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"Schrier said it has been 37 years since her pediatrician told her she had Type 1 diabetes.
'At that time, insulin was cheap,' Schrier said. 'But the cost of insulin has skyrocketed. And most of us need more than one bottle per month. When people can’t afford insulin, they try to make that bottle last as long as it possibly can. So they ration their insulin, taking just enough to stay alive, but not enough to keep them healthy. And that is sometimes deadly.'"
AUBURN, WA – Today U.S. Representative Kim Schrier, M.D. (WA-08) joined President Joe Biden for an event about lowering costs for American families at Green River College in Auburn. Several 8th District residents joined the Congresswoman and President to speak about how increasing health care and prescription drug costs have affected their families.
WASHINGTON, DC – During a Health Subcommittee hearing this week, U.S. Representative Kim Schrier, M.D. (WA-08) posed questions to experts on the need for her proposal, the “Supporting Children’s Mental Health Care Access Act,” a bill to reauthorize funding for programs that help address the pediatric mental health workforce shortage. Rep. Schrier’s remarks can be found here and here.
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Representatives Kim Schrier, M.D. (D-WA) and Mariannette Miller-Meeks, M.D. (R-IA), the only two women doctors in Congress, have introduced the Supporting Children’s Mental Health Care Access Act, a bill to reauthorize funding for children’s mental and behavioral health programs. This bill would help address the children’s mental health care crisis exacerbated by the pandemic.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today U.S. Representatives Kim Schrier, M.D. (D-WA) and Richard Hudson (R-NC) introduced a bill to prevent and address staffing shortages during disaster and pandemic responses (HR 6634).
“Congresswoman Kim Schrier, M.D. (WA-08) and Suzanne Bonamici (OR-01) are reintroducing the Healthy Meal Time Act to reduce food waste in schools and further ensure that kids have the time to eat a proper meal.
“Washington Rep. Kim Schrier says the promised 10 million rapid tests in schools are a step in the right direction, but she wants more.”
Kim Schrier, a Democrat, is a physician and represents Washington’s 8th Congressional District in the U.S. House.
In the midst of the holiday season and with omicron, the highly contagious coronavirus variant, spreading around the world, this is a time when the United States ought to be providing inexpensive — or, even better, free — rapid coronavirus tests to anyone who wants one.
“The Supporting Health Care Providers During the Covid-19 Pandemic Act, which has bipartisan support from leadership in the House and Senate, would blunt some of the cuts — but not all.
'A pandemic is not the time to be cutting access to doctors for patients on Medicare,' Kim Schrier, (D-Wash.) who introduced the bill along with Steven Horsford (D-Nev.), said in a statement.”
“Chelan County’s congresswoman, Kim Schrier, is reportedly answering the call from countless veterans who feel they’ve been stonewalled by Wenatchee’s VA Community Outpatient Clinic. Schrier visited the Wenatchee Community Based Outpatient Clinic (CBOC) last Thursday. The CBOC in Wenatchee serves Veterans in six Washington counties.