21st Century Cures Act

21st Century Cures Act
Other short titlesHelping Families in Mental Health Crisis Reform Act of 2016
Increasing Choice, Access, and Quality in Health Care for Americans Act
Long titleAn Act to accelerate the discovery, development, and delivery of 21st century cures, and for other purposes.
Enacted bythe 114th United States Congress
Citations
Public lawPub. L. 114–255 (text) (PDF)
Legislative history
  • Introduced in the House as H.R. 34 by Suzanne Bonamici (D–OR–1) on January 6, 2015
  • Committee consideration by House Science, Space, and Technology and Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation
  • Passed the House on January 7, 2015 (voice vote)
  • Passed the Senate on October 6, 2016 (unanimous consent) with amendment
  • House agreed to Senate amendment on November 30, 2016 (392–26) with further amendment
  • Senate agreed to House amendment on December 7, 2016 (94–5)
  • Signed into law by President Barack Obama on December 13, 2016

The 21st Century Cures Act is a United States law enacted by the 114th United States Congress in December 2016 and then signed into law on December 13, 2016. It authorized $6.3 billion in funding, mostly for the National Institutes of Health.[1] The act was supported especially by large pharmaceutical manufacturers and was opposed especially by some consumer organizations.[2]

The approval of drugs and devices would be streamlined, according to supporters, and treatments would reach the market more quickly. The argument made by opponents was that it would allow the marketing of riskier or less effective treatments by allowing the approval of drugs and devices on the basis of flimsier evidence, bypassing randomized, controlled trials.[3]

The bill incorporated the Helping Families In Mental Health Crisis Act, first introduced by then-Congressman Tim Murphy, R-Pa., which increased the availability of psychiatric hospital beds and established a new assistant secretary for mental health and substance use disorders.[4][5]

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  2. ^ Mukherjee, Sy (7 December 2016). "Everything You Need to Know About the Massive Health Reform Law That Just Passed Congress". Fortune. Retrieved 14 December 2016.
  3. ^ With media watchdogs on the sidelines, pharma-funded advocacy groups pushed Cures Act to the finish line. Trudy Lieberman, HealthNewsReview, December 6, 2016
  4. ^ Congress Is on the Verge of Passing a Landmark Mental Health Bill
  5. ^ "House Passes Most Significant Mental Health Reform Bill in Decades". NBC News. 17 July 2016. Archived from the original on 2022-12-25.
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