The Friends of NCHS Executive Committee praises appropriations leaders for their support of more timely, frequent, and relevant statistics to improve our country’s health and healthcare. We are especially grateful to Representative DeLauro, Senator Murray, Representative Cole, and Senator Blunt, as well as Representatives Castor, Fitzpatrick, and Brown for leading the dear colleague letter in support of NCHS. The $187.4 million in budget authority for NCHS in the FY23 Omnibus Appropriation Bill will help to modernize existing data collection systems, allow the agency to provide more timely and granular data, and reaffirm NCHS’s status as the world’s gold-standard producer of health statistics.
