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The resolution promotes cardiovascular disease awareness—especially for women—to encourage prevention and possible long‑term cost savings, while imposing modest costs and risking some diversion of attention from other health priorities.
All Americans: Annual presidential proclamations and awareness campaigns could increase early detection and prevention of cardiovascular disease, potentially reducing deaths and serious illness.
Women: Emphasizing National Wear Red Day directs attention to cardiovascular disease in women, which may improve diagnosis, targeted prevention, and health outcomes for women.
Hospitals and public health agencies (and indirectly patients): Increased public awareness may prompt expanded screening and prevention programs that could lower long‑term healthcare costs associated with cardiovascular disease.
Patients with non‑cardiovascular conditions and other public health priorities: Focused attention and resources on cardiovascular awareness could draw limited attention or funds away from other health needs.
Taxpayers: Organizing proclamations and awareness campaigns may incur modest federal or organizational costs without guaranteed measurable health benefits.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requests the President to annually proclaim February as American Heart Month and highlights findings on CVD burden, disparities, costs, and prevention.
Introduced February 25, 2026 by Richard Joseph Durbin · Last progress February 25, 2026
Designates February as American Heart Month and asks the President to issue an annual proclamation recognizing the burden of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and encouraging public awareness and prevention. It lists findings on CVD deaths, costs, disparities, and the role of lifestyle changes and early detection in reducing risk. Encourages national awareness activities such as National Wear Red Day and highlights statistics on heart attacks, strokes, sudden cardiac arrest, heart valve disease, and CVD-related maternal deaths, but does not authorize new spending or create new programs.