Senate health committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) said that the Senate should finish its work on 21st Century Cures in September.
“Rarely do we have such an opportunity: it includes support for the President’s Precision Medicine initiative and the Vice President’s Cancer Moonshot. Speaker Ryan has said that 21st Century Cures is a major part of his health care agenda.
Majority Leader McConnell says he wants to pass the bill this year,” said Senator Alexander. “This could be the most important legislation Congress passes this year, and there’s no excuse for not finishing our work in September.”
Senator Alexander continued: “In 10 years, the head of the National Institutes of Health predicts we'll have a universal flu vaccine, hearts rebuilt from a patient's own cells so we don’t have to do transplants, non-addictive pain medication, and the ability to diagnose Alzheimer’s before symptoms, and delay the onset of this disease which causes untold family grief.”