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Washington, DC – Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-CO) called the Senate's latest iteration of Trumpcare even more cruel than the version that the Senate abandoned last month.

"The tweaks made to the bill in the past two weeks won't address the damage it would do to millions of Americans who would lose health care or be forced to pay more for it," DeGette said. "Still included are substantial and heartless cuts to Medicaid, significantly higher costs for working families and seniors, and provisions that gut protections for those with pre-existing conditions.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-CO) today teamed up with Congressman Leonard Lance (R-NJ) on a bipartisan effort to improve clinical trials that was unanimously passed as part of the FDA Reauthorization Act. The effort will improve the way clinical trials are conducted to better measure the patient experience and ultimately help create better medicines and devices for the patient market.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-CO) and a bipartisan group of her House and Senate colleagues have introduced a bill providing fourth graders and their families free entrance to all federally-managed lands, waters and historic sites, including national parks – more than 2,000 sites in all.

The Every Kid Outdoors Act is meant to encourage kids to get outdoors and experience America's public spaces while engaging in healthy activity and educational programs.

WASHINGTON – Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-CO) has teamed up with colleagues to introduce bipartisan legislation that lets Medicare Advantage insurance plans offer a wider array of benefits to chronically ill enrollees. The bill, H.R. 3044, waives uniformity requirements among Medicare Advantage plans and lets insurers offer plans better tailored to meet the individual needs of patients with chronic illness.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Representatives Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Lynn Jenkins (R-KS) have introduced the Preventing Diabetes in Medicare Act of 2017 (H.R. 3124) to help curb America's diabetes epidemic. This bill will allow Medicare coverage of Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT) services for people with prediabetes and other risk factors for developing Type 2 diabetes.

Washington, DC – Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-CO), Chief Deputy Whip, said the report just issued by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office on the Senate bill to dismantle the Affordable Care Act shows this latest iteration of Trumpcare will harm many people and lead to needless deaths.

Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-CO), Chief Deputy Whip, said the Senate bill to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, unveiled this morning after being developed in secret among a small group of GOP Senate members, is a gift to the ultra-wealthy that will harm people who are struggling to get by, making health insurance unaffordable for millions of Americans and much more costly for millions others.

Washington, D.C. - Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-CO) today introduced bipartisan legislation H.R. 2953 with Congressman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), Chairman of the House and Energy Subcommittee on Health, that would direct the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to analyze scientific medical data to provide information on the savings of preventive health initiatives beyond the traditional 10-year scoring window.