Major Provisions of the 21st Century Cures Act
House Energy and Commerce Committee Summary
The House Energy and Commerce Committee and the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee have engaged in a public, nonpartisan conversation with patients, researchers, innovators, and health care providers about what steps can be taken to expedite the discovery, development, and delivery of new treatments and cures and maintain America’s global status as the leader in biomedical innovation. The 21st Century Cures Act is the product of that conversation. ■ Discovery Provide the National Institutes of Health with $4.8 billion in new funding that is fully offset. These dollars will help advance the Precision Medicine Initiative to drive research…
