Health

Background

Background on Health

Latest News

HNR: Congress Continues Push to Suspend Harmful Medicaid Regulations (4/29/08)
HNR: Bill to Extend Moratoria on Medicaid Regulations Moves to Full Committee (4/14/08)
HNR: House Passes Mental Health Parity Bill (3/7/08)
HNR: SCHIP Extended Until 2009 (12/21/07)
HNR: Negotiations Continue to Secure Veto-Proof Majority on Children's Health Bill (11/13/07)
HNR: Déjà vu on Children's Health Bill (10/29/07)

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Policy Analyses and Research

NCLR: A Burden No Child Should Bear: How the Health Coverage System is Failing Latino Children (7/13/08)
Families USA: America's Health Care Crisis: Cities on the Front Lines (6/24/08)
EPI: A Decade of Decline: The Erosion of Employer-Provided Health Care in the United States and California, 1995-2006 (4/16/08)
Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured: Medicaid, SCHIP and Economic Downturn: Policy Challenges and Policy Responses (April 2008)
Alliance for Helath Reform: Health Care Coverage in America: Understanding the Issues and Proposed Solutions (March 2008)

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Government Resources

Status and text of H.R. 3010 the Fiscal 2006 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Act (signed into law 12/30/05)
Status and text of H.R. 4241 "Deficit Reduction Act" (The budget reconciliation bill approved by the House 11/18/05)
The Medicaid Commission Report to HHS Secretary Recommending $11 Billion in Cuts (9/1/05)
Congressional Research Service: Medicaid Eligibility for Adults and Children (8/3/05)
House Appropriations Committee: H. Rept. 109-143 Labor, HHS, Education Appropriations Bill for FY 2006 (6/21/05)

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