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Health Care

April 5, 2012

Program will provide home visits to at-risk families to improve child health and developmental outcomes

Issues: Health Care

April 3, 2012

Bipartisan bill will temporarily fix an unintended consequence of current law and elevate the Office of Generics Drugs within the FDA

Issues: Health Care

March 23, 2012

On the two year anniversary of the historic health care reform law, the Affordable Care Act, Congressman Frank Pallone, Senior Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee and one of the principal authors of the law, released the following statement:

Issues: Health Care

March 23, 2012

WASHINGTON, D.C. – On the anniversary of President Obama signing the historic Affordable Care Act, Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.), a senior member of the Senate Finance Committee, today introduced legislation that would help more small businesses provide health care to their employees by expanding the Small Business Health Care Tax Credit.

Issues: Health Care

March 15, 2012

Pallone visits Greebriar Senior Community to discuss benefits and savings for seniors as a result of the Affordable Care Act

Issues: Health Care

February 29, 2012

WASINGTON, D.C.— Today, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06), Senior Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Health issued the following statement at a meeting of the Health Subcommittee regarding the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB).

Issues: Health Care

February 23, 2012

Washington, DC— Representatives Rosa DeLauro (CT-3), Ranking Member on the Labor, Health, and Human Services Appropriations Subcommittee, and Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-6) called on FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg to set standards for the maximum allowable levels of dangerous heavy metals, including arsenic, in foods and beverages.

Issues: Health Care

February 22, 2012

Pallone visits New Brunswick, NJ preschool to call for FDA action to address the presence of arsenic and lead in fruit juices and baby formula