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Jul

Prevent Blindness Expresses Profound Concern Over Impact of Medicaid “Community Engagement” and Eligibility Requirements on People with Progressive Vision Loss and Low Vision

In a response letter to an Interim Final Rule (IFR) issued on June 1 by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Prevent Blindness...

Jul

Prevent Blindness Honors Bipartisan Leadership of Congressional Vision Caucus Co-Chairs, U.S. Representatives Gus Bilirakis and Marc Veasey, with Congressional Visionary Award

Prevent Blindness presents U.S. Representatives Gus Bilirakis (R-FL), and Marc Veasey (D-TX) with “Congressional Visionary Award” for their efforts to prioritize vision and eye health...

Sep

Prevent Blindness Analysis of the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (H.R.1, or OBBBA) and its Impact on Eye Health

In July, President Trump signed the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (OBBBA) into law. The package includes the largest cuts in federal spending to the...

Sep

Prevent Blindness Kicks Off Annual World Sight Day Activities

Prevent Blindness participates in global “World Sight Day” initiative with a variety of eye health events and programs offered free to the public Prevent Blindness...

Sep

House FY 2026 Legislation Cuts Vision and Eye Health by $2 million

The House Appropriations Committee has approved legislation that includes a $2 million cut to the Vision Health Initiative (VHI) at the Centers for Disease Control...

Aug

Prevent Blindness Responds to Proposed Cuts to Vision and Eye Health Surveillance and Programming at the CDC

Yesterday (07/31/25), the Senate Appropriations Committee voted 26-3 to advance legislation that includes a cut to vision and eye health programs for Fiscal Year 2026....

Jun

Prevent Blindness Statement on House-Passed Legislation to Cut Medicaid Program

Prevent Blindness expresses our deep concern and disappointment with the passage of legislation to cut spending from the Medicaid program and eliminate access to health...

May

Prevent Blindness Applauds Reintroduction of Early Detection of Vision Impairments for Children Act

Prevent Blindness urges Congress to pass bipartisan legislation, the “Early Detection of Vision Impairments for Children Act,” designed to improve eye care access and health...

Apr

Prevent Blindness and International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness Urge Continued Funding for Global Eye Health Programs

Through letters recently submitted to Congressional leadership in both the House and the Senate, and copied to Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Dorothy Camille...

Apr

Prevent Blindness Urges West Virginia State House to Reject Bill That Would Imperil Children’s Vision

Prevent Blindness strongly calls on the West Virginia State House to reject HB 3444. If enacted, this legislation would remove the mandate that all newborns...

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