Act, which will ensure Medicare Part B coverage of doctor-prescribed compression garments, the clinically recognized treatment for lymphedema. The bill, which was reintroduced in June 2021, is also co-led by… Read more »
SAVANNAH, GA – Rep. Earl L. "Buddy" Carter (R-GA) today announced the “Pulling Back the Curtains on PBMs” report, an initiative to educate Members of Congress and the public on the role pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), the pharmaceutical industry’s middlemen, play in driving up costs for medications, delaying necessary treatments for patients, and robbing hope from their loved… Read more »
