Prevent Blindness proudly stands alongside our colleagues across the health spectrum to promote policies that improve our national health and well-being. Many groups have mutual policy goals in areas that often overlap with vision and eye health; for example, ensuring patients can access safe and effective drugs, increasing the budget on federal public health and medical research programs, or improving the health of our nation’s seniors through strong community networks. In advocacy, there is strength in numbers, and our strong coalition partnerships help us achieve policy goals that would be too difficult to take on as a singular effort. For more information on issues which Prevent Blindness leads, please visit our Advocacy Initiatives page.
April 5: Prevent Blindness supports funding for CDC’s REACH program in FY2022
March 18: Prevent Blindness endorses H.R. 1025, the Kids Access to Primary Care Act
March 8: Friends of HRSA requests $9.2 billion for HRSA in FY2022
March 5: Prevent Blindness endorses the Child Poverty Reduction Act
March 4: Prevent Blindness endorses legislation to restore Prevention and Public Health Fund
March 2: Prevent Blindness endorses efforts to fund Pediatric Subspecialty Loan Repayment Program
March 1: CDC Coalition requests $10 billion to CDC in FY2022 appropriations
April 5: Prevent Blindness supports funding for CDC’s REACH program in FY2022
January 26: Prevent Blindness endorses Children’s Budget Coalition “1% for Kids” recommendation
January 25: Patient and provider groups urge Medicaid Section 1115 waivers to be rescinded
December 30: Coalition urges CMS to cover low vision devices and assistive technology
December 4: Prevent Blindness endorses legislation to improve access to maternal health
July 16: 89 organizations advocate for H.R. 6561, the Improving Social Determinants of Health Act to be included in COVID-19 legislation
June 29: ITEM Coalition urges Medicare Coverage for Low Vision Devices
April 15: Prevent Blindness joins Public Health Workforce Coalition
March 23: Families USA letter requesting state and local relief to safeguard Medicaid programs