Health Care Reform Update & New Federal Budget

THIS JUST IN:
Bipartisan Meeting on Health Care Reform (Blair House, Thursday/Feb 25)

• Coming: White House Health Care Plan Specifics
• Link to C-SPAN Coverage at Blair House
• White House Invitation to House & Senate Leaders

Families USA

Since 1982, Families USA has worked to promote high-quality, affordable health care for all Americans. New items now on their site include:

Report: New Jobs through Better Health Care: Health Care Reform Could Boost Employment by 250,000 to 400,000 a Year This Decade, read here

Video/Podcasts from Health Action 2010 (Jan. 28-30) Families USA National Grass Roots Meeting, Washington, DC.

White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett (right) stopped by during the Friday lunch session of Health Action 2010 to thank the gathered advocates on behalf of President Obama for all their hard work throughout 2009.

Center on Budget & Policy Priorities
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities is a non-partisan research and policy institute which works at the federal and state levels on fiscal policy and public programs that affect low- and moderate-income families and individuals.

Examining the Administration's FY 2011 Budget (2/1/10), statement by Executive Director Robert Greenstein on the President's 2011 Budget Proposal (including health care reform). Read the statement, and see the segment airing on the PBS NewsHour (Obama Budget Fuels Debate Over Path to Slash Deficit, 2/1/10)

Using Reconciliation Process to Enact Health Reform Would Be Fully Consistent with Past Practice (1/27/10), analysis by Paul N. Van de Water and James R. Horney, part of a CBPP Special Series on Health Reform.

Reconciling with Reconciliation, by Ezra Klein, Washington Post (1/27/10) ... "Fox News has started calling the reconciliation process 'the nuclear option,' which implies that Bush's two tax cuts -- both of which went through reconciliation -- were Little Boy and Fat Man, respectively. Nancy Pelosi has a more apt term: 'Majority rule.' And as the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities explains in a new report, there's nothing uncommon about that. Emphasis theirs: ..." Read the full article on the Washington Post site.

Robert Greenstein, of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Awarded 2010 Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize (right). Learn more.