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H.R.36 - Health Care Safety Net Enhancement Act of 2013
H.R.235 - Veteran Emergency Medical Technician Support Act of 2013
H.R.351 - Protecting Seniors' Access to Medicare Act of 2013
H.R.574 - Medicare Physician Payment Innovation Act of 2013
H.R.647 - Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Act of 2014
H.R.809 - Field EMS Quality, Innovation, and Cost Effectiveness Improvements Act of 2013
H.R.1098 - Traumatic Brain Injury Reauthorization Act of 2013
H.R.1201 - Training Tomorrow's Doctors Today Act
H.R.1263 - Excellence in Mental Health Act
H.R.1179 - Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 2013
H.R.1180 - Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2013
H.R.1487 - Improved Health Care Lower Cost Act of 2013
H.R.1838 - Enhanced Access to Medicaid Services
H.R.2186 - Verifying Authority and Legality In Drug Compounding Act of 2013
H.R.2900 - Offering Patients True Individualized Options Now (Option Act of 2013)
H.R.2300 - Empowering Patients First Act of 2013
H.R.2810 - Medicare Patient Access and Quality Improvement Act of 2013
H.R.3392 - Patient Safety and Drug Abuse Prevention Act
H.R.3528 - National All Schedules Prescription Electronic Reporting Reauthorization Act of 2013
H.R.3548 - Improving Trauma Care Act of 2013
H.R.3717 - Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act of 2013
H.R.4015 - SGR Repeal and Medicare Provider Payment Modernization Act of 2014
H.R.4080 - Trauma Systems and Regionalization of Emergency Care Reauthorization Act
H.R.4106 - Saving Lives, Saving Costs Act
H.R.4169 - Stop Overdose Stat Act
H.R.4574 - Strengthening Mental Health in Our Communities Act of 2014
H.R.5460 - Medicare Ambulance Access, Fraud Prevention and Reform Act of 2014
S.44 - Medical Care Access Protection (MCAP) Act of 2013
S.264 - Excellence in Mental Health Act
S.265 - Community-Based Mental Health Infrastructure Improvements Act
S.313 - Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Act of 2014
S.328 - Strengthening Rural Access to Emergency Services Act
S.351 - Protecting Seniors' Access to Medicare Act of 2013
S.569 - Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 2013
S.577 - Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2013
S.755 - Enhanced Access to Medicaid Services
S.961 - Health Care Safety Net Enhancement Act of 2013
S.1871 - SGR Repeal and Medicare Beneficiary Access of 2013
S.2110 - Medicare SGR Repeal and Beneficiary Access Improvement Act of 2014
S.2157 - Commonsense Medicare SGR Repeal and Beneficiary Access Improvement Act of 2014
S.2240 - Medicare Choices Empowerment and Protection Act
S.2400 - Field EMS Innovation Act
S.2405 - Trauma Systems and Regionalization of Emergency Care Reauthorization Act
S.2406 - Improving Trauma Care Act of 2014
S.2501 - Hospital Readmission Accuracy and Accountability Act
S.2539 - Traumatic Brain Injury Reauthorization Act of 2014
S.2755 - Overdose Prevention Act
Cited source text, amounts, lobbyists, and targets
H.R.36 - Health Care Safety Net Enhancement Act of 2013
H.R.235 - Veteran Emergency Medical Technician Support Act of 2013
H.R.297 - Children's Hospital GME Support Reauthorization Act of 2013
H.R.351 - Protecting Seniors' Access to Medicare Act of 2013H.R.574 - Medicare Physician Payment Innovation Act of 2013
H.R.809 - Field EMS Quality, Innovation, and Cost Effectiveness Improvements Act of 2013
H.R.1098 Traumatic Brain Injury Reauthorization Act of 2013
H.R.1201 - Training Tomorrow's Doctors Today Act
H.R.1263 - Excellence in Mental Health Act
H.R.1179 - Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 2013
H.R.1180 - Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2013
H.R.1487 - Improved Health Care Lower Cost Act of 2013
H.R.1838 Enhanced Access to Medicaid Services
H.R.2186 - Verifying Authority and Legality In Drug Compounding Act of 2013
H.R.2900 - Offering Patients True Individualized Options Now (Option Act of 2013)
H.R.2300 - Empowering Patients First Act of 2013
H.R.2810 Medicare Patient Access and Quality Improvement Act of 2013
H.R.3230 Veterans' Access to Care Through Choice, Accountability and Transparency Act of 2014
H.R.3392 - Patient Safety and Drug Abuse Prevention Act
H.R.3527 Poison Center Network Act
H.R.3528 National All Schedules Prescription Electronic Reporting Reauthorization Act of 2013
H.R.3548 - Improving Trauma Care Act of 2013
H.R.3717 Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act of 2013
H.R.4015 SGR Repeal and Medicare Provider Payment Modernization Act of 2014
H.R.4080 - Trauma Systems and Regionalization of Emergency Care Reauthorization Act
H.R.4106 - Saving Lives, Saving Costs Act
H.R.4169 Stop Overdose Stat Act
H.R.4290 Wakefield Act of 2014
H.R.4574 Strengthening Mental Health in Our Communities Act of 2014
H.R.5460 Medicare Ambulance Access, Fraud Prevention and Reform Act of 2014
S.44 - Medical Care Access Protection (MCAP) Act of 2013
S.264 - Excellence in Mental Health Act
S.265 - Community-Based Mental Health Infrastructure Improvements Act
S.328 - Strengthening Rural Access to Emergency Services Act
S.351 - Protecting Seniors' Access to Medicare Act of 2013
S.569 - Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 2013
S.577 - Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2013
S.755 Enhanced Access to Medicaid Services
S.961 - Health Care Safety Net Enhancement Act of 2013
S.1719 Poison Center Network Act
S.1871 SGR Repeal and Medicare Beneficiary Access of 2013
S.2110 Medicare SGR Repeal and Beneficiary Access Improvement Act of 2014
S.2154 Emergency Medical Services for Children Reauthorization Act of 2014
S.2157 Commonsense Medicare SGR Repeal and Beneficiary Access Improvement Act of 2014
S.2240 Medicare Choices Empowerment and Protection Act
S.2400 Field EMS Innovation Act
S.2405 Trauma Systems and Regionalization of Emergency Care Reauthorization Act
S.2406 Improving Trauma Care Act of 2014
S.2450 Veterans' Access to Care Through Choice, Accountability and Transparency Act of 2014
S.2501 Hospital Readmission Accuracy and Accountability Act
S.2539 Traumatic Brain Injury Reauthorization Act of 2014
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Contacts in support of No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act (H.R. 7, S. 946), to codify government-wide policy against funding abortion. Contacts in support of Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act (H.R. 3279, S. 1848), legislation to correct concealment practices pertaining to abortion coverage in exchange-participating health plans. (continued)Contacts in support of the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (H.R. 1797), to protect pain-capable unborn children beginning at 20 weeks fetal age (passed by the House of Representatives on June 18, 2013), and Senate companion legislation (S. 1670).
Contacts in support of Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act (PRENDA), to ban sex-selection abortions (S. 138, HR 447).
Contacts in support of Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act (CIANA)(S. 369, HR 732), to require an abortionist to notify a parent before performing an abortion on a minor from a different state, with certain exceptions.
Contacts in support of the Health Care Conscience Rights Act (HR 940, S. 1204), to prevent the imposition of regulatory mandates that violate the religious or moral convictions of those who purchase or provide health insurance, to prevent any level of government from discriminating against health care providers who decline to participate in abortions, and to empower victims to seek relief in court for violations of the federal conscience laws. Contacts in opposition to the "Protect Women's Health from Corporate Interference Act" (S. 2578/H.R. 5051), legislation which would further empower the Obama Administration to mandate that certain insurance plans cover abortion pills such as RU-486, surgical abortion (including late abortions), assisted suicide, or anything else the Administration chooses to classify as preventive services, overriding all existing federal laws that protect religious freedom and conscience rights; the Senate refused to invoke cloture to proceed to this legislation on July 16, 2014.
Contacts in support of carrying over abortion-related limitation provisions in FY 2015 appropriations bills, including Hyde Amendment in HHS appropriations bill, and other abortion limitation provisions in Commerce-Justice-Science (H.R. 4660/S. 2437), Financial Services (H.R. 5016), and State-Foreign Operations (H.R. 5013/S. 2499) appropriations bills; no position on State-Foreign Operations provision conforming language related to the Peace Corps to comparable HHS language. Contacts in support of curtailing U.S. funding of UNFPA. Contacts in opposition to language proposed by Sen. Shaheen to State/Foreign Operations appropriations bill (S. 2499) to preclude a president from re-applying pro-life conditions to private organizations that receive foreign aid grants (e.g., "Mexico City Policy"), as adopted in Senate Appropriations Committee June 19, 2014; no position on State-Foreign Operations provision conforming language related to the Peace Corps to comparable HHS language.
Contacts in support of the Homeland Security Respect for Life Act (H.R. 493), to prevent federal funding of abortion under programs within the Department of Homeland Security, with certain exceptions, and comparable limitation language ("Aderholt-Carter Amendment") to FY 2015 Homeland Security appropriations bill (H.R. 4903); the Aderholt amendment was adopted in House Appropriations Committee, June 11, 2014, 29-18.
Contacts in support of S. 154/HR 346, to prevent coverage of abortion, with certain exceptions, in "multi-state" (national) health plans, created by PL 111-148, to be administered by the Office of Personnel Management, and comparable language ("Harris-Nunnelee Amendment"), added to FY 2015 Financial Services appropriations bill (H.R. 5016) at House Appropriation Committee markup, June 25, 2014, 29-21. H.R. 5016 passed the House July 16, 2014, without challenge to this provision.
Contacts in support of the Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition Act (HR 217/S. 135). Consultations regarding other legislative concepts relating to Title X, including legislation dealing with adoption-counseling requirements with respect to Title X, including H.R. 3062, S. 1539, and other draft legislation not introduced; NRLC took no position on these measures.
Consultations regarding abortion-related components of "American Health Care Reform Act" (H.R. 3121). See HCR page for additional information on contacts on this legislation.
Consultations regarding proposed rule published by Office of Personnel Management in August 8, 2013 Federal Register, 78 Fed. Reg. 48337 (2013), concerning subsidies for health plans to be purchased by members of Congress and certain congressional staff on Obamacare exchanges. (Final Rule published Oct. 2, 2013.) The OPM proposal would allow payments to flow through OPM to plans that cover elective abortion, in violation of the Smith Amendment, a limitation amendment contained in the Financial Services appropriations bill (H.R. 5016).
(continued)Contacts in support of H.R. 4698, the Every Child is a Blessing Act (legislation to curb use of wrongful birth and wrongful life causes of action), introduced by Rep. Palazzo on May 21, 2014. Consultations regarding possible offering of related provisions as amendment to H.R. 5016 (not offered).
Consultations regarding anti-trafficking legislation, H.R. 3530; no position taken on substitute as reported by the House Judiciary Committee on May 15, 2014, and approved by the House on May 20, 2014.
Consultations regarding H.R. 2772, "Rape Survivor Child Custody Act"; no position.
Contacts in opposition to "Women's Health Protection Act" (H.R. 3471, S. 1696), a proposed federal statute to invalidate virtually all state and federal regulations pertaining to abortion, including testimony by National Right to Life president at hearing on S. 1696 before the Senate Judiciary Committee, July 15, 2014.
Contacts explaining nonsupport for H.R. 1091/S. 583 and H.R. 2764, based on lack of clarity and erroneous legal premises.
Consultations regarding possible abortion-related revisions to: Empowering Patients First Act (H.R. 2300, Rep. Price); H.R. 3121, Rep. Roe); and conceptual outline of health-care legislation (not introduced) by Senators Hatch/Coburn/Burr.
Contacts in support of "Heartbeat Informed Consent Act" (H.R. 5551), legislation to require that if an abortionist performs an ultrasound, the pregnant woman is offered an opportunity to view the ultrasound.
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Contacts in support of repealing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Public Law 111-148, because repeal would (continued)1) eliminate the excise tax on high cost employer-sponsored health coverage which would discourage businesses from offering plans less likely to deny life-saving medical treatment, 2) eliminate the Independent Payment Advisory Boards duty to make recommendations to limit growth in private, nongovernmental spending on health to below the rate of medical inflation, 3) eliminate the authority of the Department of Health and Human Services to implement those recommendations by imposing quality and efficiency measures on health care providers, limiting the circumstances in which treatments can be given to their patients, 4) eliminate the authority of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services effectively to limit the amount of funds senior citizens may voluntarily add on top of the government contribution in order to obtain Medicare Advantage private-fee-for-service health insurance less likely to deny care and more likely to offer health care providers reimbursement rates high enough to induce them to accept Medicare patients, 5) eliminate the requirement that state health insurance exchanges administrators exclude from their exchanges insurance plans offered by any insurers the administrators believe allow their policyholders inside or outside the exchange to spend what the administrators consider an excessive or unjustified amount on their own health care, thereby restricting the medical treatment, and 6) eliminate the provisions related to shared decisionmaking because they are likely to be used, on balance, to dissuade patients from choosing life-saving treatment.
Contacts in response to inquiries regarding implementation of certain elements of The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Public Law 111-148, related to the denial of life-saving medical treatments.
Contacts in regards to H.R. 3121, The American Health Care Reform Act of 2013 because of concerns it 1) replaces tax preference for employer-provided health insurance with a deduction for health insurance premiums and indexes the deductibility limit for health insurance to general inflation measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI), rather than to medical inflation, which could lead to reduction in health insurance plan benefits, and 2) may suppress private, nongovernmental, health care spending beyond a governmentally imposed limit.
Contacts regarding H.R.2300, the Empowering Patients First Act of 2013, because 1) the use of best practices guidelines could establish a federally managed limit on what medical treatment is expected to be provided, and set a bureaucratically dictated standard of care and 2) clarification is needed to ensure malpractice limits are not being made applicable to intentional denial of treatment for discriminatory reasons.
Contacts regarding H.R. 1173, the Personalize Your Care Act of 2013, because 1) it provides for inadequate oversight regarding the creation of advance planning materials, websites, etc. in order to protect against the materials being crafted in a way that persuades patients to reject treatment they might otherwise choose, 2) unmonitored practitioner consultations could lead to patients forgoing treatment they would otherwise have wanted, and 3) it includes adverse changes to the Assisted Suicide Funding and Restriction Act.
Contacts in regard to potential health reform legislation (not introduced) over concerns related to 1) the authority of any sort of health care commissions ability to restrict access to life-saving care, 2) premium price controls that might reduce the ability of insurance to cover life-saving care, 3) tax increases on health care or health insurance that create incentives for employers to significantly reduce health insurance plans, 4) efforts to prevent private health care spending from keeping up with medical inflation, and 5) malpractice limits being made applicable to intentional denial of treatment for discriminatory reasons.
(continued)U.S. Senate
Contacts in support of repealing The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Public Law 111-148, because repeal would 1) eliminate the excise tax on high cost employer-sponsored health coverage which would discourage businesses from offering plans less likely to deny life-saving medical treatment, 2) eliminate the Independent Payment Advisory Boards duty to make recommendations to limit growth in private, nongovernmental spending on health to below the rate of medical inflation, 3) eliminate the authority of the Department of Health and Human Services to implement those recommendations by imposing quality and efficiency measures on health care providers, limiting the circumstances in which treatments can be given to their patients, 4) eliminate the authority of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services effectively to limit the amount of funds senior citizens may voluntarily add on top of the government contribution in order to obtain Medicare Advantage private-fee-for-service health insurance less likely to deny care and more likely to offer health care providers reimbursement rates high enough to induce them to accept Medicare patients, 5) eliminate the requirement that state health insurance exchanges administrators exclude from their exchanges insurance plans offered by any insurers the administrators believe allow their policyholders inside or outside the exchange to spend what the administrators consider an excessive or unjustified amount on their own health care, thereby restricting the medical treatment, and 6) eliminate the provisions related to shared decisionmaking because they are likely to be used, on balance, to dissuade patients from choosing life-saving treatment.
Contacts in response to inquiries regarding implementation of certain elements of The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Public Law 111-148, related to the denial of life-saving medical treatments.
Contacts in support of S. 2064, the Four Rationiners Repeal Act of 2014, because it would 1) eliminate the Independent Payment Advisory Boards duty to make recommendations to limit growth in private, nongovernmental spending on health to below the rate of medical inflation, 2) eliminate the excise tax on high cost employer-sponsored health coverage which would discourage businesses from offering plans less likely to deny life-saving medical treatment, 3) eliminate the authority of the Department of Health and Human Services to implement those recommendations by imposing quality and efficiency measures on health care providers, limiting the circumstances in which treatments can be given to their patients, 4) eliminate the authority of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services effectively to limit the amount of funds senior citizens may voluntarily add on top of the government contribution in order to obtain Medicare Advantage private-fee-for-service health insurance less likely to deny care and more likely to offer health care providers reimbursement rates high enough to induce them to accept Medicare patients, 5) eliminate the requirement that state health insurance exchanges administrators exclude from their exchanges insurance plans offered by any insurers the administrators believe allow their policyholders inside or outside the exchange to spend what the administrators consider an excessive or unjustified amount on their own health care, thereby restricting the medical treatment.
(continued)Contacts regarding legislation (not introduced) regarding encouraging advance directives for Medicare recipients so long as legislation is not used to dissuade patients from choosing life-saving treatment, nutrition and hydration.
Contacts regarding legislation S.1439, the Care Planning Act of 2013, regarding advance care planning because of 1) the inadequacy of oversight regarding the creation of advance planning materials, websites, etc. in order to protection against the materials being crafted in a way that persuades patients to reject treatment they might otherwise choose, and 2) the creation of interdisciplinary teams under Medicare and Medicaid to engage in advance care planning and counseling without adequate oversight that they could seek influence patients or their representative to forego life-saving medical treatment because of a bias toward a quality of life ideology and/or to save money.
Contacts regarding legislation S.2240 Medicare Choices Empowerment and Protection Act because of 1) the need for a neutral website where all the various advance directive forms would be available and 2) the potential that portability provisions could force states to recognize directives inconsistent with their substantive law.
Contacts regarding the Patient Choice, Affordability, Responsibility, and Empowerment Act (or Patient Care Act) because of concerns it 1) replaces tax preference for employer-provided health insurance with a deduction for health insurance premiums and indexes the deductibility limit for health insurance to general inflation measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI), rather than to medical inflation, which could lead to reduction in health insurance plan benefits, and 2) may suppress private, nongovernmental, health care spending beyond a governmentally imposed limit.
Contacts in regard to potential health reform legislation (not introduced) over concerns related to 1) the authority of any sort of health care commissions ability to restrict access to life-saving care, 2) premium price controls that might reduce the ability of insurance to cover expensive life-saving care, 3) tax increases on health care or health insurance that create incentives for employers to significantly reduce health insurance plans, 4) efforts to prevent private health care spending from keeping up with medical inflation, and 5) malpractice limits being made applicable to intentional denial of treatment for discriminatory reasons.
Contacts regarding legislation (not introduced) regarding advance directives to ensure that legislation is not used to dissuade patients from choosing life-saving treatment, nutrition and hydration.
Contacts regarding legislation (not introduced) regarding advance directives to ensure that legislation is not used to dissuade patients from choosing life-saving treatment, nutrition and hydration.
Client expense: $79,421 · Firm income: Not reported
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Contacts in support of No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act (H.R. 7, S. 946), to codify government-wide policy against funding abortion. Contacts in support of Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act (H.R. 3279, S. 1848), legislation to correct concealment practices pertaining to abortion coverage in exchange-participating health plans. H.R. 7 (modified to include components (continued)of H.R. 3279) passed the House of Representatives on January 28, 2014, 227-188.
Contacts in support of the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (H.R. 1797), to protect pain-capable unborn children beginning at 20 weeks fetal age (passed by the House of Representatives on June 18, 2013), and Senate companion legislation (S. 1670).
Contacts in support of Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act (PRENDA), to ban sex-selection abortions (S. 138, HR 447).
Contacts in support of Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act (CIANA)(S. 369, HR 732), to require an abortionist to notify a parent before performing an abortion on a minor from a different state, with certain exceptions.
Contacts in support of the Health Care Conscience Rights Act (HR 940, S. 1204), to prevent the imposition of regulatory mandates that violate the religious or moral convictions of those who purchase or provide health insurance, to prevent any level of government from discriminating against health care providers who decline to participate in abortions, and to empower victims to seek relief in court for violations of the federal conscience laws.
Contacts in support of carrying over abortion-related limitation provisions in FY 2015 appropriations bills, including Hyde Amendment in HHS appropriations bill, and other abortion limitation provisions in Commerce-Justice-Science (H.R. 4660/S. 2437), Financial Services (H.R. 5016), and State-Foreign Operations (H.R. 5013/S. 2499) appropriations bills; no position on State-Foreign Operations provision conforming language related to the Peace Corps to comparable HHS language. Contacts in support of curtailing U.S. funding of UNFPA. Contacts in opposition to language proposed by Sen. Shaheen to State/Foreign Operations appropriations bill (S. 2499) to preclude a president from re-applying pro-life conditions to private organizations that receive foreign aid grants (e.g., "Mexico City Policy"), as adopted in Senate Appropriations Committee June 19, 2014; no position on State-Foreign Operations provision conforming language related to the Peace Corps to comparable HHS language.
Contacts in support of the Homeland Security Respect for Life Act (H.R. 493), to prevent federal funding of abortion under programs within the Department of Homeland Security, with certain exceptions, and comparable limitation language ("Aderholt-Carter Amendment") to FY 2015 Homeland Security appropriations bill (H.R. 4903).
Contacts in support of S. 154/HR 346, to prevent coverage of abortion, with certain exceptions, in "multi-state" (national) health plans, created by PL 111-148, to be administered by the Office of Personnel Management, and comparable language ("Harris-Nunnelee Amendment") in FY 2015 Financial Services appropriations bill (H.R. 5016).
Contacts in support of the Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition Act (HR 217/S. 135). Consultations regarding other legislative concepts relating to Title X, including legislation dealing with adoption-counseling requirements with respect to Title X, including H.R. 3062, S. 1539, and other draft legislation not introduced; NRLC took no position on these measures.
Consultations regarding abortion-related components of "American Health Care Reform Act" (H.R. 3121). See HCR page for additional information on contacts on this legislation.
Consultations regarding proposed rule published by Office of Personnel Management in August 8, 2013 Federal Register, 78 Fed. Reg. 48337 (2013), concerning subsidies for health plans to be purchased by members of Congress and certain congressional staff on Obamacare exchanges. (Final Rule published Oct. 2, 2013.) The OPM proposal would allow payments to flow through OPM to plans that cover elective abortion, in violation of the Smith Amendment, a limitation amendment contained in the Financial Services appropriations bill (H.R. 5016).
(continued)Consultations regarding draft language of legislation to curb "wrongful birth" and "wrongful life" causes of action, and contacts in support of H.R. 4698, the Every Child is a Blessing Act, introduced by Rep. Palazzo on May 21, 2014.
Consultations regarding anti-trafficking legislation, H.R. 3530; no position taken on substitute as reported by the House Judiciary Committee on May 15, 2014, and approved by the House on May 20, 2014.
Consultations regarding H.R. 2772, "Rape Survivor Child Custody Act"; no position.
Contacts in opposition to "Women's Health Protection Act" (H.R. 3471, S. 1696), a proposed federal statute to invalidate virtually all state and federal regulations pertaining to abortion.
Contacts explaining nonsupport for H.R. 1091/S. 583 and H.R. 2764, based on lack of clarity and erroneous legal premises.
Consultations regarding possible abortion-related revisions to: Empowering Patients First Act (H.R. 2300, Rep. Price); H.R. 3121, Rep. Roe); and conceptual outline of health-care legislation (not introduced) by Senators Hatch/Coburn/Burr.
Client expense: $79,421 · Firm income: Not reported
Cited source text, amounts, lobbyists, and targets
H.R.36 - Health Care Safety Net Enhancement Act of 2013
H.R.235 - Veteran Emergency Medical Technician Support Act of 2013
H.R.297 - Children's Hospital GME Support Reauthorization Act of 2013
H.R.351 - Protecting Seniors' Access to Medicare Act of 2013H.R.574 - Medicare Physician Payment Innovation Act of 2013
H.R.809 - Field EMS Quality, Innovation, and Cost Effectiveness Improvements Act of 2013
H.R.1098 Traumatic Brain Injury Reauthorization Act of 2013
H.R.1201 - Training Tomorrow's Doctors Today Act
H.R.1263 - Excellence in Mental Health Act
H.R.1179 - Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 2013
H.R.1180 - Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2013
H.R.1487 - Improved Health Care Lower Cost Act of 2013
H.R.1838 Enhanced Access to Medicaid Services
H.R.2186 - Verifying Authority and Legality In Drug Compounding Act of 2013
H.R.2900 - Offering Patients True Individualized Options Now (Option Act of 2013)
H.R.2300 - Empowering Patients First Act of 2013
H.R.2810 Medicare Patient Access and Quality Improvement Act of 2013
H.R.3230 Veterans' Access to Care Through Choice, Accountability and Transparency Act of 2014
H.R.3392 - Patient Safety and Drug Abuse Prevention Act
H.R.3527 Poison Center Network Act
H.R.3528 National All Schedules Prescription Electronic Reporting Reauthorization Act of 2013
H.R.3548 - Improving Trauma Care Act of 2013
H.R.3717 Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act of 2013
H.R.4015 SGR Repeal and Medicare Provider Payment Modernization Act of 2014
H.R.4080 - Trauma Systems and Regionalization of Emergency Care Reauthorization Act
H.R.4106 - Saving Lives, Saving Costs Act
H.R.4169 Stop Overdose Stat Act
H.R.4290 Wakefield Act of 2014
H.R.4574 Strengthening Mental Health in Our Communities Act of 2014
S.44 - Medical Care Access Protection (MCAP) Act of 2013
S.264 - Excellence in Mental Health Act
S.265 - Community-Based Mental Health Infrastructure Improvements Act
S.328 - Strengthening Rural Access to Emergency Services Act
S.351 - Protecting Seniors' Access to Medicare Act of 2013
S.569 - Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 2013
S.577 - Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2013
S.755 Enhanced Access to Medicaid Services
S.961 - Health Care Safety Net Enhancement Act of 2013
S.1719 Poison Center Network Act
S.1871 SGR Repeal and Medicare Beneficiary Access of 2013
S.2110 Medicare SGR Repeal and Beneficiary Access Improvement Act of 2014
S.2154 Emergency Medical Services for Children Reauthorization Act of 2014
S.2157 Commonsense Medicare SGR Repeal and Beneficiary Access Improvement Act of 2014
S.2240 Medicare Choices Empowerment and Protection Act
S.2400 Field EMS Innovation Act
S.2405 Trauma Systems and Regionalization of Emergency Care Reauthorization Act
S.2406 Improving Trauma Care Act of 2014
S.2450 Veterans' Access to Care Through Choice, Accountability and Transparency Act of 2014
S.2501 Hospital Readmission Accuracy and Accountability Act
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H.R.36-Health Care Safety Net Enhancement Act of 2013
H.R.235-Veteran Emergency Medical Technician Support Act of 2013
H.R.297-Children's Hospital GME Support Reauthorization Act of 2013
H.R.351-Protecting Seniors' Access to Medicare Act of 2013H.R.574-Medicare Physician Payment Innovation Act of 2013
H.R.809-Field EMS Quality, Innovation, and Cost Effectiveness Improvements Act of 2013
H.R.1098-Traumatic Brain Injury Reauthorization Act of 2013
H.R.1201-Training Tomorrow's Doctors Today Act
H.R.1263-Excellence in Mental Health Act
H.R.1179-Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 2013
H.R.1180-Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2013
H.R.1487-Improved Health Care Lower Cost Act of 2013
H.R.1838-Enhanced Access to Medicaid Services
H.R.2186-Verifying Authority and Legality In Drug Compounding Act of 2013
H.R.2900-Offering Patients True Individualized Options Now (Option Act of 2013)
H.R.2300-Empowering Patients First Act of 2013
H.R.2810-Medicare Patient Access and Quality Improvement Act of 2013
H.R.3392-Patient Safety and Drug Abuse Prevention Act
H.R.3527-Poison Center Network Act
H.R.3528-National All Schedules Prescription Electronic Reporting Reauthorization Act of 2013
H.R.3548-Improving Trauma Care Act of 2013
H.R.3717-Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act of 2013
H.R.4015-SGR Repeal and Medicare Provider Payment Modernization Act of 2014
H.R.4080-Trauma Systems and Regionalization of Emergency Care Reauthorization Act
H.R.4106-Saving Lives, Saving Costs Act
H.R.4302 (P.L.113-93)-Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014
S.44-Medical Care Access Protection (MCAP) Act of 2013
S.264-Excellence in Mental Health Act
S.265-Community-Based Mental Health Infrastructure Improvements Act
S.328-Strengthening Rural Access to Emergency Services Act
S.351-Protecting Seniors' Access to Medicare Act of 2013
S.569-Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 2013
S.577-Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2013
S.755-Enhanced Access to Medicaid Services
S.961-Health Care Safety Net Enhancement Act of 2013
S.1719-Poison Center Network Act
S.1871-SGR Repeal and Medicare Beneficiary Access of 2013
S.2110-Medicare SGR Repeal and Beneficiary Access Improvement Act of 2014
S.2157-Commonsense Medicare SGR Repeal and Beneficiary Access Improvement Act of 2014
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Contacts in support of No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act (H.R. 7, S. 946), to codify government-wide policy against funding abortion. Contacts in support of Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act (H.R. 3279, S. 1848), legislation to correct concealment practices pertaining to abortion coverage in exchange-participating health plans. H.R. 7 (modified to include components (continued)of H.R. 3279) passed the House of Representatives on January 28, 2014, 227-188.
Contacts in support of the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (H.R. 1797), to protect pain-capable unborn children beginning at 20 weeks fetal age (passed by the House of Representatives on June 18, 2013), and Senate companion legislation (S. 1670). Consultations on various draft legislative proposals (not introduced) to tighten qualifications for abortion providers.
Contacts in support of Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act (PRENDA), to ban sex-selection abortions (S. 138, HR 447).
Contacts in support of Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act (CIANA)(S. 369, HR 732), to require an abortionist to notify a parent before performing an abortion on a minor from a different state, with certain exceptions.
Contacts in support of the Health Care Conscience Rights Act (HR 940, S. 1204), to prevent the imposition of regulatory mandates that violate the religious or moral convictions of those who purchase or provide health insurance, to prevent any level of government from discriminating against health care providers who decline to participate in abortions, and to empower victims to seek relief in court for violations of the federal conscience laws.
Contacts in support of carrying over abortion-related limitation provisions in FY 2015 appropriations bills, including Hyde Amendment in HHS appropriations bill, and other carry-over abortion limitation provisions in Commerce-Justice-Science, Financial Services, and State-Foreign Operations. Contacts in support of curtailing U.S. funding of UNFPA.
Contacts in support of the Homeland Security Respect for Life Act (H.R. 493), to prevent federal funding of abortion under programs within the Department of Homeland Security, with certain exceptions, and comparable limitation language to FY 2015 Homeland Security appropriations bill.
Contacts in support of S. 154/HR 346, to prevent coverage of abortion, with certain exceptions, in "multi-state" (national) health plans, created by PL 111-148, to be administered by the Office of Personnel Management, and comparable language ("Nunnelee Amendment") in FY 2015 Financial Services appropriations bill.
Contacts in support of the Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition Act (HR 217/S. 135). Consultations regarding other legislative concepts relating to Title X, including legislation dealing with adoption-counseling requirements with respect to Title X, including H.R. 3062, S. 1539, and other draft legislation not introduced; NRLC took no position on these measures.
Consultations regarding abortion-related components of "American Health Care Reform Act" (H.R. 3121). See HCR page for additional information on contacts on this legislation.
Consultations regarding proposed rule published by Office of Personnel Management in August 8, 2013 Federal Register, 78 Fed. Reg. 48337 (2013), concerning subsidies for health plans to be purchased by members of Congress and certain congressional staff on Obamacare exchanges. The OPM proposal would allow payments to flow through OPM to plans that cover elective abortion, in violation of the Smith Amendment, a limitation amendment to the Financial Services appropriations bill.
Contacts in opposition to "Women's Health Protection Act" (H.R. 3471, S. 1696), a proposed federal statute to invalidate virtually all state and federal regulations pertaining to abortion.
Consultations regarding possible abortion-related revisions to: Empowering Patients First Act (H.R. 2300, Rep. Price); H.R. 3121, Rep. Roe); and conceptual outline of health-care legislation (not introduced) by Senators Hatch/Coburn/Burr.
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HR 2575 "Save American Workers Act of 2014," all provisions. HR 3121 "American Health Care Reform Act of 2013," all provisions. HR 2300 "Empowering Patients First Act of 2013," all provisions. Issues relating to health insurance reform and an alternative plan.
Client expense: $90,000 · Firm income: Not reported
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Contacts in support of No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act (H.R. 7, S. 946), to codify government-wide policy against funding abortion. Contacts in support of Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act (H.R. 3279, S. 1848), legislation to correct concealment practices pertaining to abortion coverage in exchange-participating health plans. (continued)Contacts in support of the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (H.R. 1797), to protect pain-capable unborn children beginning at 20 weeks fetal age (passed by the House of Representatives on June 18, 2013), and Senate companion legislation (S. 1670). Consultations on various draft legislative proposals (not introduced) to tighten qualifications for abortion providers.
Contacts in support of Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act (PRENDA), to ban sex-selection abortions (S. 138, HR 447).
Contacts in support of Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act (CIANA)(S. 369, HR 732), to require an abortionist to notify a parent before performing an abortion on a minor from a different state, with certain exceptions.
Contacts in support of the Health Care Conscience Rights Act (HR 940, S. 1204), to prevent the imposition of regulatory mandates that violate the religious or moral convictions of those who purchase or provide health insurance, to prevent any level of government from discriminating against health care providers who decline to participate in abortions, and to empower victims to seek relief in court for violations of the federal conscience laws.
Contacts in support of abortion-related limitation provisions in FY 2014 appropriations bills, including Hyde Amendment in HHS appropriations bill, and other carry-over abortion limitation provisions in FY 2014 appropriations bills, Commerce-Justice-Science (H.R. 2787/.S. 1329), Financial Services (H.R. 2786/S. 1371), Labor-HHS (House bill unnumbered, S. 1284), and State-Foreign Operations (H.R. 2855/ S. 1372). Contacts in support of curtailing U.S. funding of UNFPA. All carryover provisions were retained in omnibus appropriations bill (enacted as H.R. 3547) covering the remainder of FY 2014; no new abortion-related provisions were incorporated.
Contacts in support of the Homeland Security Respect for Life Act (H.R. 493), to prevent federal funding of abortion under programs within the Department of Homeland Security, with certain exceptions, and comparable limitation language to FY 2014 Homeland Security appropriations bill (section 563 of H.R. 2217).
Contacts in support of S. 154/HR 346, to prevent coverage of abortion, with certain exceptions, in "multi-state" (national) health plans, created by PL 111-148, to be administered by the Office of Personnel Management, and comparable language ("Nunnelee Amendment") in FY 2014 Financial Services appropriations bill (H.R. 2786).
Contacts in support of the Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition Act (HR 217/S. 135). Consultations regarding other legislative concepts relating to Title X, including legislation dealing with adoption-counseling requirements with respect to Title X, including H.R. 3062, S. 1539, and other draft legislation not introduced; NRLC took no position on these measures.
Consultations regarding abortion-related components of "American Health Care Reform Act" (H.R. 3121). See HCR page for additional information on contacts on this legislation.
Consultations regarding proposed rule published by Office of Personnel Management in August 8, 2013 Federal Register, 78 Fed. Reg. 48337 (2013), concerning subsidies for health plans to be purchased by members of Congress and certain congressional staff on Obamacare exchanges. The OPM proposal would allow payments to flow through OPM to plans that cover elective abortion, in violation of the Smith Amendment, a limitation amendment to the Financial Services appropriations bill.
Consultations on S. 959, related to drug compounding; NRLC took no position on this legislation.
Contacts in opposition to "Women's Health Protection Act" (H.R. 3471, S. 1696), a proposed federal statute to invalidate virtually all state and federal regulations pertaining to abortion.
Consultations regarding possible revisions to Empowering Patients First Act (H.R. 2300).
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H.R.36 - Health Care Safety Net Enhancement Act of 2013
H.R.235 - Veteran Emergency Medical Technician Support Act of 2013
H.R.297 - Children's Hospital GME Support Reauthorization Act of 2013
H.R.351 - Protecting Seniors' Access to Medicare Act of 2013H.R.574 - Medicare Physician Payment Innovation Act of 2013
H.R.809 - Field EMS Quality, Innovation, and Cost Effectiveness Improvements Act of 2013
H.R.1098 Traumatic Brain Injury Reauthorization Act of 2013
H.R.1201 - Training Tomorrow's Doctors Today Act
H.R.1263 - Excellence in Mental Health Act
H.R.1179 - Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 2013
H.R.1180 - Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2013
H.R.1487 - Improved Health Care Lower Cost Act of 2013
H.R.2186 - Verifying Authority & Legality in Drug Compounding Act (Griffin Discussion Draft)
H.R.2900 - Offering Patients True Individualized Options Now (Option Act of 2013)
H.R.2300 - Empowering Patients First Act of 2013
H.R. 2810 Medicare Patient Access and Quality Improvement Act of 2013
H.R.3527 Poison Center Network Act
H.R.3528 National All Schedules Prescription Electronic Reporting Reauthorization Act of 2013
H.R.3717 Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act of 2013
S.44 - Medical Care Access Protection (MCAP) Act of 2013
S.242 - Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Reauthorization Act of 2013
S.264 - Excellence in Mental Health Act
S.265 - Community-Based Mental Health Infrastructure Improvements Act
S.328 - Strengthening Rural Access to Emergency Services Act
S.351 - Protecting Seniors' Access to Medicare Act of 2013
S.569 - Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 2013
S.577 - Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2013
S.959 - Pharmaceutical Compounding Quality and Accountability Act
S.961 - Health Care Safety Net Enhancement Act of 2013
S.1719 Poison Center Network Act
Senate Finance Committee Draft of the "SGR Repeal and Medicare Beneficiary Access Improvement Act of 2013"
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H.R.36 - Health Care Safety Net Enhancement Act of 2013
H.R.235 - Veteran Emergency Medical Technician Support Act of 2013
H.R.297 - Children's Hospital GME Support Reauthorization Act of 2013
H.R.307 - Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Reauthorization Act of 2013H.R.351 - Protecting Seniors' Access to Medicare Act of 2013
H.R.574 - Medicare Physician Payment Innovation Act of 2013
H.R.809 - Field EMS Quality, Innovation, and Cost Effectiveness Improvements Act of 2013
H.R.1201 - Training Tomorrow's Doctors Today Act
H.R.1263 - Excellence in Mental Health Act
H.R.1179 - Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 2013
H.R.1180 - Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2013
H.R.1487 - Improved Health Care Lower Cost Act of 2013
H.R.2186 - Verifying Authority & Legality in Drug Compounding Act (Griffin Discussion Draft)
H.R.2900 - Offering Patients True Individualized Options Now (Option Act of 2013)
H.R.2300 - Empowering Patients First Act of 2013 (Rep. Tom Price)
S.44 - Medical Care Access Protection (MCAP) Act of 2013
S.242 - Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Reauthorization Act of 2013
S.264 - Excellence in Mental Health Act
S.265 - Community-Based Mental Health Infrastructure Improvements Act
S.328 - Strengthening Rural Access to Emergency Services Act
S.351 - Protecting Seniors' Access to Medicare Act of 2013
S.569 - Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 2013
S.577 - Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2013
S.959 - Pharmaceutical Compounding Quality and Accountability Act
S.961 - Health Care Safety Net Enhancement Act of 2013
Client expense: $609,421 · Firm income: Not reported
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H.R. 1634 - Medical Flexible Spending Account Improvement Act
H.R. 1549 - Helping Sick American's Now Act
H.R. 1853 - Medicaid Accountability and Care Act
H.R. 1698 - Stabilize Medicaid and CHIP Coverage ActH.R. 1024 Medication Therapy Management Empowerment Act
S. 557 Medication Therapy Management Empowerment Act
H.R. 6482 : To amend the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 respecting the scoring of preventive health savings
H.R. 962 Medicare Diabetes Prevention Act
S. 452 Medicare Diabetes Prevention Act
H.R. 1549 Helping Sick Americans Now Act
S. 531 Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans Act
S. 39 Healthy Lifestyles and Prevention America Act
H.R. 1274 Access to Quality Diabetes Education Act of 2013
H.R. 2415 Treat and Reduce Obesity Act of 2013
H.R. 2178 Fitness Integrated with Teaching Kids Act
S. 945 Access to Quality Diabetes Education Act of 2013
S. 1184 Treat and Reduce Obesity Act of 2013
S.1033 Fitness Integrated with Teaching Kids Act
H.R. 2457 Women's Preventive Health Awareness Campaign
S. 1228 Medicare Better Health Rewards Program Act of 2013
H.R. 2524 Medicare Better Health Rewards Program Act of 2013
S. 744 Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act
S. 616 Conrad State 30 and Physician Access Act
H.R. 2484 Conrad State 30 and Physician Access Act
H.R. 1201 Training Tomorrows Doctors Today Act
S. 577 Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act
H.R. 1178 Creating Access to Residency Education Act
H.R. 487 Primary Care Workforce Access Improvement Act
S. 382 A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to allow physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and
clinical nurse specialists to supervise cardiac, intensive cardiac, and pulmonary rehabilitation programs.
S. 1152 Building a Health Care Workforce for the Future Act
S. 739 National Nursing Shortage Reform and Patient Advocacy Act
H.R. 2480 Nurse and Health Care Worker Protection Act of 2013
H.R. 1735 - In It All Together Act
H.R. 933 - Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013
H.R. 271 Resolving Environmental and Grid Reliability Conflicts Act of 2013
H.R. 1407 - Animal Drug User Fee Amendments of 2013
H.R. 1634 - Medical Flexible Spending Account Improvement Act
S. 983 - Keep the IRS Off Your Health Care Act of 2013
H.R. 1990 Keep the IRS Off Your Health Care Act of 2013
S. 1154 Exchange Sunset Act of 2013
H.R. 2305 Preventing and Reducing Improper Medicare and Medicaid Expenditures Act of 2013
H.R. 2328 Access to Professional Health Insurance Advisors Act of 2013
S. 954 - Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 2013
S. 1094 - Strengthening America's Schools Act of 2013
H.R. 2300 - Empowering Patients First Act of 2013
S. 957 Drug Supply Chain Security Act
H.R. 1121 Cyber Privacy Fortification Act
H.R. 1919 Safeguarding Americas Pharmaceuticals Act of 2013
S. 1180 - Medicare Data Access for Transparency and Accountability Act
S.1193 - Data Security and Breach Notification Act of 2013
Government targets: Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Executive Office of the President (EOP), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), SENATE