Gee: Biden's budget includes Hepatitis C program modeled on Louisiana
Dr. Rebekah Gee · Ep 60: Dr. Rebekah Gee & Nest Health Are Saving Lives by Reinventing In-Home Care · Joe Lonsdale · Jun 1, 2023 · at 6:20
Dr. Rebekah Gee discusses how Louisiana's novel drug purchasing model for Hepatitis C is being scaled nationally by the Biden administration and former NIH director Francis Collins.
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“The President Biden put an initiative into his budget this year that was mirrored off of what we did in Louisiana, and now I've been working with Francis Collins, who ran the NIH for a long time, on democratizing this innovation across states in the U.S.”
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