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SAMHSA's Weekly Financing News Pulse - February 20, 2009

Posted on April 15, 2009 15:50

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National Health Financing News
  • President Obama Signs HR 1, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Stimulus Bill) Into Law
  • Young Adult Behavioral Health Problems Costs $247 Billion Annually
  • $1 Trillion in Unfunded Health Care Benefits for Retirees
  • Health Advocates say Daschle’s Departure Has Stalled Health Reform
  • Stimulus Package Likely to Increase COBRA Enrollment, Burden Employers
  • Cigna and WellPoint Will Stop Using Database to Calculate Out-of-Network Payments and Contribute to Financing a New Database
  • California Insurers Charge Premiums Exceeding State Rates
  • Senator Grassley Says the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Should Reexamine Hospital Charity Care
  • National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) Expects Massive Job Loss from Insurance Mandate
  • Defense Centers of Excellence (DCoE) Outreach Center to Provide Help for Veterans and Families
  • United Auto Works (UAW) and Detroit Automakers Continue Negotiations Over Retiree Health Funding
  • Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) Study says Massachusetts Health Care Model is Ineffective, Urges Alternate Solution
  • New York Times Examines Criticism of Zagat Physician Ratings
  • Center For American Progress says Four Million Americans Lost Insurance
  • The Commonwealth Fund Issues Report on Comprehensive Health Care Reform
  • Kaiser Family Foundation Analyzes “Dual Eligibles”
Around the Hill: Hearings on Health Financing
  • Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee: Improving Care Through Innovation
    11:30 a.m. Feb. 17, Howard County Community College, Columbia, Md.
  • House and Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committees: Legislative Presentations of Veterans’ Service Organizations
    2 p.m. Feb. 24, 345 Cannon
    10 a.m. March 5, 106 Dirksen
    10 a.m. March 12, 106 Dirksen
    9:30 a.m. March 18, 334 Cannon
  • Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee: Integrative Health and Health Care Revision
    2 p.m. Fed. 23 430 Dirksen 
  • Senate Finance Committee: Scoring Health Care Reform: CBO’s Budget Options
    10 a.m. Feb. 25, 215 Dirksen
Around the States: State and Local Behavioral Health Financing News

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