SAMHSA's Weekly Financing News Pulse - June 15, 2009

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National Health Financing News

• Senate HELP Committee and House Democrats Release Health Care Reform Plans; Other Lawmakers Debate Health Reform
• Taxing Health Benefits May Streamline Health Care
• Frieden Takes Over as Director of the CDC
• Legislators Propose Medicare Reimbursement Changes
• Legislators Introduce Bills to Increase Returning Soldiers’ Access to Mental Health Care
• HHS Report Highlights Health Disparities, Focuses on Low-Income Americans and Minorities
• Legislature Approves Bill Allowing FDA to Regulate Tobacco Products
• Legislators Urge DOL to Extend Federal Wage and Hour Laws to Health Care Workers
• VA to Allow Researchers Access to Data From Medical Records
• Study Finds Small Business May Benefit From an Employer Health Insurance Mandate
• Drug Price Cases to Reduce Wholesale Prices for Many Drugs
• FTC Report Says 12 to 14 Years is Too Much Protection for Biotech Drugs
• AHA Specialist Says 9 in 10 Hospitals Have Made Cutbacks
• Urban Institute Report Analyzes the Prospects of Equity in Capping a Potential Tax-Exclusion for Employer-Sponsored Health Care
• Health Affairs Publishes Six Papers on the Nursing Workforce, Find Nursing Shortage Reduced
• KFF Analyzes Changes in Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage Since 2006
• Survey Finds Disease Prevention is Top Priority for Health Reform
• Q1Medicare Provides Analysis of Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Standard Benefit Parameters, 2006-2010

Around the Hill: Hearings on Health Financing

• House Veterans’ Affairs Subcommittee on Health: VA’s Health Infrastructure
  10:00 a.m. June 9, 334 Cannon 
• Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies: Fiscal 2010 Appropriations: Labor, HHS, Education
  2:30 p.m. June 9, 124 Dirksen
• House Education and Labor Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions: Single Payer Health Care Option
  10:30 a.m. June 10, 2175 Rayburn
• Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee: HELP Nominations Vote
  June 10, TBA, TBA
• House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health: Biologic Drug Competition
  10:00 a.m. June 11, 2123 Rayburn
• Senate Indian Affairs Committee: Indian Health Care
  2:15 p.m. June 11, 628 Dirksen
• House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health: Medical Devices: Are Current Regulations Doing Enough for Patients?
  9:30 a.m. June 18, 2322 Rayburn

Around the States: State and Local Behavioral Health Financing News

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