PANDEMIC AND ALL HAZARDS PREPAREDNESS ACT (PAHPA) The Chamber will support reauthorization of PAHPA (2006) to comprehensively improve the Nation’s public health and medical preparedness and response capabilities for emergencies, whether deliberate, accidental, or natural. PUBLIC HEALTH GRANTS The Chamber will advocate for federal public health grant dollars to be allocated directly to local city-county health departments. TRIBAL AND RURAL HEALTH CARE/JOINT VENTURE CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM The Chamber will protect and enhance federal support for tribal and rural health care including, but not limited to, the Joint Venture Construction Program which is a premiere example of federal-tribal partnership to ensure availability of first-class tribal health care infrastructure.
reform necessary at the federal agency level to maintain certainty for the life sciences industry.
RARE PEDIATRIC DISEASE PRIORITY REVIEW VOUCHER (PRV) PROGRAM The Chamber supports the 5-year reauthorization of the “Rare Pediatric Disease Priority Review Voucher (PRV) Program”. This program allows companies to benefit from a free-market driven voucher as they seek to deliver life-saving treatments for rare pediatric disease. This incentive has led to 50 different treatments for pediatric care. SINGLE-PAYER HEALTH CARE The Chamber supports improving health care quality, access and affordability without imposing new mandates and/or taxes on businesses or removing employer choice. Therefore, the Chamber opposes a single-payer government-run/public option or health care system with excessive government mandates. EMPLOYER-DRIVEN MARKET REFORMS The Chamber believes that employers drive innovation in health benefits and supports market-driven health reforms as the best approach to reducing costs while promoting market stability, efficiency, wellness and quality of care.
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