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Federal Budget

Trio of Fiscal Issues to Converge at End of Year; Debt Limit Questions Resurface

Political observers in Washington this week felt a sense of déjà vu in the wake of comments by House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) about the [...]

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House Votes to Replace 2013 Automatic Cuts with $315B in Spending Reductions

Today, the House approved legislation that would cut $315 billion from social programs in 2013. The legislation is House Republicans’ response to the $72 billion [...]

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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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Political Undercurrents Raise Big Questions for 2013 Budget

Congress has begun deliberating the 2013 budget. But, like much in Washington, it will not be a simple debate. This year’s appropriations process is complicated [...]

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President Obama Releases His 2013 Budget Requests; National Council Issues Budget Analysis

On February 13, 2012, President Obama released his Administration’s budget requests for Fiscal Year 2013. The budget in many ways reflects the nation’s growing concern [...]

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Five Health Policy Battles and Trends to Watch in 2012

1. Medicare Physician Pay Fix: In the last hours of its 2011 session, Congress enacted a short-term deal that postponed for two months a scheduled [...]

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Five Major Health Policy Successes of 2011

Despite what seemed like constant threats to Medicaid and behavioral health funding over the last year, our field was able to fend off the worst [...]

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