AACN's Latest Advocacy, Coalition, and Policy Efforts
June 27: AACN signed onto an American Council on Education letter to Senate leadership expressing concerns with cuts to federal student aid and new taxes on higher education institutions proposed in the Senate Finance and Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committees’ budget reconciliation bills.
June 25: AACN signed onto a letter led by the Alliance for Women’s Health and Prevention, American Medical Women’s Association, HealthyWomen, The National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women’s Health, and the Society for Women’s Health Research. The letter urged Senate leadership, as well as the leadership of the Senate Finance Committee, to reject proposed cuts to the Medicaid program in the Committee’s budget reconciliation bill due to their impact on women’s and child health care.
June 23: AACN signed onto a Nursing Community Coalition (NCC) letter thanking Representatives Tim Walberg (R-MI-05) and Joe Courtney (D-CT-02) for introducing the Improving Access to Workers’ Compensation for Injured Federal Workers Act (H.R.3170), and supporting its passage this Congress. This bipartisan bill would retire outdated barriers in the Federal Employees’ Compensation Act (FECA) that limit the ability of nurse practitioners (NPs) to diagnose and oversee the care and treatment of federal employees who are injured or become ill in the course of their employment.
June 17: AACN led a healthcare community sign on letter advocating for higher education provisions in the Senate budget reconciliation process. This includes preserving subsidized loans for undergraduates, retaining the Grad PLUS Program, increasing the proposed aggregate limit for unsubsidized federal loans, and preserving other federal loan programs.
June 10: AACN signed onto a statement led by the APRN Workgroup expressing strong concerns over HHS Secretary Kennedy’s decision to dismiss all members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP).
June 9: AACN signed onto an American Council on Education amicus brief to the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, in support of Harvard University’s motion for a summary judgement regarding a freeze in federal research funds.