Thread by @charles_gaba

📣 The #BuildBackBetter Act will provide comprehensive healthcare coverage to over 2.2 MILLION low-income Americans in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Wisconsin and Wyoming.

📣 The #BuildBackBetter Act will make #ACA healthcare coverage dramatically more affordable for over 12 million Americans through at least the end of 2025.

📣 The #BuildBackBetter Act will fund programs for states to further reduce out-of-pocket costs for #ACA exchange enrollees.

📣 The #BuildBackBetter Act will provide funding for Home & Community-Based Services (HCBS), including permanently extending both Medicaid protections against spousal impoverishment and the Money Follows the Person program so people can be cared for in their own homes.

📣 The #BuildBackBetter Act will extend Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program eligibility to a full 12 months for postpartum mothers and children.

📣 The #BuildBackBetter Act will PERMANENTLY FUND the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), which provides healthcare coverage for up to 9 million children in low-income households every year.

📣 The #BuildBackBetter Act will make HEARING TEST & HEARING AID coverage a mandatory benefit for Medicare enrollees.

📣 The #BuildBackBetter Act will support core public health infrastructure for the Centers for Disease Control, including state, territorial, local & Tribal health departments.

📣 The #BuildBackBetter Act will provide funding for federally qualified health centers, which provide healthcare services for 28 million Americans each year.

📣 The #BuildBackBetter Act will provide funding for palliative and hospice care, education, and training and nursing.

📣 The #BuildBackBetter Act will fund laboratory activities, preparedness research, development, countermeasure capacity & infrastructure modernization & innovation at the CDC, FDA & ASPR to prepare and battle THE NEXT INEVITABLE PANDEMIC.

📣 The #BuildBackBetter Act will provide funding for perinatal quality collaboratives, to diversify the maternal & perinatal health nursing workforce, to address social determinants of maternal health, and to grow the doula workforce.

📣 The #BuildBackBetter act will grow the maternal mental health & substance use disorder treatment workforce, to study maternal mortality & morbidity, and to identify & address climate change-related health risks for pregnant & postpartum women.

📣 The #BuildBackBetter Act will fund surveillance of birth defects & developmental disabilities, the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System and the Shriver Institute of Child Health & Human Development.

📣 The #BuildBackBetter Act will provide funding for the Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), inluding the National Child Traumatic Stress Network to improve mental health & trauma support for children.

📣 The #BuildBackBetter Act will help fund the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, community violence & trauma interventions, and the Ryan White HIV/AIDS program.

📣 The #BuildBackBetter Act will fund clinical services programs to prevent & control STDs; the Lifespan Respite Care program; the National Institutes of Health; and the World Trade Center Health Program for first responders to the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

📣 The #BuildBackBetter Act will fund Papa Ola Lokahi and other Native Hawaiian Health Care System programs.

📣 The #BuildBackBetter Act will fund the National Health Service Corps, the Nurse Corps, Pathway to Practice & other programs to address the MASSIVE HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONAL SHORTAGE in the U.S.

📣 The #BuildBackBetter Act will LIMIT INSULIN CO-PAYS to no more than $35/month for ALL group or individual health insurance policies.

📣 The #BuildBackBetter Act will provide funding for osteopathic or allopathic medical schools in underserved areas.

📣 The #BuildBackBetter Act will, at long last, ALLOW MEDICARE TO BEGIN NEGOTIATING PRESCRIPTION DRUG PRICES.

📣 The #BuildBackBetter Act will LIMIT MEDICARE PART D PRESCRIPTION DRUG COSTS to no more than $2,000/year.

...and that's just (most of) the HEALTHCARE provisions.

Details below.
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#BuildBackBetter

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