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We Must Urge Congress to Protect Access to Medicaid, Patient Care and 24/7 Hospital Services
Congressional lawmakers are heading home for a two-week district work period after both the Senate and House passed a revised budget resolution for fiscal year 2025.
AHA Urges Congress to Provide Support to Help Minimize Further Fallout from Change Healthcare Attack
We are now on day 13 of the crisis caused by the recent cyberattack on Change Healthcare and its impacts on hospitals, health systems and patients around the country. We urgently need Congress's support to help minimize further fallout from this attack.
As part of AHA Advocacy Day, hospital leaders urge Congress to protect patient access to care
More than 150 hospital and health system leaders March 4 participated in an AHA Advocacy Day briefing in Washington, D.C., to get the latest updates on key issues before meeting with lawmakers and their staff on Capitol Hill.
Senate Passes Revised Budget Resolution
Early this morning, the Senate by a vote of 51 to 48 passed its revised budget resolution for fiscal year 2025 with Sens. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, voting with Democrats in opposition.
House passes continuing resolution to fund government through September, extend key health care provisions
The House of Representatives March 11 voted 217-213 to pass a continuing resolution to fund the federal government through Sept. 30.
As House and Senate consider separate budget resolutions, AHA urges Congress to ‘take seriously the impact of reductions in health care programs, particularly Medicaid’
House Republicans Feb. 12 released a budget resolution for fiscal year 2025 focusing on the Trump administration's agenda on border security, defense, energy and taxes.
Administration Rescinds Memo Pausing Federal Grants, Loans and Other Financial Assistance Programs
The White House Office of Management and Budget Jan. 29 rescinded a memo it issued two days earlier directing federal agencies to temporarily pause federal grants, loans and other financial assistance programs implicated by President Trump’s recent executive orders.
AHA issues statement on the 2024 election
"The AHA and America’s hospitals and health systems congratulate President-elect Trump and look forward to working with him and his incoming Administration to make progress on the many critical issues facing the health care field and the patients and communities we proudly serve," said AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack after several media outlets called the election for former President Donald Trump.
AHA’s Hughes discusses advocacy priorities and key messages for Capitol Hill
Stacey Hughes, AHA’s executive vice president for government relations and public policy, discussed key messages that hospital and health system leaders should share with their lawmakers on Capitol Hill this week.
Federal Public Policy and Legislative Solutions for Improving Maternal Health Sept. 2024
At the federal level, several legislative initiatives specific to maternal mortality have been enacted. Several other initiatives have been introduced in Congress the last year.