Health

Everett Herald: At the Evergreen State Fair, try the deep-fried Oreos

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Families stood in line for roller coasters, nibbled at nachos and watched 4-H Club animal showings as the Evergreen State Fair opened Thursday. The fair will run through Sept. 4, but will be closed Wednesday. Attractions include a monster truck rally Friday, a Neon Trees concert Tuesday and an international lumberjack show Thursday. Liam Sorensen, 10, enjoyed the Tilt-a-Whirl because…

DelBene Delivers $750K for Snohomish County’s Food and Farming Center

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Today, Congresswoman Suzan DelBene (WA-01) presented Snohomish County with a $750K check for its Food and Farming Center, which will serve as a crucial resource hub for fruit and vegetable farmers across Snohomish, Whatcom, Skagit, and King counties. DelBene secured the investment in the Fiscal Year 2023 government funding law.   The Snohomish County Food and Farming Center will…

Salon: Time, food and money: With hunger on the rise, here are ways to actually help

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Hunger is on the rise in America. Food insecurity experts have predicted this surge for months, starting as soon as expanded pandemic-era supplemental nutrition benefits were cut earlier this year. According to the USDA, more than 34 million people, including 9 million children, in the United States are food insecure, while the pandemic increased food insecurity among…

Everett Herald: $250K in federal money to boost transit in east Snohomish County

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 Char McCain had the chance to visit family in Index this summer, a trip the 86-year-old bus rider from Snohomish doesn’t always get to make. There are few transit options between the two towns, though a $250,000 federal grant to Homage aims to help solve the problem for elderly, disabled and low-income people. Door-to-door transit throughout the eastern reaches of the county is…

DelBene Delivers Over $250K for Rural Snohomish Seniors Transportation Program

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Today, Congresswoman Suzan DelBene (WA-01) delivered over $250K to Homage, one of the largest senior services organizations in Snohomish County, to improve transportation services for seniors. The funds will allow Homage to purchase a new bus and expand its existing transportation assistance program into more rural areas of the county along US-2 (Snohomish to Index) and WA-522 (Monroe to…

DelBene, LaHood, Schrier, Wenstrup, Blumenauer, Bucshon Introduce Legislation to Accelerate Shift to Value-Based Care

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Today, Representatives Suzan DelBene (WA-01), Darin LaHood (IL-16), Kim Schrier, MD (WA-08), Brad Wenstrup (OH-02), Earl Blumenauer (OR-03), and Larry Bucshon, MD (IN-08) introduced a bipartisan bill that would make commonsense changes to Medicare’s Alternative Payment Models (APMs) program to incentivize greater participation in value-based health programs. The Value in Health Care Act…

DelBene Fights to Protect PNW Cancer Patients from GOP Medicare Cuts

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Today, Congresswoman Suzan DelBene (WA-01) pushed to protect cancer patients from Republicans’ efforts to cut Medicare payments to leading cancer centers around the country. DelBene offered an amendment during a Ways & Means committee markup that would exempt dedicated cancer centers, which treat patients with some of the most serious cancer diagnoses and perform cutting-edge research…

DelBene, Kelly, Bera, Bucshon Statement on Prior Auth Reform

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Representatives Suzan DelBene (WA-01), Mike Kelly (PA-16), Larry Bucshon, MD (IN-08), and Ami Bera, MD (CA-06), released the following statement on efforts to modernize and streamline prior authorization following today’s Ways & Means markup. “The ‘Improving Seniors’ Timely Access to Care Act’ continues to gain momentum in the 118th Congress following unanimous passage in the U.S.…

DelBene Statement on the Anniversary of SCOTUS Abortion Ruling

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Today, Congresswoman Suzan DelBene (WA-01) released the following statement ahead of the one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson decision.  “In the year since the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority overturned Roe v. Wade, stripping millions of Americans of the right to essential reproductive health care, we have witnessed the real-world consequences of…

Majority of Congress Urges Medicare to Finalize Proposals to Deliver Faster Care to Seniors

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Today, Representatives Suzan DelBene (WA-01), Mike Kelly (PA-16), Ami Bera, M.D. (CA-06), and Larry Bucshon, M.D. (IN-08), and Senators John Thune (SD), Sherrod Brown (OH), Roger Marshall, M.D. (KS), and Kyrsten Sinema (AZ) called on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to quickly finalize a set of proposed rules that would deliver quality care to seniors on Medicare…