Health - Human Needs Report Archives
2008
Congress Continues Push to Suspend Harmful Medicaid Regulations (4/29/08) Bill to Extend Moratoria on Medicaid Regulations Moves to Full Committee (4/14/08) House Passes Mental Health Parity Bill (3/7/08)
2007
SCHIP Extended Until 2009 (12/21/07) Negotiations Continue to Secure Veto-Proof Majority on Children's Health Bill (11/13/07) Déjà vu on Children's Health Bill (10/29/07) President's Veto Threat Stands Between Millions of Low-Income Children and Health Insurance (10/1/07) Mental Health Parity Bill Moves in Congress (10/1/07) Congress on Brink of Expanding SCHIP (8/3/07) Senate Finance Committee Approves Renewal of Children's Health Program (7/23/07) New Children's Health Bill Introduced in Senate (05/04/07) Support Builds for SCHIP (03/05/07)
2006
Senate Unable to Lift Ban on Drug Negotiations (4/20/07) Ryan White AIDS Program Reauthorized (12/19/06) State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) Shortfalls Delayed (12/19/06) HIV/AIDS Services Bill Passes The House (10/04/06) Senate Rejects Enzi’s Attempt to Gut State Health Insurance Protections(5/19/06) Senate Poised To Gut State Health Insurance Consumer Protections (5/05/06) GOP Senate Budget Resolution Squeaks Through, 51-49; Floor Action Rejects Some of the Cuts in Human Needs Services (3/17/06) House Cuts $38.8 Billion from Budget; Slashes Health Care, Student Loans, Child Support and Help for People with Disabilities (2/3/06) Senate HELP Committee Approves Bill That Would Seriously Weaken Health Insurance Consumer Protections (3/17/06)
2005
Labor-HHS-Education Bill Must Clear One Last Hurdle (12/9/05) House and Senate to Attempt Passing a Final Bill Cutting Aid to Poor (12/9/05) Congress Enacts Legislation to Extend Medicare Premium Subsidies and Transitional Medicaid (10/28/05) Senate Approves Labor-HHS-Education Spending Bill (10/28/05) House Committees Slash Medicaid, Child Support, SSI and Foster Care; Reduce Planned Increases for Child Care (10/28/05) Senate Budget Committee Approves Nearly $40 Billion in Cuts to Entitlement Programs (10/28/05) House and Senate Fail to Extend Help to Low-Income Medicaid and Medicare Recipients (10/14/05) Victims of Katrina Still Waiting for Medicaid Help (10/14/05) House Presses for Even Larger Cuts to Low-Income Services (10/14/05) Conservatives Continue to Press for Cuts to Low-Income Services and New Tax Breaks for the Wealthy (9/30/05) Hurricane Victims Needing Help Encounter Red Tape, Courtesy of Congress, White House (9/30/05) Washington Focuses on Aiding Gulf Coast Families (9/16/05) Reconciliation Delayed: Congress Puts Off Cuts to Medicaid and Food Stamps in Wake of Katrina (9/16/05) Expanding Health Coverage for Children with Disabilities Still a Possibility in Senate (7/22/05) Senate Committee Agrees to Labor-HHS-Education Spending Bill (7/22/05) Advocates Propose Medicaid Savings to Avoid Harming Low-Income People (7/22/05) House Approves Labor-HHS-Education Spending Bill (7/1/05) Bill Funding Departments of Labor, HHS, and Education Moves in House (6/17/05) Administration-Appointed Commission to Draw Plans for Cutting $10 Billion From Medicaid (5/20/05) Congress Ponders Multiple Tax Cuts (5/20/05) Reconciliation Instructions Put Human Needs Programs at Risk (5/20/05) Congress Approves a Final Budget Resolution (4/29/05) FY 2006 Budget Resolutions Clear House, Senate Floor (4/1/05) House and Senate Budget Committees Pass Budget Resolutions for FY 2006 (3/11/05) Deep Cuts in President's Budget; Committees Ready to Act (2/25/05) What to Expect in the President's Budget (2/4/05)
2004
White House, Congress Fail to Save Expiring SCHIP Funds (11/24/04) Congress Passes Massive Spending Bill (11/24/04) Children's Health Insurance Funds Expiring (10/1/04) Debate Over Financing Stalls Family Opportunity Act (7/2/04) Senate Passes Bill to Help Families With Disabled Children Receive Medicaid (5/7/04) CHN Releases Analysis of President's Budget (3/4/04)
2003
Medicare Conferees Continue to Crawl Towards Agreement (10/24/03) More Americans Living in Poverty (9/26/03) Appropriations Update (9/12/03) Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Bill Passes The House (7/18/03) Medicare Overhaul Continues In Congress (6/23/03) Senate Unveils Medicare Drug Plan (6/6/03) Bush Delivers State of the Union Address (1/31/03)
2002
Community Health Centers Reauthorized by House and Senate (10/25/02) Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Fails in Senate (8/2/02) Congress Approves Trade Legislation (8/2/02) Senate Committee Approves Labor-HHS-Education Bill (7/19/02) Parties Offer Competing Medicare Prescription Drug Plans (6/21/02) Senate Passes Health Provisions in Trade Bill (5/24/02) Senators Agree to Include Health Provisions in Trade Bill (5/10/02) Senate to Take Up Trade Package With Health Care Provision (4/26/02)
