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Updated on: August 25, 2010

Advocacy loses a pioneer: Gwill York Newman, 1932-2010

After her son was diagnosed with schizophrenia, Gwill Newman became a fierce advocate as well as donor for research about the brain. . . [Full Story]

Topics: advocacy, research, schizophrenia | Posted on: September 2, 2010 | Comments (0)

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Repealing Health Reform: For Heritage Action, It Would Be A 'Grand Slam'

Repeal of the health reform law is gaining traction among Republican lawmakers who have gathered 170 signatures. Leading the campaign is the Heritage Foundation, arguing that the majority of Americans have rejected health during the debate, and more so since it was signed, and is willing to wait until Republicans can effect a reversal. Kaiser Health News interviewed Michael Needham, CEO of Heritage Action for America. [Full Story]

Topics: Congress, health reform, insurannce, politics | Posted on: September 2, 2010 | Comments (0)

Fighting for last place: Florida, Texas, New Mexico

Recognition that there's a dearth of spending for mental health is entering politics this year as candidates on the Right and the Left begin to ask why state budgets are spending more on prisons than treatments. . . [Full Story]

Topics: budget impacts, Florida, mental health, New Mexico, reform, Texas | Posted on: September 1, 2010 | Comments (0)

House Approves State Aid Package, Including $16 Billion In Federal Medicaid Assistance

Kaiser Health News reports, "By a vote of 247 to 161, the House approved a $26 billion funding bill for states, which includes $16 billion to continue enhanced federal Medicaid funds due to expire at the end of the year as well as $10 billion in education funding. The measure will now be sent to the President for his signature." States will have $16 billion to help with Medicaid payments in 2011. . . [Full Story]

Topics: budget impacts, Medicaid | Posted on: August 10, 2010 | Comments (0)

Senate Gives Final Passage To State Aid Bill, House Summoned For Tuesday Vote

Senators voted Thursday to give $26 billion in aid to states and schools, $16 billion of which will be directed to Medicaid programs around the nation as the House prepares to return during its recess to cast votes on the legislation. Read the round-up of stories originally published in Kaiser Health News . . . [Full Story]

Topics: FMAP, health reform, Medicaid, poverty | Posted on: August 6, 2010 | Comments (0)

More needed to realize Americans for Disability Act

On the 20th anniversary of the Americans with Disability Act, the full impact of this anti-discrimination law, signed into law by Pres. George H.W. Bush, remains to be realized. . . [Full Story]