The following statement was issued on November 30.
This
critically important legislation will get states the resources they
need to fight the heroin and prescription opioid epidemic. It invests
the $1 billion the President
has repeatedly said is necessary to help communities that have seen far
too many overdoses. It also responds to the Vice President’s call for a
Moonshot in cancer research by investing $1.8 billion in new resources
to transform cancer research and accelerate
discoveries. Plus, it invests nearly $3 billion to continue the
President’s signature biomedical research initiatives, the BRAIN and
Precision Medicine Initiatives, over the next decade to tackle diseases
like Alzheimer’s and create new research models to
find cures and better target treatments.
H.R.
34 also takes important steps to improve mental health, including
provisions that build on the work of the President's Mental Health and
Substance Use Disorder Parity
Task Force. It further advances the drug approval process by taking
steps like modernizing clinical trial design and better incorporating
patients’ voices into FDA’s decision-making processes. Like all
comprehensive legislation, the bill is not perfect, and
there are provisions the Administration would prefer were improved, but
the legislation offers advances in health that far outweigh these
concerns. The Senate should promptly pass this bill so that the
President can sign it.
Source: The White House, Office of the Press Secretary
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