Health Care
Washington, D.C. – On Monday, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) and Congressman Bob Gibbs (R-OH) continued their bipartisan push to provide financial relief for hospitals hurt by the coronavirus pandemic. Kaptur and Gibbs are joined by 40 colleagues introducing The COVID-19 Hospital Forgiveness Act, which forgives loans made to hospitals and healthcare providers through the Medicare Accelerated and Advance Payments program.
Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) and Congresswoman Jaime Herrera Beutler (WA-03) led a bipartisan group of 11 lawmakers urging the Office of Management and Budget to provide robust funding in 2019 to programs that address mental health, suicide prevention and substance use disorders.
Washington, DC – Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) and Congresswoman Ashley Hinson (IA-02) introduced the bipartisan Opioid Settlement Accountability Act, legislation aimed at ensuring the funds that states receive from opioid settlements are used to fight the epidemic and are focused towards treatment, prevention, education, and enforcement.
TOLEDO, OH – On Thursday, May 23, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), Dean of the Ohio Congressional Delegation, and Congressman Dave Joyce (OH-14) introduced the bipartisan East Palestine Health Impact Monitoring Act of 2024 to authorize funding through Fiscal Year 2028 to conduct a study of the long-term health impacts of the 2023 East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment.
Toledo, OH – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), through its Child Lead Poisoning Prevention program, has awarded The Junction Coalition a $600,000 grant, spanning over a three-year period, to help reduce lead poisoning in the Toledo community.
Americans pay the highest prescription drug prices in the world — in some cases,
Washington, DC – Today, Representatives Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), Annie Kuster (NH-02), and Donald Norcross (NJ-01) are leading more than sixty of their colleagues in calling on Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer to prioritize policies that will help tackle the opioid epidemic.
Washington, D.C. — Representatives Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio) and David B. McKinley, P.E., (R-W.Va.) introduced bipartisan legislation aimed at ensuring the funds that states receive from opioid settlements are used to fight the epidemic and are focused towards treatment, prevention, education, and enforcement.
Toledo, Ohio — Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, and Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, sent a
WASHINGTON, DC – This week, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), Congressman Dave Joyce (OH-14), Congresswoman Emilia Sykes (OH-13), and Congressman Michael Rulli (OH-06) introduced the East Palestine Health Impact Monitoring Act of 2025 to authorize funding to conduct a study of the long-term health impacts caused by the 2023 East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment.