Sentences with phrase «health committee chairman»

«New York is not about to sit still and have coverage for the full range of reproductive care taken away from New Yorkers,» said Assemblyman Health Committee Chairman Richard Gottfried.

GOP Health Committee Chairman Kemp Hannon voted no, saying he believes Gov. Andrew Cuomo is intent on enacting a different plan, based on a 1980s law that was passed but never put into effect.

Senate Health Committee Chairman Kemp Hannon (R - Nassau County) said the proposal is currently «under discussion» in his committee and did not rule out a floor vote before the end of the Legislature's session in June.

Senate Health Committee Chairman Kemp Hannon (R - Nassau), a private - practice lawyer, didn't mince words as he confronted the issue head on with a «no comment.»

«I think we are focused on specific bills and not getting into this larger debate that is clouding the politics,» Senate Health Committee chairman Kemp Hannon (R - Garden City) said.

Assemblyman and Health Committee chairman Richard Gottfried, who is the bill's sponsor in that chamber, did not immediately respond to request for comment about whether or not he supports the changes.

The proposed bill is sponsored in the Senate by GOP Health Committee Chairman Kemp Hannon and Independent Democratic Conference member Tony Avella and in the Assembly by Democratic Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal.

Critics of the program's limited scale, including State Senator Diane Savino and Assembly health committee chairman Richard Gottfried, said the governor's plan also relies on an unstable source for the drug's supply, and could potentially use marijuana seized by law - enforcement officials, instead of the purified and specially - grown strains developed to treat specific medical conditions.

Senate Health Committee chairman Kemp Hannon (R - Garden City) suggests requiring doctors to list the insurance plans they accept.

Drug advocates and Assembly Health Committee Chairman Richard Gottfried have criticized the plan as too narrow.

The New York State Nurses Association has endorsed Democratic Senate candidate Ryan Cronin on Thursday, giving the nod to the challenger over the incumbent Senate Health Committee chairman Kemp Hannon.

Hannon's rival, Democrat Ryan Cronin, in a statement called the funding effort a problem, given Hannon's duty to regulate the health care industry as the Senate Health Committee chairman.

To recipients include Senate Health Committee Chairman Kemp Hannon and Assembly Majority Leader Joe Morelle.

Senate Health Committee Chairman Kemp Hannon on Thursday called on Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office to investigate the hike in the cost of EpiPens after its manufacturer boosted the price in the last year by 75 percent.

The City Council's health committee chairman, the sponsor of several anti-tobacco laws, regularly smoked cigarettes at the city's legislative office building, according to government sources who witnessed the smoky back - room behavior.

«Mylan has spent billions of dollars making EpiPen a household name synonymous with epinephrine, but there are lesser - known products such as generic Adrenaclick, which can be purchased for approximately $ 140 for a two - pack,» said Senate Health Committee Chairman Kemp Hannon, a Long Island Republican.

«I think we have a good structure for moving forward,» said Sen. Kemp Hannon, R - Long Island, the Senate Health Committee chairman.

But Democratic Assemblyman and health committee chairman Richard Gottfried has said he may be willing to consider some form of private equity investment in hospitals this year.

This year, both Gottfried and the Senate health committee chairman, Long Island Republican Kemp Hannon, think the health agenda will be dominated by the need to secure additional investment in hospitals.

Assembly sponsor and Health Committee Chairman Richard Gottfried says his bill would take advantage of the burgeoning new industry of medical marijuana growing in other states, where new strains of the drug are being developed to treat more conditions.

While Savino estimates that at least 39 senators support the measure - seven more than is needed for approval - it is unclear whether the new revisions will be enough to persuade key Senate leaders, including GOP leader Dean Skelos and Health Committee Chairman Kemp Hannon, both Republicans from Long Island, to allow a vote.

The Republicans initially cited «Obamacare» in the wake of the same - sex marriage bill passage as the reason why they wouldn't follow the Assembly's lead last summer and pass the health care exhange bill, even though one of their veteran members, Senate Health Committee Chairman Kemp Hannon, had been involved in drafting the measure and supported it.

But they also want Hannon, the Senate Health Committee chairman, to go further and release the information gained by lawmakers when reviewing the PFOA contamination in the village, which has been blamed on Honeywell and Saint Gobain facilities.

I reached Assemblyman Richard Gottfried, the chamber's Health Committee chairman and longtime medical marijuana advocate, on the phone yesterday.

Previously, the hospital PAC had committed $ 115,199 in independent expenditure spending to aid the re-election effort of Republican Senate Health Committee Chairman Kemp Hannon on Long Island.

Others, including Assembly Health Committee Chairman Richard Gottfried, have called for such a program, but getting a majority of lawmakers to support it would be a challenge.

State Sen. Health Committee Chairman Kemp Hannon called the bill from his fellow Republicans in Washington «unacceptable» and «poor public policy.»

So does Assembly Health Committee Chairman Richard Gottfried, likening such a change to a legislative surrender of the allocation of school aid or the power to establish tax rates.

The single - payer health plan legislation is sponsored in the Assembly by Health Committee Chairman Richard Gottfried (D - Manhattan).

«The hospital industry has never liked the Health Department looking over their shoulder,» said Assembly Health Committee Chairman Richard Gottfried, who is fighting to get the audit funds restored.

Senate Health Committee Chairman Kemp Hannon (R - Nassau County) did not rule out supporting the measure but said he needs more information about how the drug would be used and the impact it might have before deciding how to proceed.

Schumer placed his hopes in resumption of bipartisan negotiations between Senate health committee chairman Lamar Alexander (R - Tenn.)

The union gave its endorsements to Democrats and Republicans in the state Senate, but also backed Republican Health Committee Chairman Kemp Hannon.

At 5:30 p.m., state Senate Health Committee Chairman Kemp Hannon and others discuss healthcare issues on Capitol Hill, specifically on primary care, Melville Marriott Long Island, 1350 Walt Whitman Rd., Melville.

At 8 a.m., breakfast reception for Assembly Health Committee Chairman Richard Gottfried, The State Room, 100 State St., second floor, Albany.

«Each year the waiting list for organ transplants grows longer, with nearly 10,000 New Yorkers currently awaiting a transplant in this state alone,» said Senate Health Committee Chairman Kemp Hannon.

Senate Health Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander and Sen. Susan Collins, Maine Republican, have partnered with Democrats on bills that would reel in rate hikes by resuming reimbursements for insurers who pick up low - income customers costs on the Obamacare exchanges and freeing up billions for a «reinsurance» program that blunts the cost of customers with big claims, so others don't have to pay more.

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Despite the dozens of optimistic press releases and announcements from Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander, chairman of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee (HELP), and House champion Fred Upton, chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, the measure is stuck.

WASHINGTON, Jan 11 - U.S. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady said on Thursday getting rid of the so - called Cadillac tax on high - cost employer - provided health insurance could be part of the spending deal now under negotiation in Congress.

WASHINGTON, Jan 11 (Reuters)- U.S. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady said on Thursday getting rid of the so - called Cadillac tax on high - cost employer - provided health insurance could be part of the spending deal now under negotiation in Congress.

He has been a director of CVR Partners LP (NYSE: UAN), a nitrogen fertilizer producer, since May 2014 where he is currently the Chairman of the Environmental, Health and Safety Committee and a member of the Audit Committee.

Marc Kaplan, Associate Dean, Columbia University School of Nursing Member of the Executive Board and Chairman, PRSA Health Academy Conference Committee

The resolution, which will be marked up by the House Education and Workforce Committee on Thursday, is co-signed by Rep. Phil Roe, R - Tenn., chairman of the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions, along with Rep. Charles Boustany, R - Louisiana, chairman of the Subcommittee on Tax Policy.

Perez's comments come after Rep. John Kline, R - Minn., chairman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, and Rep. Phil Roe, R - Tenn., chairman of the Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions Subcommittee, told Perez in March 4 letter to furnish to them by March 18 all of the correspondence between the DOL and SEC regarding DOL's fiduciary redraft.

Professor Robert Shiller, Professor of Economics at Yale University, and David Blitzer, Managing Director and Chairman of the Index Committee at S&P Dow Jones Indices, discussed the overall health of the U.S. residential housing market and those factors that could impact the pace of recent home price increases during a live S&P Dow Jones Indices -LSB-...]

But don't worry, David A. Catalina, the chairman of the D.C. Council Committee on Health, is on the job working to improve education in the District.

Those were some of the findings of a survey conducted by the Youth Sexual Health Project, funded by the D.C. Council Committee on Health, whose chairman, council member David A. Catania (I - At Large), had a hearing on the issue Wednesday.

CHAMPIONS INCLUDE: Dave Lewis, Group Chief Executive, Tesco (Chair) Erik Solheim, Executive Director, United Nations Environment (Co-Chair) Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Peter Bakker, President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development John Bryant, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Kellogg Company Paul Bulcke, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Nestlé Nguyen Xuan Cuong, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Vietnam Michael La Cour, Managing Director, IKEA Food Services AB Wiebe Draijer, Chairman of the Executive Board, Rabobank Shenggen Fan, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute Peter Freedman, Managing Director, The Consumer Goods Forum Louise Fresco, President of the Executive Board, Wageningen University & Research Liz Goodwin, Senior Fellow and Director, Food Loss and Waste, World Resources Institute Marcus Gover, Chief Executive Officer, Waste and Resources Action Programme Hans Hoogeveen, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the UN Organizations for Food and Agriculture Gilbert Houngbo, President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Selina Juul, Chairman of the Board and Founder, Stop Wasting Food Movement in Denmark Yolanda Kakabadse, President, WWF International Sam Kass, Former White House Chef, Founder of TROVE and Venture Partner, Acre Venture Partners Michel Landel, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Sodexo Esben Lunde Larsen, Minister of Environment and Food, Denmark José Antonio Meade, Minister of Finance, Mexico Gina McCarthy, Former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Denise Morrison, President and Chief Executive Officer, Campbell Soup Company Kanayo Nwanze, Former President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Rafael Pacchiano, Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico Paul Polman, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever Juan Lucas Restrepo Ibiza, Chairman, Global Forum on Agricultural Research Judith Rodin, Former President, The Rockefeller Foundation Oyun Sanjaasuren, Chair, Global Water Partnership Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, Vice President for Country Support, Policy and Delivery, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa Feike Sijbesma, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Managing Board, Royal DSM Rajiv Shah, President, The Rockefeller Foundation Andrew Steer, President and Chief Executive Officer, World Resources Institute Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme Tristram Stuart, Founder, Feedback Rhea Suh, President, Natural Resources Defense Council Rhoda Peace Tumusiime, Former Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, The African Union Sunny Verghese, Co-Founder, Group Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Olam International Tom Vilsack, Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture Senzeni Zokwana, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Republic of South Africa

Dave Lewis, Group Chief Executive, Tesco (Chair) Erik Solheim, Executive Director, United Nations Environment (Co-Chair) Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Peter Bakker, President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development John Bryant, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Kellogg Company Paul Bulcke, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Nestlé Wiebe Draijer, Chairman of the Executive Board, Rabobank Shenggen Fan, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute Peter Freedman, Managing Director, The Consumer Goods Forum Louise Fresco, President of the Executive Board, Wageningen University & Research Liz Goodwin, Senior Fellow and Director, Food Loss and Waste, World Resources Institute Marcus Gover, Chief Executive Officer, Waste and Resources Action Programme Hans Hoogeveen, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the UN Organizations for Food and Agriculture Selina Juul, Chairman of the Board and Founder, Stop Wasting Food Movement in Denmark Yolanda Kakabadse, President, WWF International Sam Kass, Senior Food Analyst at NBC News and former U.S. White House Chef Michael La Cour, Managing Director, IKEA Food Services AB Michel Landel, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Sodexo Esben Lunde Larsen, Minister of Environment and Food, Denmark José Antonio Meade, Minister of Finance, Mexico Gina McCarthy, Former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Denise Morrison, President and Chief Executive Officer, Campbell Soup Company Kanayo Nwanze, Former President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Rafael Pacchiano, Secretary of the Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico Paul Polman, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever Juan Lucas Restrepo Ibiza, Chairman, Global Forum on Agricultural Research Judith Rodin, Former President, The Rockefeller Foundation Oyun Sanjaasuren, Chair, Global Water Partnership Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, Vice President for Country Support, Policy and Delivery, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa Feike Sijbesma, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Managing Board, Royal DSM Andrew Steer, President and Chief Executive Officer, World Resources Institute Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme Tristram Stuart, Founder, Feedback Rhea Suh, President, Natural Resources Defense Council Rhoda Peace Tumusiime, Former Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, The African Union Sunny Verghese, Co-Founder, Group Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Olam International Tom Vilsack, Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture Senzeni Zokwana, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Republic of South Africa

«Walter Willett, a physician and chairman of the department of nutrition at Harvard University's School of Public Health, calls the committee report «egregious,» saying it excludes at least six major studies linking dairy consumption to prostate cancer.