Reps. Donald Payne, Jr., (D-NJ), Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), and Bobby Rush (D-IL) are preparing to reintroduce the Amputation Reduction and Compassion (ARC) Act which seeks to reduce the number of avoidable amputations suffered by peripheral artery disease (PAD) patients by requiring Medicare, Medicaid, and group health insurance plans to cover preventive screenings for high-risk individuals so PAD can be caught and treated early, before it leads to amputation. Additionally, this bill would disallow payments...
New pressure on Congress and the White House to reduce racial health disparities may be the tipping point to securing the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) action that has been long-sought by the public health community to ban the sale of menthol cigarettes.
In February, the ABC endorsed a report that details the tobacco industry’s decades-long targeting of Black communities, especially kids, with marketing for menthol cigarettes and the devastating...