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June 2009

NLIRH meets with HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius

June 29, 2009

On Friday, June 26th, 2009, NLIRH, along with other advocacy organizations, met with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and her staff regarding the status of reproductive health care in health care reform and her commitment to reproductive health care issues. NLIRH submitted its priorities for health care reform to senior HHS staff members. To read NLIRH's priorities for health care reform, please click here.

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Update on Health Care Reform, June 2009

June 1, 2009

Congress has recently launched a formal debate for reforming the ailing U.S. health care system. A Senate committee is currently considering a comprehensive bill backed by Democrats and the Obama administration. In the House, hearings on the Tri Committee Proposal, a single health care reform bill, are scheduled for this week. Both chambers are striving to vote on bills before the August recess in order that the conference committee can negotiate a compromise and send it to President Obama by October. Read more »

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