Health Care

WASHINGTON, D.C – Today, Representatives Eric Swalwell (D-CA) and Tom Emmer (R-MN), co-chairs of the Personalized Medicine Caucus, introduced bipartisan legislation to better address drug-gene interactions to ensure that all Americans have access to the treatment that is best for them.

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Eric Swalwell (D-CA) voted to pass the Women's Health Protection Act, a bill that guarantees the right for patients to access abortion care and the right for providers to provide abortion services, free from medically unnecessary and dangerous restrictions.

WASHINGTON, DC - The American Rescue Plan could lower health care costs for tens of thousands of Californians living throughout the 15^th Congressional District, a new report commissioned by Congressman Eric Swalwell has found, including drastically reducing health care costs by an average of $6,900 for eligible East Bay individuals and families.

WASHINGTON, DC — Rep. Eric Swalwell (CA-15) today introduced two bills to better prepare the federal government to treat pandemics like COVID-19 as national security threats.

WASHINGTON, DC – Representatives Eric Swalwell (CA-15) and Bonnie Watson Coleman (NJ-12) today led 40 of their colleagues in asking Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra to issue guidance that federally-funded and federally-administered health insurers must cover all pregnancy and pregnancy-related services, including coverage of maternity care for dependents.

CASTRO VALLEY, CA — Today, Rep. Eric Swalwell (CA-15) announced he would bring Michelle Gutierrez-Vo, RN, a local CA-15 nurse, as his virtual guest to President Biden's joint address to Congress on Wednesday. Gutierrez-Vo lives in Union City with her family and works in the adult medicine clinic at Kaiser Permanente in Fremont.

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Rep. Eric Swalwell (CA-15) announced he will hold a Facebook Live Q&A on Thursday, May 28 with special guest Thomas J. Fitzgerald III, CHESP, Director at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System.

"I am glad to resume our Facebook Live Q&A series with Director Fitzgerald of the Palo Alto VA," said Swalwell. "This specialized conversation will focus on what resources are available for veterans in the Bay Area, and what testing and treatment options the VA currently offers."

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Rep. Eric Swalwell (CA-15) announced he will hold a Facebook Live Q&A on Thursday, May 7th with special guest Arelis Sandoval, a Public Health Nurse for the Alameda County Public Health Department.

This Facebook Live Q&A is the ninth thus far in the Congressman's weekly series of "live" events to help his constituents stay informed on the spread of the coronavirus, and its impact on our day-to-day lives.