Congressman David Scott strongly supports major investments in disease awareness and prevention, especially in our nation’s most marginalized communities. He has fought to lower the price of insulin to $35 per month, provide the authority for Medicare to negotiate drug prices, and for expanding Medicaid and ACA coverage to millions of Americans. Rep. David Scott believes that equipping healthcare providers with the necessary knowledge and resources to successfully aid patients is key to ensuring America’s health security.
Protecting Marginalized Communities
Rep. David Scott authored the Protect Lifesaving Anesthesia Care for Veterans Act, which prohibits the VA from removing expert physician anesthesiologists from the team-based model of care during complicated surgical procedures. This is the same model offered at Emory, Johns Hopkins, and our nation's top medical facilities because it is safe and proven to work.
To protect women’s right to reproductive freedom Rep. David Scott cosponsored the Women’s Health Protection Act and the Ensuring Women’s Right to Reproductive Freedom Act.
Rep. David Scott cosponsored the Black Maternal Momnibus Act, which would direct multiple agencies to improve maternal health, with a particular focus on racial and ethnic minority group, veterans, and other vulnerable populations.
In 2024, he sent a letter the GA Department of Corrections urging the prioritization of human rights, dignity, and to improve the quality of care for incarcerated individuals.
Rep. David Scott submitted a Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 funding request for $103 million for the CDC's Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) to preserve our nation's leading initiative to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in health outcomes.
Medicare and Medicaid
To allow CMS to cover early detection screening tests Rep. Scott cosponsored the Nancy Gardner Sewell Medicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Coverage Act.
Rep. David Scott supports expanding Medicare benefits through the Medicare Dental, Vision, and Hearing Benefit Act, which would provide expanded coverage of dental, vision, and hearing care for millions of Americans.
Allowing local governments to expand Medicaid when their states have no is a necessity to ensuring quality care for millions of Americans. That is why he cosponsored the Cover Outstanding Vulnerable Expansion-eligible Residents Now Act.
Addressing Diseases
Due to the increasing concern of gun violence, Rep. David Scott cosponsored a resolution Declaring gun violence a public health crisis. He is also fighting to prevent the CDC and National Institutes of Health (NIH) Gun Violence Research program from being eliminated under President Trump
Rep. David Scott requested an increased FY 2026 funding level to $55 billion for NIH. NIH research plays a key role in domestic job creation, economic growth, and bettering millions of American lives.
To combat women's health disparities, Rep. Davis Scott authored several resolutions Supporting the designation of March as "Endometriosis Awareness Month", recognizing the month of September as "PCOS Awareness Month",and for creating a "Uterine Fibroids Awareness Month". These measures call for expanding education, research, and awareness, but more importantly, they call for increased federal funding to find cures and new treatments.
Rep. David Scott requested the Colorectal Research Cancer Control Program (CRCCP) be provided with $51 million in FY 2026. Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death among men and women combined in the United States.
Family and Children’s Health Care
Rep. David Scott cosponsored the Innovative Maternal Payment and Coverage (IMPACT) to Save Moms Act, which will develop innovative strategies to improve maternal health outcomes for minority women, including presumptive eligibility for Medicaid, automatic reenrollment in Medicaid, and measures to prevent any disruptions in coverage from pregnancy to one year postpartum.
In 2024, he cosponsored the Healthy Meals Help Kids Learn Act, which would help schools provide students with quality, nutritious meals by increasing the federal reimbursement level for all free, reduced-price, and paid-rate school meals.
Similarly, Rep. David Scott supports the Whole Milk Healthy Kids Act, to allow schools to continue offering students whole milk in addition to other options.
Rep. David Scott requested a FY 2026 funding level of $7 million for the Children’s Hospitals Graduate Medical Education (CHGME) Program. The CHGME programs train 60 percent of pediatric specialist residents in the nation.
Healthcare Professionals
To address the shortage of healthcare professionals Rep. David Scott cosponsored the Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act, which would increase the number of residency positions eligible for graduate medical education payments.
He is also a cosponsor of the Physical Therapist Workforce and Patient Access Act, which would include physical therapists in the National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program and expand patient access to physical therapists.
In March 2024, Rep. David Scott cosponsored Prevent Interruptions in Physical Therapy Act, which would allow patients to receive treatment from another physical therapist in instances were the primary physical therapist will be temporarily unavailable.
