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Rebecca Farley

Editor’s Note on This Week’s Special Budget Series

By Rebecca Farley, Director of Policy & Advocacy at the National Council and Managing Editor of MentalHealthcareReform.org Writing this week’s Public Policy Update was somewhat [...]

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Prevention Fund Once Again at Risk in Congressional Spending Negotiations

This week, the Affordable Care Act’s Public Health and Prevention Fund is once again on the chopping block as Congress looks for a way to [...]

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2013 Budget Moves Forward, but Stalemate Looms over Top-Line Spending Amounts

The 2013 budget advanced in both the House and Senate this month, as the Appropriations Committees approved annual spending measures for several agencies. But the [...]

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Social Services, Food Stamps, Health Reform on the Chopping Block as Congress Looks to Stop Sequester

In an effort to stop automatic spending cuts slated to take effect in January, six House committees are crafting plans to sharply reduce spending in [...]

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Webinar: What Providers Need to Know About Medicare and State Medicare Advantage Plans

Tuesday, April 24, 2012 1:30-2:30 pm EST Click to register now. The objectives of this SAMHSA Center for Financing Reform and Innovations (CFRI) sponsored webinar [...]

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Perspectives on the Supreme Court Proceedings on Health Reform

The Supreme Court this week held three days of hearings on four constitutional issues related to the 2010 Affordable Care Act. The hearings generated substantial [...]

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If the Coverage Mandate Falls, How Much of Health Reform Must Go With It?

The final installment in our series analyzing the Supreme Court case on the Affordable Care Act deals with the “severability” of the coverage mandate from [...]

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Lawyers Wrap Up Medicaid, Coverage Mandate Arguments on Day 3 of Supreme Court ACA Hearing

On the third and final day of oral arguments in the Affordable Care Act case, the Justices heard opponents’ and supporters’ arguments on two key [...]

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Day 2 of the Supreme Court ACA Hearings: Is the Coverage Mandate Constitutional?

Each day this week, the National Council brings you the latest news from the Supreme Court, which is hearing the historic case against the Affordable [...]

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Constitutionality of Health Law will Hinge on Court’s Interpretation of Interstate Commerce

The biggest decision facing the Supreme Court in its hearings on the health reform law is whether or not the law’s insurance coverage mandate is [...]

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