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Metastatic Breast Cancer Access to Care Act

To amend title II of the Social Security Act to eliminate the waiting periods for disability insurance benefits and Medicare coverage for individuals with metastatic breast cancer, and for other purposes.

Introduced Mar 11, 2025

Latest action (Mar 11, 2025) Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

Referred to
Ways and Means Committee
Policy area
Social Welfare
Issues
Healthcare

Summary
  • Eliminates the waiting period for Social Security disability insurance benefits for individuals with metastatic breast cancer, allowing them to receive benefits immediately upon approval.
  • Waives the 24-month waiting period for Medicare coverage for individuals with metastatic breast cancer, allowing them to receive Medicare immediately upon receiving disability benefits.

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.

Sponsor (1)
262 cosponsors

Money behind the sponsor

Top reported contributors to Andrew R. Garbarino’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.

  • BLACKSTONE $20,867
  • Employer not reported $20,378
  • HJ KALIKOW CO LLC $16,600
  • NEXTERA ENERGY $15,500
  • MINDSET $11,100

Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for Andrew R. Garbarino → · Outside spending →

Actions (2)
  1. Mar 11, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. · house
  2. Mar 11, 2025 Introduced in House

Similar bills (6)

Bills with similar text or summary — includes reintroductions across Congresses. Ranked by semantic similarity of the bill text (computed locally); a neutral discovery aid, not a claim the bills are duplicates.

  • S 3442 — Metastatic Breast Cancer Access to Care Act · Introduced Dec 11, 2025 · Cong. 119 84%
  • HR 4543 — Medicaid Breast Cancer Access to Treatment Act · Introduced Jul 17, 2025 · Cong. 119 72%
  • HR 3037 — Access to Breast Cancer Diagnosis Act of 2025 · Introduced Apr 28, 2025 · Cong. 119 71%
  • HR 4299 — Protecting Patient Access to Cancer and Complex Therapies Act · Introduced Jul 7, 2025 · Cong. 119 68%
  • HR 4545 — Medicare Breast Reconstruction Access and Information Act · Introduced Jul 17, 2025 · Cong. 119 67%
  • S 1500 — Access to Breast Cancer Diagnosis Act of 2025 · Introduced Apr 28, 2025 · Cong. 119 66%

Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in House · Mar 11, 2025

Only one text version is on file, so there’s no earlier version to compare against yet.

Full text

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

March 11, 2025

Mr. Garbarino (for himself, Ms. Castor of Florida, Mr. Fitzpatrick, and Ms. Chu) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

A BILL

To amend title II of the Social Security Act to eliminate the waiting periods for disability insurance benefits and Medicare coverage for individuals with metastatic breast cancer, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the “Metastatic Breast Cancer Access to Care Act”.

SEC. 2. ELIMINATION OF WAITING PERIOD FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH METASTATIC BREAST CANCER.

(a) In General.—Section 223(a) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 423(a)) is amended—

(1) in paragraph (1), in the matter following subparagraph

(E), by inserting “or metastatic breast cancer” after “amyotrophic lateral sclerosis”; and

(2) in paragraph (2)(B), by inserting “or (iii)” after “clause (ii)”.

(b) Effective Date.—The amendments made by this section shall apply with respect to applications for disability insurance benefits filed after the date of the enactment of this Act.

SEC. 3. WAIVER OF 24-MONTH WAITING PERIOD FOR MEDICARE COVERAGE OF INDIVIDUALS WITH METASTATIC BREAST CANCER.

(a) In General.—Section 226(h) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 426(h)) is amended by inserting “or metastatic breast cancer” after “amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)”.

(b) Effective Date.—The amendments made by this section shall apply to benefits for months beginning after the date of the enactment of this Act. <all>

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