Medical Economics November 17, 2021
The “Cures 2.0” bill, if signed into law, would expand medical research, aid development of new therapies and expand telehealth.
Editor’s note: This article was first published on Chief Healthcare Executive.
Healthcare and research advocates are cheering the introduction of a new bill that supporters say will spur new cures and therapies and expand telehealth access.
U.S. Reps. Diana DeGette, D-Colo., and Fred Upton, R-Mich., introduced the “Cures 2.0” bill Tuesday. The measure would create the new federal research agency proposed by President Joe Biden: the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, or ARPA-H.
The bill would offer $6.5 billion to finance the agency for three years, the amount the White House requested.
The agency is designed to undertake novel,...
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