Health Care
Weeks ago, as it became clear that a deadly pandemic was spreading to the U.S. and that individuals with underlying medical conditions are more at risk, I worried that African American and Latinos would be hard hit due to long-standing disparities.
Washington, DC – Congresswoman Robin Kelly (D-IL) and Congressman Brian Mast (R-FL) introduced the bipartisan Solid Start Reporting Act. The legislation establishes oversight baselines for a newly created program to support veteran mental health during the first year after departing military service.
Washington, DC – Today, Congresswomen Robin Kelly (IL-02) and Joyce Beatty (OH-03) led a letter signed by 30 members of Congress encouraging the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to provide additional support for seniors managing hypertension. Rep.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Rep. Robin L. Kelly (IL-02), Rep. Danny K. Davis (IL-07), and Illinois Rep. La Shawn K. Ford (8th) sent a letter to University of Illinois President Timothy L. Killeen requesting a meeting following disturbing revelations brought to their attention at UIC’s Dental School. Please click here for a copy of the full letter.
The COVID-19 pandemic has hit African American and Hispanic and Latino communities especially hard in terms of infection and death.
Hispanic and Latino residents account for 24.2% of the state's confirmed cases, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health; black residents account for 19.4% of reported cases. People who tested positive but left their racial descriptions blank made up of 27.4% of the cases as of Tuesday. Individuals who self-identify as white account for 21.6% of cases.
WASHINGTON, D.C.– Today, Congresswoman Robin Kelly (IL-02) applauded the Supreme Court’s unanimous decision in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA to protect mifepristone, a drug used in most medication abortions.
Across the United States, women die of pregnancy-related complications at a higher rate than in any other similarly large, wealthy country in the world. Expanding Medicaid will save the lives of women and babies and save money in our health care system. But the two states that we represent in the U.S. House of Representatives – Illinois and Florida – have taken very different approaches to this national crisis.
As of early April, around 72 percent of the people who had died from the coronavirus in Chicago were African-American. Rep. Robin Kelly, whose district includes Chicago's South Side, is working on legislation to require the federal government to collect and report racial and ethnic data associated with COVID-19.