Health Care

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Senate’s bipartisan cosponsors of the Affordable Connectivity Program Extension Act today shared new letters of support for their bipartisan bill to extend the Affordable Connectivity Program from the American Hospital Association, which represents nearly 5,000 member hospitals and more than 270,000 affiliated physicians, and America’s…

Report Finds Big Drug Companies Raked in Nearly $29 Billion in Profits & Spent Over $28 Billion Rewarding Shareholders In Just The First Three Months of 2024 WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and U.S. Representative Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.-06) joined Protect Our Care to call out…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – This week, Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) was awarded the National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians’ (NAEMT) ‘Legislator of the Year Award,’ which he accepted at the association’s Annual “EMS On the Hill Day” with EMS professionals and health care advocates.   Earlier this…

SPRINGFIELD, VT – Today, Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) convened a roundtable at the Turning Point Recovery Center of Springfield with recovery peers, leaders from the Vermont Department of Health and the Department of Corrections, health professionals, and the Springfield police for a productive discussion about community partnerships to…

A bill co-sponsored by Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, to take on the "deadly rise" of xylazine, an animal tranquilizer, in the nation's illicit drug supply − including in Vermont − will soon be signed into law by President Joe Biden, according to a news release. The bipartisan…