Senate Finance Subcommittee on Health Care

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Member of the Senate Finance Subcommittee on Health Care, and U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) introduced the Rural Communities Opioid Response Program (RCORP) Authorization Act, bipartisan, bicameral legislation to  maintain the Rural Communities Opioid Response Program, which was…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Member of the Senate Finance Subcommittee on Health Care, today released the following statement on the state of abortion care and reproductive rights in America, four years after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade:  “The erosion of reproductive freedom in America didn’t happen overnight. In exchange…

Rural Community Hospital Demonstration (RCHD) provides lifeline to rural communities  BURLINGTON, VT — U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Finance Subcommittee on Health Care, shared that over a dozen rural hospital leaders from Vermont and across the United States are praising the Senate’s unanimous passage of…

Rural Community Hospital Demonstration (RCHD) provides lifeline to rural communities WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Finance Subcommittee on Health Care joined U.S. Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) in introducing the Rural Community Hospital Demonstration Reauthorization Act, which would extend the Rural Community Hospital Demonstration (RCHD) for five years. RCHD provides a…