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For Immediate Release
December 7, 2020 |
Media Contact
Thayer Roberts, Deputy Director thayer@pipcpatients.org |
Today, Partnership to Improve Patient Care (PIPC) Chairman Tony Coelho issued a statement congratulating President-elect Joe Biden for naming California Attorney General Xavier Becerra as his choice to lead the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
"On behalf of the Partnership to Improve Patient Care (PIPC), I want to congratulate my friend Xavier Becerra on his nomination to be the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Over the course of this pandemic, the inherent discrimination in our health care system is more apparent as we have seen people with disabilities and communities of color disproportionately impacted. All the while, Xavier Becerra has been at the helm fighting for the Affordable Care Act and the protection it provides to those with pre-existing conditions from discrimination. We recognize the tremendous challenges facing the agency as it works to rescind failed policies such as the “Most Favored Nation” rule that would import discrimination from foreign countries. We look forward to working with the new administration on solutions that maintain and expand the ACA’s protections against discrimination from use of quality-adjusted life years and similar metrics that devalue the lives of people with disabilities and fail to consider challenges facing communities of color."
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