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The Biden administration unveiled its FFY 2025 budget, which calls for $7.3 trillion in spending. In the proposed budget, Biden maintains his pledge to focus on expanding and transforming the nation’s mental health system. He...more
On Monday, March 11, President Joe Biden unveiled his fiscal year (FY) 2025 budget request, the fourth of his presidency. The $7.3 trillion proposal calls for approximately $1.9 trillion in discretionary spending, $4.4...more
On March 9, 2023, President Biden released his budget for Fiscal Year 2024. Similar to proposals in its last budget, the Administration’s new budget proposes a number of major tax increases, including the following:...more
Released on March 9, 2023, President Biden’s proposed fiscal year (FY) 2024 budget focuses on existing healthcare initiatives while attempting to lower healthcare costs with an emphasis on prescription drug prices, seeking to...more
President Biden’s proposed 2024 budget includes substantial additional amounts for continued funding of the implementation and enforcement of the No Surprises Act (NSA) and the transparency laws passed along with the NSA,...more
The Biden Administration’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2023 serves as a warning to all plan issuers and administrators that enforcement of the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) is a top priority for...more
Outlook for This Week in the Nation’s Capital Congress. The House and Senate are in recess this week. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) is trying to find a bipartisan deal on gun control ahead of the planned vote on the issue after...more
Below is Alston & Bird’s Health Care Week in Review, which provides a synopsis of the latest news in healthcare regulations, notices, and guidance; federal legislation and congressional committee action; reports, studies, and...more
The Senate is in session this week, and the House has a committee work period. The Senate plans to vote on nominee confirmations, on U.S. Postal Service reform legislation, and on the House-passed continuing resolution (CR)...more
The Big Picture - On November 19, the House of Representatives passed the Build Back Better Act (BBB) (H.R. 5376) by a vote of 220–213. The BBB contains a number of health and social policy priorities that are widely viewed...more
On February 10, 2020, the White House unveiled its proposed budget (the Budget) for FY 2021, which would decrease funding for HHS by 10 percent. Medicare and Medicaid would bear the brunt of these cuts. For both programs...more
Last Friday, President Trump signed into law two bipartisan legislative packages that included all twelve Fiscal Year 2020 funding bills. Comprehensive surprise billing and drug pricing legislation were not included in the...more
Last Friday night, President Trump signed into law a year-end $1.4 trillion spending bill that will fund the government through September 30, 2020. Included in the bill were a number of provisions that impact...more
On June 12, 2019, the Minister of Health tabled the final report, A Prescription for Canada: Achieving Pharmacare for All, from the Advisory Council on the Implementation of National Pharmacare (the Council) (see also: news...more
This week, Congress is in session for what should be the last week of the 115th Congress. That said, best not to count your chickens before they hatch. The spending fight that has been raging since the last continuing...more
At a time when Americans experience high anxiety and financial insecurity due to medical costs — with more than 20 percent of those with health insurance experiencing trouble paying for necessities, more than a quarter of...more
This week, Congress and the White House need to finalize a large spending bill to avoid a government shutdown. At this moment, all signs point to a deal being reached, as the President already signed H.R. 5895 into law,...more
Outlook for This Week in the Nation's Capital - Senate Floor. The Senate is schedule to finish its work this evening on the minibus appropriations bill, a three-bill spending package that includes Energy and Water...more
The Trump Administration on Feb. 12 released its Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 budget request, titled "An American Budget." Unlike last year's budget, which was released in late May, the release of this budget conforms to the typical...more
Following a brief shutdown of the federal government, on February 9, Congress passed and President Donald J. Trump signed into law the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 (Budget Act), which provides Congress until March 23 to...more
Congress moved one step closer to avoiding a government shutdown on Feb. 6, voting overwhelmingly (245-182) to pass a short-term, GOP-backed government funding bill (text; section-by-section) that would keep the federal...more
Overview - On Jan. 16, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee Chairman Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-N.J.) introduced a continuing resolution (CR), which would fund the federal government until Feb. 16. Congress has...more
With less than a day before the federal government's appropriated funding runs out, confidence in avoiding a potential shutdown is waning. Because of that, contractors should exercise prudence and immediately begin...more
On December 21, Congress passed a bill to continue funding the government through January 19, 2018, averting a potential government shutdown ahead of the December 22, 2017, deadline for the previous funding measure. The House...more
Busy January: Congress has left town with a long list of items that it will need to handle in January and throughout the first quarter of 2018. The continuing resolution that Congress just passed only funds the government...more