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2008 Election Outcomes and Legislative Impact
Powers Pyles Sutter &Verville, PC has produced a memorandum which reviews the 2008 Presidential and Congressional elections and provides analysis of the future direction of White House policy and the ramifications for the near-term political makeup of the House and Senate and relevant congressional committees.
Continue reading...Congressional Brain Injury Task Force Urges TRICARE to Cover Cognitive Rehabilitation
Monday, September 22, 2008
This week, the Co-Chairs of the Congressional Brain Injury Task Force, Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-NJ) and Rep. Todd Platts (R-PA) sent a letter, signed by over 60 House members from both parties, to Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates urging TRICARE coverage of cognitive rehabilitation.
Continue reading...House Committees Approve ADA Amendments Act of 2008
Friday, June 20, 2008
Congress also made progress on a major disability rights bill, as both the House Education and Labor Committee and the House Judiciary Committee marked up and approved the ADA Amendments Act of 2008 (H.R. 3195). This measure is designed to counter the last decade of Supreme and lower court decisions which have excluded large [...]
Continue reading...House VA Committee Approves Bill to Create VA Epilepsy Centers
Monday, June 16, 2008
Also on Wednesday, the House Committee on Veterans Affairs approved H.R. 2818, legislation endorsed by BIAA which would establish Epilepsy Centers of Excellence within the VA. Last week, the Senate passed its version of the legislation as part of a package of veterans’ mental health bills.
Continue reading...Symposium on Deep Brain Stimulation Held in Washington, D.C.
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Symposium on Deep Brain Stimulation Held in Washington, D.C. On Tuesday, BIAA Government Affairs Associate Robert Demichelis attended “Brain Pacemakers: A Promising Approach and a New Era of Hope for Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders,” a symposium on deep brain stimulation sponsored by The Office on Disability, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and [...]
Continue reading...Medicare Competitive Bidding Program Under Congressional Scrutiny
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Medicare Competitive Bidding Program Under Congressional Scrutiny On Tuesday, the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health held a hearing on the issue of competitive bidding of durable medical equipment (DME) under the Medicare Fee-For-Service program. As a member of the Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities (CCD), as well as the Independence Through Enhancement of [...]
Continue reading...House and Senate Budget Committees Approve Fiscal 2009 Budget Resolutions
Monday, March 10, 2008
The House and Senate Budget Committees both passed fiscal 2009 budget resolutions this week which would provide significant increases for health discretionary programs.
Continue reading...BIAA Submits Questions and Comments to Congressional Committees
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Also this week, both chambers of Congress held important hearings on efforts to improve health care for returning service members, as well as to improve the veterans’ disability benefits system. BIAA submitted questions and comments in relation to several of the hearings. The Senate Armed Services Committee held a hearing on “Care for Sick and [...]
Continue reading...BIAA Signs on To Budget and Appropriations Letters
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education (Labor-HHS-Ed) held a hearing on Thursday on this year’s proposed budget for the Department of Health and Human Services, featuring HHS Secretary Michael Leavitt as a witness. At the same time, BIAA signed on this week to a coalition letter to the [...]
Continue reading...Caring for Veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan Will Cost $662 Billion Over 40 Years
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
According to Linda J. Bilmes, a former chief financial officer and assistant secretary of the US Commerce Department, it will cost $662 billion over the next 40 years to care for returned veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan. Bilmes, who now lectures on public policy at the John F Kennedy School of Government, accuses the Bush administration [...]
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