WASHINGTON, June 25– The National Association for Behavioral Healthcare issued the following news:. The National Association for Behavioral Healthcare is pleased to introduce the NABH Denial-of-Care Portal, a resource for members to provide information about their experiences with managed care organizations that impose barriers to care through…
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The House Appropriations Committee today released the fiscal year 2022 Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations bill, which will be considered in subcommittee tomorrow. Of this amount, discretionary funding for programs such as veterans' health care and Military Construction totals $124.5 billion, an increase of…
Cheri Bustos, D- Illinois, chair of the House Agriculture Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management, issued the following opening statement on June 23, 2021, at a hearing entitled “A Hearing to Review the Efficacy of the Farm Safety Net”:. Thank you to all the witnesses and my colleagues for joining us here today. I am excited to chair this…
Terri Sewell, D- Alabama, issued the following news release:. The same should be true for women receiving care through the VA who have honorably served our Nation. Sadly, many of their health needs go unaddressed in a VA system that has not evolved to equitably serve a changing population.
Ron Kind, D- Wisconsin, issued the following news release:. Ron Kind and Jason Smith introduced the bipartisan Promotion and Expansion of Private Employee Ownership Act to encourage the formation of employee-owned businesses through S Corporation Employee Stock Ownership Plans. The ESOP community is thankful to Congressman Kind and Congressman Smith for…
Bill Pascrell Jr., D- New Jersey, issued the following news release on June 24, 2021:. U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker and Congressman Bill Pascrell, Jr. today introduced bicameral legislation that creates a new Lead Free America Bond program for local communities seeking to replace lead service lines and other lead water infrastructure.
The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics issued the following book review:. By Charles Goodhart and Manoj Pradhan. In The Great Demographic Reversal: Ageing Societies, Waning Inequality, and an Inflation Revival, authors Charles Goodhart and Manoj Pradhan take a global, long-term view of past and future macroeconomic developments.
INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, June 25– The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies issued the following news release on June 24, 2021:. The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies today named Neil Alldredge as the association's next president and CEO, effective July 1. In that role, Alldredge regularly testified in legislatures around the…
Public Citizen issued the following news release on June 24, 2021:. Public Citizen and 24 organizations with New York State ties have submitted a comment to the New York Department of Financial Services in response to its proposed guidance to insurers on managing financial risks from the climate crisis. This guidance will impact insurers supervised by New…
The House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management issued the following testimony by FD Stonewater Managing Director Norman Dong as part of a video conference hearing entitled “Federal Real Estate Post-COVID-19 Part One: A View From The Private Sector”:. My name is Norman Dong,…
The Washington State Employment Security Department issued the following news release:. During the week of June 13- June 19, there were 7,544 initial regular unemployment claims and 374,810 total claims for all unemployment benefit categories filed by Washingtonians, according to the Employment Security Department. In the week ending June 19, ESD paid out…
The House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management issued the following testimony by Kay Sargent, lead of the global WorkPlace at HOK, on behalf of the International Facility Management Association, as part of a video conference hearing entitled “Federal Real Estate…
The House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management issued the following testimony by Kelly Bacon, global practice lead for workplace advisory practice at AECOM, as part of a video conference hearing entitled “Federal Real Estate Post-COVID-19 Part One: A View From The Private…
The AMA President Dr Omar Khorshid said the AMA had made a further submission recently to the ACCC calling on it to abandon its draft authorisation to allow Honeysuckle Health and nib to form a buying group to collectively negotiate and manage contracts with healthcare providers on behalf of private health insurers and other health care payers.
The U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration issued the following news release on June 24, 2021:. U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced that the Department's Economic Development Administration is awarding a $3 million grant to the city of Branson, Missouri, to construct a floodwall needed to protect infrastructure…
John P. Sarbanes, D- Maryland, issued the following news release on June 24, 2021:. During a House Health Subcommittee hearing today, Congressman John Sarbanes urged his colleagues in Congress to improve health equity and invest in efforts to root out systemic racism in America. “I believe Congress should use every available tool to create an equitable recovery, as…
Billy Long, R- Missouri, issued the following news release on June 24, 2021:. The U.S. Department of Commerce announced that the Economic Development Administration is awarding a $3 million grant to the city of Branson, Missouri for the construction of a floodwall to protect the Compton Drive Wastewater Treatment Plant. “I am thrilled that the EDA is investing…
Clay Higgins, R- La., has introduced legislation to “authorize the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to terminate certain contracts on the basis of detrimental conduct to the National Flood Insurance Program.” Clay Higgins, 572 Cannon House Office Building, Washington, DC 20515; 202/ 225-2031; or in district offices at Chase Bldg., 600…
Grace Napolitano, D- California, issued the following news release:. Grace F. Napolitano, Raul M. Grijalva, Jared Huffman, and Susie Lee introduced H.R. 4099, the Large Scale Water Recycling Project Investment Act, to create a water recycling grant program for large-scale projects in California and the other sixteen western states. “Severe drought is becoming the…
