SAMHSA's Weekly Financing News Pulse - June 22, 2009

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National Health Financing News

• CBO Releases Health Reform Cost Estimates, Senate Plans Delayed; House Leaders Offer Outlines
• Ex-Legislators Release Health Care Reform Proposal
• President Obama Announces Plans to Cut More from Medicare and Medicaid
• Senators Introduce Bill to Improve Medicare Transitional Care
• Survey Finds Health Care Entities Believe Pay-For-Performance Will Improve Outcomes and Increase Cost
• State Budget Cuts Affect Children’s Health Care
• Urban Institute Brief Examines Potential Effects of Health Care Reform on Children Enrolled in Medicaid and SCHIP
• Insurers Refuse to Stop Cancelling Policies for Certain Sick Enrollees
• GE Offers Interest Free Loans to Purchase its EHR System
• VA Expands Coverage to Veterans in Priority 8
• Mathematica Examines AHRQ’s National Health Plan Collaborate
• UC-Berkeley Researchers Issue Reports Calling for Employer-Based Health Reform
• Poll Finds Americans Want Substance Abuse Treatment Included In Health Care Reform
• Polls Find Stable Support For Health Reform, Attitudes Still Movable
• PricewaterhouseCoopers Report Says Health Care Costs to Rise in 2010
• More Medical Schools Improve Conflict of Interest Policies

Around the Hill: Hearings on Health Financing

• House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations: Terminations of Individual Health Policies
  10:00 a.m. June 16, 2123 Rayburn
• Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee: Health Care Overhaul
  2:30 p.m. June 16, 325 Russell
• House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health: Medical Devices: Are Current Regulations Doing Enough for Patients?
  9:30 a.m. June 18, 2322 Rayburn
• House Veterans’ Affairs Subcommittee on Health: Veterans’ Health Bills
  10:00 a.m. June 18, 334 Cannon
• House Veterans’ Affairs Subcommittee on Health: VA Claim Backlog
  2:00 p.m. June 18, 334 Cannon
• House Budget Committee: Statutory PAYGO
  10:30 a.m. June 18, 210 Cannon
• House Budget Committee: Economic Case for Health Overhaul
  10:00 a.m. June 19, 210 Cannon
• Senate Finance Committee: Health Care Overhaul
  TBA June 23, 213 Dirksen
• House Natural Resources Committee: Indian Health Care Improvement Act
  10:00 a.m. June 25, 1324 Longworth

Around the States: State and Local Behavioral Health Financing News

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