Health - Human Needs Report Archives
2010
Congress Enacts Medicaid and Education Aid Urgently Needed by States (8/11/10) Pressure Mounts to Cut FY 2011 Domestic Appropriations; Senate Labor-HHS-Ed Bill Approved in Full Committee (8/11/10) 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) Efforts to Provide Needed Relief to Unemployed and States Falling Short in the Senate (6/18/10) Congress Lets Unemployment Insurance Expire - Again And Blue Dogs Abandon Recession-Torn States (6/2/10) Clock is Running Down on Extending Unemployment Benefits (5/11/10) Health Care Reform Victory (3/29/10) Democrats Explore Strategies to Complete Health Care Reform (3/12/10) Health Reform Back on Center Stage (3/1/10) The Way Forward on Health Care Reform Remains Unclear (1/29/10)
2009
Democrats Certain of Senate Passage of Health Reform (12/23/09) Getting to 60 on Health Reform (12/11/09) Major Victory in House for Health Reform (11/13/09) House Readies for Floor Debate on Health Care Bill (11/02/09) Senate Finance Committee Approves Health Bill (10/16/09) Senate Finance Committee Completes Mark-Up of Health Care Bill; Final Vote Still Pending (10/02/09) The Senate Finance Committee Takes Up Health Reform (9/23/09) House Overcomes Some Hurdles on Health Reform Before the August Recess (8/12/09) Health Reform Inches Along in Congress (7/23/09) Congress Unveils More Health Reform Proposals (7/1/09) Congress Readies to Debate Details of Health Reform (6/16/09) Congress at Work on Health Reform (5/11/09) Critical Children’s Health Bill Enacted into Law (2/18/09) SCHIP Reauthorization on the Horizon (2/3/09) SCHIP on Track to Become Law (1/16/09)
2008
Major Victory on Mental Health (10/9/08) Premium Assistance for Low-Income Seniors Awaits President's Signature (10/9/08) 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)
