H.R. 5629 would wipe out the 2024 rule letting methadone patients take doses home and start treatment by telehealth. It has zero cosponsors. Addiction medicine groups say it would mean more overdose deaths.
In a closed-door meeting, the NRCC chairman advised his members to swap in-person town halls for tele-town halls and Facebook Lives. Then he held one himself — 50 minutes, 11 screened questions, and a Medicaid denial he voted to disprove 72 days later.
In April 2025 Jeff Hurd signed a letter vowing he could not and would not back any bill that cut Medicaid coverage for vulnerable people. Five weeks later he voted for it. Then he voted for it again — and more than 32,000 people in his district are projected to lose coverage.
Site-neutral payment means Medicare pays the same for the same service wherever it happens — and patients' 20% share drops with it. At an April Ways and Means meeting, Moran spoke against it. His donors include the American Hospital Association PAC.
In May, HHS handed the surgeon general's duties to Stephanie Haridopolos — a staffer the Senate never confirmed, and the wife of Rep. Mike Haridopolos, who six months earlier voted to let Floridians' insurance premiums spike.
In April 2025 he put his name on a letter vowing he would not support any bill reducing Medicaid coverage for vulnerable people. A month later he told a columnist Virginians were protected. Then he voted yes — and 20,859 people in his own district are projected to lose coverage.
In June 2026 Estes led a letter asking RFK Jr. to reinstate the 2019 Title X 'Protect Life Rule.' The last time that rule was in force, an estimated 981 clinics walked out of the program and it served 2.5 million fewer patients.
Researchers named McLaren Central Michigan in Mount Pleasant and UM Health-Sparrow Carson — both in his district — among the rural hospitals most at risk. Three weeks later John Moolenaar voted for the budget bill that cuts about $1 trillion from Medicaid. The rural health bill he keeps introducing is a payment-rule fix that has never reached a floor vote in twenty years.
Doctors in the room shouted that it was false. Bilirakis backed up the claim by pointing at a real board — one that was never appointed, never met, was legally barred from rationing care, and was abolished a year later. 'The board exists, OK?' he told CNN.