Health Care
Health care should be a right, not a privilege, for all Americans. This was a principle I fought for while serving on New Hampshire’s Executive Council and one I’m fighting for in Washington. That is why I am committed to ensuring that all Granite Staters receive quality, affordable health care.
The Affordable Care Act was an important step forward in the fight to improve our country’s health care system. While it is certainly not perfect, it should be built upon, not torn down, which is why I will fight all efforts to roll back crucial protections like those for people with pre-existing conditions.
We should be stabilizing and expanding the ACA as we work to lower the cost of health care for everyone. As we improve upon insurance coverage, we have to ensure access to reproductive health care, improve mental health care access and rural health care access, and lower the cost of prescription drugs. We have much more work to do to focus on the health and well-being of the American people.
I will continue to fight for proposals that will expand access, improve health outcomes, and lower the cost of prescription drugs for Granite Staters.
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Three bipartisan bills backed by Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01) were voted out of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce last week, and now head to the House floor for a vote before the full House of Representatives.
Today Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01) joined Congresswoman Judy Chu (CA-28), Congresswoman Kathy Castor (FL-14), and Congresswoman Summer Lee (PA-12) in introducing the Drug Deal Disclosure Act, legislation that would require the Trump administration to publicly disclose its prescription drug pricing agreements with pharmaceutical manufacturers and subject those agreements to independent review to determine whether they are actually lowering costs for patients and taxpayers.
Following advocacy from the New Hampshire Congressional delegation, Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01) joined Senator Jeanne Shaheen (NH), a senior member of the U.S.
Today Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01), Ranking Member of the Economic Opportunity Subcommittee of the House Veterans' Affairs Committee, continued his push for updates at the Manchester VA Medical Center (VAMC) by requesting an update from Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA), Doug Collins, on VA’s ongoing efforts for the construction and expansion of new facilities at the Manchester VAMC.
Yesterday Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01), Congresswoman Maggie Goodlander (NH-02), and more than 250 Senate and House Democrats
On Monday, Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01) and over 120 Members sent a letter to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert Kennedy urging him to extend Title X grants that provide critical family planning funding to health care centers across the country after HHS failed to provide guidance for months.
Today Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01) joined a bipartisan group of over 150 House and Senate colleagues in calling for the U.S. Department of Education to not make changes to post-baccalaureate nursing degrees that would saddle nurses with more student loan debt.
Today Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01) and Congressman Zach Nunn (IA-03) introduced the Protecting Rural Telehealth Access Act in the U.S. House of Representatives. This legislation will expand access to health care and save patients time and money by making permanent Medicare coverage of telehealth services that began during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Legislation led by Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01) is a part of the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus’s Affordability Agenda, a comprehensive proposal to lower the cost of living in the United States. The framework received overwhelming support from members of the caucus, which is evenly split between Democrats and Republicans.