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2011 MassBudget: Massachusetts Still a Leader in Health Coverage (9/13/11) The Oregonian: Oregon Health Exchange must bargain to survive HNR: The FY 2012 Budget: House Republicans Take Steps To Drown Government in a Bathtub; The President has Other Priorities (4/19/11) The New Yorker: The Poverty Clinic (excerpt) (3/21/11) HNR: Republican Campaign to ‘Repeal and Replace’ Health Reform is Afoot (2/1/11) Groups Supporting the Affordable Care Act (1/19/11) HNR: Repeal of Health Reform Top Priority on Republican Agenda (1/14/11)
2010
HNR: Congress Returns to Lame-Duck Session Facing Full Plate of Unfinished Business (11/29/10) NCOA: Low Income Beneficiaries May Lose Help with Medicare Premiums (Posted 11/10/10) LCAO: Congress Must Pass Two Crucial Policies for Medicare Beneficiaries (11/5/10) EPI: Decline in Employer-Sponsored Health Coverage Accelerated Three Times as Fast in 2009 (9/16/10) EPI: A Lost Decade: Poverty and Income Trends Paint a Bleak Picture for Working Families (9/16/10) HNR: Congress Enacts Medicaid and Education Aid Urgently Needed by States (8/11/10) HNR: Pressure Mounts to Cut FY 2011 Domestic Appropriations; Senate Labor-HHS-Ed Bill Approved in Full Committee (8/11/10) HNR: House and Senate Set FY 2011 Spending Targets Lower Than President’s; Spending Tight, but Some Growth in House Labor-HHS Appropriations (7/26/10) HNR: Efforts to Provide Needed Relief to Unemployed and States Falling Short in the Senate (6/18/10) HNR: Congress Lets Unemployment Insurance Expire – Again And Blue Dogs Abandon Recession-Torn States (6/2/10) HNR: Clock is Running Down on Extending Unemployment Benefits (5/11/10) HNR: Health Care Reform Victory (3/29/10) Op-ed by Deborah Weinstein on the Huffington Post: Health Care Advocates: We Can't Let Up Now (3/22/10) HNR: Democrats Explore Strategies to Complete Health Care Reform (3/12/10) HNR: Health Reform Back on Center Stage (3/1/10) HNR: The Way Forward on Health Care Reform Remains Unclear (1/29/10) Op-ed by Deborah Weinstein on the Huffington Post: What I'll be Listening for Tonight (1/27/10) More than 500 national, state and local organizations sign letter to Congress to move forward with meaningful health reform (1/27/10)
2009
HNR: Democrats Certain of Senate Passage of Health Reform (12/23/09) HNR: Getting to 60 on Health Reform (12/11/09) First Focus: Over 600 Organizations Call on Congress to Protect Children's Health (12/9/09) CHN Urges Senators to Vote on the Motion to Proceed to Debate on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (11/20/09) HNR: Major Victory in House for Health Reform (11/13/09) CHN Urges House Members to Vote in Favor of the Affordable Health Care for America Act, H.R. 3962 (11/05/09) HNR: House Readies for Floor Debate on Health Care Bill (11/02/09) HNR: Senate Finance Committee Approves Health Bill (10/16/09) CHN Urges Senate Negotiators to Develop a Final Health Bill that Best Protects Low-Income and Vulnerable People (10/15/09) HNR: Senate Finance Committee Completes Mark-Up of Health Care Bill; Final Vote Still Pending (10/02/09) HNR: The Senate Finance Committee Takes Up Health Reform (9/23/09) CBPP: Statement of Robert Greenstein, Executive Director, on Chairman Baucus' Health Reform Plan (9/16/09) Families USA: Census Bureau Finds the Number of Uninsured Grew to 46.3 Million in 2008 (9/10/09) CCF: Number of Uninsured Children Drops to Lowest Level Since 1987, Outlook Bleaker for Parents and Other Adults (9/10/09) Op-ed by Ho Luong in Roll Call: A Wait We Can't Afford (9/10/09) LCCR Letter to Senator Baucus in Opposition to the 'Free Rider' Provision in the Senate Finance Committee's Health Care Proposal (9/8/09) First Focus: Poll: Health Care Reform Should Cover All Children, Address their Unique Health Needs Press Release (8/13/09) For copy of the poll click here. HNR: House Overcomes Some Hurdles on Health Reform Before the August Recess (8/12/09) First Focus: Over 150 Organizations Call for Strong Children's Policy in Health Reform (8/5/09) HNR: Health Reform Inches Along in Congress (7/23/09) Op-ed by Deepak Bhargava in the Huffington Post: Don't Enshrine Discrimination in Health Care Reform (7/8/09) HNR: Congress Unveils More Health Reform Proposals (7/1/09) HNR: Congress Readies to Debate Details of Health Reform (6/16/09) National organizations comment on the Senate Finance Committee's health care coverage options paper (5/22/09) CWLA comments on the Senate Finance Committee's proposals to expand coverage (5/22/09) HNR: Congress at Work on Health Reform (5/11/09) HNR: Critical Children’s Health Bill Enacted into Law (2/18/09) HNR: SCHIP Reauthorization on the Horizon (2/3/09) HNR: SCHIP on Track to Become Law (1/16/09)
2008
HNR: Major Victory on Mental Health (10/9/08) HNR: Premium Assistance for Low-Income Seniors Awaits President's Signature (10/9/08) HNR: Medicare Improvements Become Law (7/21/08) HNR: House Examines Medicare Advantage Program (6/29/07) HNR: Congress Continues Push to Suspend Harmful Medicaid Regulations (4/29/08) HNR: Most Expect Temporary Spending Bill Until the Next Administration (7/21/08) HNR: Appropriations Bills Hit a Snag (7/1/08) HNR: Budget Passes; Appropriations Process Begins (6/13/08) HNR: House-Senate Negotiators Agree on a Budget Deal; Last Minute Snag Delays Enactment (5/23/08) CHN letter on FY 2009 Budget Resolution Conference Agreement (5/20/08) 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)
2007
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) HNR: President’s Veto Threat Stands Between Millions of Low-Income Children and Health Insurance (10/1/07) HNR: Mental Health Parity Bill Moves in Congress (10/1/07) HNR: Congress on Brink of Expanding SCHIP (8/3/07) HNR: Senate Finance Committee Approves Renewal of Children's Health Program (7/23/07) HNR: New Children's Health Bill Introduced in Senate (05/04/07) HNR: Senate Unable to Lift Ban on Drug Negotiations (4/20/07) HNR: Changes to Minimum Wage Package on Vehicle with Uncertain Outcome (3/30/07) HNR: Support Builds for SCHIP (03/05/07)
2006
Lake Research Partners & Center for Children and Families: Election Survey Finds Broad Support for SCHIP (December 2006) HNR: State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) Shortfalls Delayed (12/19/06) HNR: Ryan White AIDS Program Reauthorized (12/19/06) Center for Children and Families: Leading Child Health Groups present key opportunities for SCHIP Reauthorization Press Release (12/12/06) HNR: HIV/AIDS Services Bill Passes The House (10/04/06) Voices: Testimony - CHIP at 10: A Decade of Covering Children (7/25/06) CBPP: Freezing SCHIP Funding in SCHIP Reauthorization Would Threaten Recent Gains in Health Coverage (6/23/06) HNR: Senate Rejects Enzi’s Attempt to Gut State Health Insurance Protections (5/19/06) HNR: Senate Poised To Gut State Health Insurance Consumer Protections (5/05/06) HNR: House Cuts $38.8 Billion from Budget; Slashes Health Care, Student Loans, Child Support and Help for People with Disabilities (2/3/06) HNR: State of the Union Address Foreshadows Fiscal 2007 Budget Proposals (2/3/06)
2005
NYTimes: Budget Accord Could Mean Payments by Medicaid Recipients (12/20/05) WashPost: GOP Leaders Agree to $41.6 Billion Spending Cut (12/19/05) HNR: House and Senate to Attempt Passing a Final Bill Cutting Aid to Poor (12/9/05) HNR: Labor-HHS-Education Bill Must Clear One Last Hurdle (12/9/05) NYTimes: Health Coverage of Young Widens with States' Aid (12/4/05) NYTimes: GOP Forces $50 Billion in Budget Cuts Through House (11/18/05) LA Times: States Trying to Address Needs of Uninsured (11/14/05) HNR: House Leadership Can't Dig Up Votes to Slash Medicaid, Child Support, Food Stamps, SSI, and Foster Care (11/11/05) New Standard: Hurricane Health Crisis Largely Unaddressed by Government Plans (11/4/05) HNR: Senate Approves Labor-HHS-Education Spending Bill (10/28/05) WashPost: Republicans Cut Student Aid; Foster Care; Child Support and Other Programs (10/26/05) NY Times: Federal Government Gives Florida Sweeping Right to Limist Medicaid (10/20/05) USAToday: Evacuee Benefits Differ by State (10/10/05) WashPost: House GOP Leaders Postpone Vote on Reductions in Spending (10/20/05) HNR: House and Senate Fail to Extend Help to Low-Income Medicaid and Medicare Recipients (10/14/05) HNR: Victims of Katrina Still Waiting for Medicaid Help (10/14/05) HNR: House Presses for Even Larger Cuts to Low-Income Services (10/14/05) HNR: Low-Income Programs Threatened with Across-the-Board Cuts (10/14/05) USAToday: Evacuee Benefits Differ by State (10/10/05) HNR: Conservatives Continue to Press for Cuts to Low-Income Services and New Tax Breaks for Wealthy (9/30/05) HNR: Hurricane Victims Needing Help Encounter Red Tape, Courtesy of White House, Congress (9/30/05) NYTimes Editorial: Health Care for Katrina Victims (10/4/05) WashPost Op-Ed: For Fast Federal Action on the Katrina Health Crisis (9/20/05) HNR: Washington Focuses on Aiding Gulf Coast Victims (9/16/05) HNR: Reconciliation Delayed: Congress Puts Off Cuts to Food Stamps and Medicaid (9/16/05) NYTimes Editorial: Congress Finesses the Storm (9/14/05) NYTimes Op-Ed: The Larger Shame (9/6/05) NYTimes Op-Ed: Curing Health Costs: Let the Sick Suffer (9/1/05) Boston Globe Editorial: Declining Health (8/31/05) NYTimes: U.S. Poverty Rate Was Up Last Year (8/31/05) WP: Poverty Rate Rises to 12.7 Percent (8/31/05) USAToday: Even the Insured Can Buckle Under Health Care Costs (8/31/05) WashPost: Critical Votes on Budget Cuts Loom for Republicans (8/28/05) Houston Chronicle: Cut Medicaid? What Then? The Answer (8/24/05) NY Times: Doctors Argue Against Higher Co-Payments for Medicaid (8/18/05) WashPost: South Carolina Proposing to Redefine Medicaid (8/16/05) USAToday: Workers Swelling Rolls of Medicaid (8/2/05) Washington Post Editorial: Premiums for the Poor (8/1/05) HNR: Expanding Health Coverage for Children with Disabilities Still a Possibility in Senate (7/22/05) HNR: Senate Committee Agrees to Labor-HHS-Education Spending Bill (7/22/05) HNR: Advocates Propose Medicaid Savings to Avoid Harming Low-Income People (7/22/05) Families USA: Medicaid Birthday Flash e-card (7/26/05) WP Op-Ed: In Defense of Success: Government Really Can Lessen Poverty (7/19/05) NYTimes: Officials' Pitch for Drug Plan Meets Skeptics (7/17/05) HNR: House Approves Labor-HHS-Education Spending Bill (7/1/05) Washington Post: Health Care Costs, Spending Up - More in Middle Class Could Join Uninsured (6/21/05) HNR: Bill Funding Departments of Labor, HHS, and Education Moves in House (6/17/05) NY Times Op-Ed: One Nation, Uninsured (6/13/05) LA Times: Democrats Refuse Seats on Medicaid Commission (5/27/05) USAToday: Families, Medical Leave Act at Center of Hot Debate (5/25/05) HNR: Reconciliation Instructions Put Human Needs Programs at Risk (5/20/05) HNR: C ongress Ponders Multiple Tax Cuts (5/20/05) HNR: Administration-Appointed Commission to Draw Plans for Cutting $10 Billion From Medicaid (5/20/05) NYTimes: Payments to Help Hospitals Care for Illegal Immigrants (5/10/05) NY Times: Under New Medicare Drug Plan, Food Stamps May Be Reduced (5/8/05) NYTimes: States Propose Sweeping Changes to Cut Medicaid by Billions (5/9/05) HNR: Congress Approves a Final Budget Resolution (4/29/05) HNR: Budget Conference Committee to Contemplate Deep Cuts to Human Needs Programs (4/15/05) HNR: FY 2006 Budget Resolutions Clear House, Senate Floor (4/1/05) HNR: House and Senate Committees Pass Budget Resolutions for FY 2006 (3/11/05) WP: Governors Urged to Make Deal on Medicaid (2/28/05) HNR: Deep Cuts in the President's Budget; Committees Ready to Act (2/25/05) NYTimes: Model in Utah May Be Future for Medicaid (2/24/05) HNR: What to Expect in the President's Budget - Human Needs Cuts (2/4/05) NYTimes: Health Secretary Calls for Medicaid Changes (2/2/05) WP: HHS Secretary Suggests Major Changes to Medicaid (2/2/05) Tennessean: Bredesen Says He Won't Let Children Lose TennCare (1/27/05) WP: Leavitt Won't Rule out Medicaid Budget Cuts (1/20/05) NYT: Tennessee to Restrict Medicaid Payments (1/11/05)
2004
WP: Mental Illness Sends Many to Foster Care (11/30/04) HNR: White House, Congress Fail to Save $1.1 Billion in Expiring SCHIP Funds (11/24/04) HNR: Congress Passes Massive Spending Bill (11/24/04) NYTimes: Spending Bill Makes a Winner of Mars Program; But Many Losers Elsewhere (11/23/04) WP Editorial: Children Left Behind (11/19/04) Tennessean: Bredesen Says He May End TennCare (11/5/04) HNR: Children's Health Insurance Funds Expiring (10/1/04) HNR: Human Needs Legislation Stuck in Gridlock (9/17/04) HNR: Congress Unlikely to Complete Appropriations Before Adjournment (9/17/04) WP Editorial: Poverty and Health (8/31/04) KFF: Enrollment in SCHIP Drops For First Time in Six Year History of Program (7/26/04) HNR: House Committee Approves Bill Funding Departments of Labor, HHS and Education (7/16/04) HNR: Debate Over Financing Stalls Family Opportunity Act (7/2/04)
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