{"id":10210,"date":"2019-05-17T17:05:08","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T17:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hsli.org\/?p=10210"},"modified":"2019-05-17T17:05:08","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T17:05:08","slug":"legislative-update-05-17-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/legislative-update-05-17-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Legislative Update: 05\/17\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Federal:<\/p>\n<p>The Congressional Budget Office released its report on a single-payer healthcare system: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbo.gov\/system\/files\/2019-05\/55150-singlepayer.pdf\">Key Design Components and Considerations for Establishing a Single-Payer Health Care System<\/a>. The document addresses such questions as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How would the government administer a single-payer health plan?<\/li>\n<li>Who would be eligible for the plan, and what benefits would it cover?<\/li>\n<li>What role, if any, would private insurance and other public programs have?<\/li>\n<li>Which providers would be allowed to participate, and who would own the hospitals and employ the providers?<\/li>\n<li>How would the system be financed?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/appropriations.house.gov\/news\/press-releases\/appropriations-committee-releases-fiscal-year-2020-labor-hhs-education-funding\">press release<\/a>, the House Appropriations Committee has recommended a $99 billion increase for the Department of Health and Human Services for FY2020, including a $2 billion increase in NIH funding. Major research initiatives include: Alzheimer&#8217;s disease, HIV\/AIDS, and All of Us precision medicine, among others. A first in over 20 years, the bill earmarks money for firearm injury and mortality prevention research.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>State:<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s Under the Dome podcast is &#8220;The HomeStretch: Will the Illinois Legislature Get it All Done?&#8221;\u00a0 You can listen at <a href=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/under-the-dome\/the-home-stretch-will-the-illinois-legislature-get\">https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/under-the-dome\/the-home-stretch-will-the-illinois-legislature-get<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Interested in having permanent daylight savings time?\u00a0 It could happen.\u00a0 Follow bills HB3821 at <a href=\"https:\/\/legiscan.com\/IL\/bill\/HB3821\/2019\">https:\/\/legiscan.com\/IL\/bill\/HB3821\/2019<\/a> and HB3837 at <a href=\"https:\/\/legiscan.com\/IL\/bill\/HB3837\/2019\">https:\/\/legiscan.com\/IL\/bill\/HB3837\/2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal: The Congressional Budget Office released its report on a single-payer healthcare system: Key Design Components and Considerations for Establishing a Single-Payer Health Care System. The document addresses such questions as: How would the government administer a single-payer health plan? Who would be eligible for the plan, and what benefits would it cover? What role,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}