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Health Issues HCR

Issues relating to health disparities, health care reform, childhood cancer, quality of life and palliative care, federal health care programs, genetic information, cancer, nutrition, and wellness, including the following legislation to be reintroduced from the 112th Congress: H.R.1851 and S.881, the Family Act; the as-yet not introduced Health Equity and Accountability Act; and H.R.1666, the Patient Centered Quality Care For Life Act. Also, H.R.1339 & S.641, the Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act;S.621 and H.R.2607 and S.1251, the Caroline Pryce Walker Conquer Childhood Cancer Act; H.R.2058 & S.1247 the Childhood Cancer Survivors Quality of Life Act; H.R.2019, the Kids First Research Act; and H.R.460, the Patients' Access to Treatments Act.

Contacted: State, Dept of (DOS); White House Office; Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); SENATE; Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC); Labor, Dept of (DOL); Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); U.S. Trade Representative (USTR); Natl Institutes of Health (NIH); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Food & Drug Administration (FDA); U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)

Bills named: H.R. 1339 (113th), H.R. 1851 (113th), H.R. 2019 (113th), S. 881 (113th), S. 641 (113th), H.R. 2058 (113th), S. 621 (113th), H.R. 1666 (113th), H.R. 2607 (113th), S. 1251 (113th), H.R. 460 (113th), S. 1247 (113th)

Medicare/Medicaid MMM

Issues relating to implementation of changes to Medicare and Medicaid, pursuant to P.L. 111-148, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, and tobacco cessation programs within Medicaid. Issues relating to inclusion of palliative care as a bundled service within CMS "value-based purchasing", general deficit reduction issues impacting Medicare & Medicaid, and H.R.1070, Removing Barriers to Colorectal Cancer Screening Act of 2013.

Contacted: Food & Drug Administration (FDA); White House Office; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID); State, Dept of (DOS); Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); U.S. Trade Representative (USTR); Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); Natl Institutes of Health (NIH); SENATE; Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC); Labor, Dept of (DOL)

Bills named: H.R. 1070 (113th)

Budget/Appropriations BUD

Federal budget and appropriations for cancer research and programs, including federal appropriations for NIH, NCI, CDC, FDA; the Prevention & Public Health Fund; the Affordable Care Act provisions; programs for breast and cervical cancer, colorectal cancer, tobacco regulation and cessation, patient navigators, patient quality of life, and international health. The President's FY14 Budget; and S.1284, the FY14 Labor, Health & Human Resources Appropriations Act, and matters relating to the impact of the government-widesequester as it affects CDC, NIH, NCI, Prevention & Public Health Fund, and other appropriated accounts relating to cancer.

Contacted: White House Office; U.S. Trade Representative (USTR); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Food & Drug Administration (FDA); SENATE; Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); State, Dept of (DOS); Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC); Labor, Dept of (DOL); Natl Institutes of Health (NIH); Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)

Bills named: S. 1284 (113th)

Tobacco TOB

Issues relating to smoking cessation, tobacco sales to minors, tobacco taxes, product regulation, and smokefree environments, including: (1) implementation of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (P.L. 111-31): (2) cessation and prevention programs authorized as part of P.L. 111-148, the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act of 2010; (3) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). S.39, Healthy Lifestyles and Prevention America Act, H.R.792 & S.772, cigar exemptionfrom FDA regulations; S.194, Tobacco Tax Equity Act and tobacco tax proposals contained in the President's FY14 Budget. Issues relating to tobacco and trade, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership and Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.

Contacted: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); White House Office; U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID); Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); Food & Drug Administration (FDA); Labor, Dept of (DOL); Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC); Natl Institutes of Health (NIH); U.S. Trade Representative (USTR); State, Dept of (DOS); SENATE

Bills named: S. 194 (113th), S. 39 (113th), H.R. 792 (113th), S. 772 (113th)

Taxation/Internal Revenue Code TAX

Issues relating to the tax treatment of nonprofits, deductability of charitable donations, including governance of nonprofit organizations. Includes taxpayer deductibility and tobacco tax provisions in the President's FY14 Budget.

Contacted: U.S. Trade Representative (USTR); SENATE; Food & Drug Administration (FDA); Labor, Dept of (DOL); White House Office; Natl Institutes of Health (NIH); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID); State, Dept of (DOS); Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC); Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)