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| 3426831 | 7d7a9bb3-78ef-4769-9ef2-7a8bdd5027c2 | Q3 | NATIONAL ADVOCACY CENTER OF THE SISTERS OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD | 77993 | CONFERENCE OF PROVINCIALS OF NORTH AMERICA | 2025 | third_quarter | HCR | PROTECT THE U.S. PREVENTATIVE SERVICES TASK FORCE (USPSTF): The sign-on expresses deep concern for the future of the USPSTF and urges HHS Sec. Kennedy to maintain its current structure, membership and processes to ensure that this objective, scientifically independent panel of experts can continue to make unbiased evidence-based recommendations about clinical preventative services that improved the lives of people across the nation. The recommendations help primary care providers know which preventive services to recommend for their patients and directly influences which preventive services health plans make available to Americans without cost sharing. Their work is foundational to a health care system that values prevention, equity, and affordability. However, widespread news reports indicate that HHS Secretary Kennedy is considering replacing the current USPSTF members en masse, without transparent and evidence-based justification. PRO-CONSUMER REFORMS TO LOWER HEALTH CARE COSTS: The sign-on urges Congress to act without delay upon return in September to pass common sense well-vetted policy solutions that would address the healthcare affordability crisis. These pro-consumer reforms include the following: 1) Enact a comprehensive same service, same price policy to stop big hospital corporations from charging more for the same routine care, and shifting patients to higher-cost care settings, saving an estimated $157 billion over ten years. 2) Strengthen hospital and health plan price transparency by requiring all hospitals and health plans to disclose their negotiated rates in dollars and cents with no exception. 3) End dishonest hospital billing to ensure that big hospital corporations are not overcharging in outpatient settings, saving an estimated $403 million over ten years. 4) Prohibit anti-competitive contracting, including between providers and insurers that limits patients' access to alternative sources of health care, which is estimated to save $3.2 billion over ten years. 5) Require greater transparency around the role of private equity and corporate ownership in health care to ensure all Americans, including those in rural communities, have access to the health care they need at a price they can afford. HEATH AND HUMAN SERVICES (HHS) PUBLIC BENEFITS NOTICE: The sign-on letter for a broad comment opposing a notice from HHS to rescind the 1998 interpretation of federal public benefit in the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act; the reinterpretation would result in limiting access based on immigration status. It speaks out against an attack on the health and wellbeing of immigrant families and urges HHS to suspend implementation of this guidance and return to the guidance that has been in effect since 1998. GLOBAL ACCESS TO LONG-ACTING LENACAPAVIR: The sign-on supports Lenacapavir use globally. It is the most powerful HIV prevention tool ever developed-offering six months of protection from a single injection-but its potential will be wasted without immediate and far-reaching access. The letter urges Gilead to expand and announce detailed plans for broadly registering long-acting Lenacapavir in low- and middle-income countries. | Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS),HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,SENATE | 20000 | 0 | 0 | 2025-10-01T18:07:02-04:00 |