Health Archives

Alerts

• Federal Legislation Threatens Health Care Privacy (07/26/06)
• House Budget Lacks Adequate Funds for Health and Human Services (5/8/06)
• Join Thousands of Americans in a National Call-in to Protect our Health Care (4/28/06)
• Contact Your Senators Now to Oppose Destructive HIMMA Bill (S.1955) (4/5/06)
• Budget Update – Senate Budget Bill Adds $7 Billion to Domestic Discretionary Funding; House to Act Next (3/22/06)
• Ask Your Senators to Support Increased Discretionary Funding for Human Needs and Social Service Programs (3/13/06)
• Summoning all Social Service Providers and Professionals! (3/3/06) 
• Protect Consumers: Ask Your Representative to Co-Sponsor the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (12/6/05) 
• Congressional Resolution on Social Worker Safety (11/8/05) 
• Contact Your Members of Congress During their August Recess (8/4/05)
• Contacts Needed NOW to all Senators: Oppose Association Health Plans (S.406) (8/4/05)
• Federal Appropriations: Where the Rubber Meets the Road (7/8/05)
• Ask Your Senator to Support Advance Directives' Legislation (April 14, 2005)
• Call Your Senators Now to Protect Medicaid (March 11, 2005)
• House Budget Committee Alert (March 1, 2005)
• Tell Congress to Reject Bush Medicaid Budget Cuts (February 8, 2005)
• Health Legislation Awaits Congressional Action (September 27, 2004)
• Contacts Needed NOW to all Senators Opposing the Small Business Health Fairness Act (S.545) (February 19, 2004)
• Immediate Action Needed to Oppose the Medicare Prescription Drug Conference Report (November 19, 2003)
• Support Changes in Medicare Prescription Drug Legislation (September 2, 2003)
• Support Increased Funding for HIV/AIDS Programs (August 28, 2003)
• Contacts Needed NOW to all Senators Opposing the Small Business Health Fairness Act (S.545) (August 15, 2003)
• Support Changes in Medicare Prescription Drug Legislation (July 11, 2003)
• Contact Your Governor Immediately to Oppose Medicaid Block Grant (May 29, 2003)
• Phone Calls, Faxes & E-mails Needed NOW to all House Members Supporting Medicaid FMAP Increase on Tax Cut Bill (May 19, 2003)
• Phone Calls, Faxes & E-mails Needed NOW to all House Members Opposing the Small Business Health Fairness Act (H.R. 660) (May 7, 2003)
• Urgent! Phone Calls & Emails Needed NOW to Members of the House Education and Workforce Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations Opposing H.R. 660, the Small Business Health Fairness Act (AHPs) (April 7, 2003)
• Urge the President and Congress to Support Meaningful Medicare Reform & Prescription Benefits (April 3, 2003)
• Action Needed to Oppose the Small Business Health Fairness Act (February 28, 2003)
• States Need Real Medicaid Help! Support an Increase in the FMAP (February 13, 2003)
• Senate & House Cosponsors Needed for the Clinical Social Work Medicare Equity Act of 2003 (February 7, 2003)
• National Social Worker Call in Day (Novenber 12, 2002)
• Contact Your U.S. Senators and U.S. Representative to Urge Congressional Action on New HIPAA Medical Privacy Regulations (October 16, 2002)
• Call Senator Daschle and Members of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee and Urge Them to Bring the Family Violence Prevention Act to the Floor! (October 4, 2002)
• Contact Your Senators and Urge Them to Support a Voluntary Prescription Benefit Plan for All Medicare Beneficiaries! (July 25, 2002)
• Call Your Senators and Urge Them to Vote to Amend the Medicare Homebound Rule That Imprisons People with Disabilities in Their Own Homes! (July 16, 2002)
• Urge Your Member of Congress to Support Concurrent Resolution 99 (June 13, 2002)
• Protest New Modifications by HHS to the Medical Privacy Rule! (April 16, 2002)
• Quick House Contacts Needed in Support of the Patients' Bill of Rights! (July 24, 2001)
• Quick Senate Contacts Needed in Support of the Patients' Bill of Rights! (June 20, 2001)

Updates and Letters

• Administration Acts on Health Information Technology (HIT) (10/10/06)
• Emergency Contraception Drug OTC Status Finally Approved (9/1/06)
• Victory - Enzi’s HIMMA Bill Goes Down in Senate Defeat (5/15/06)
• Cover the Uninsured Week Update (4/10/06)
• Need to Protect Medicaid (October 14, 2005) 
• Tell Congress to Protect Medicaid Beneficiaries (August 3, 2005)
• Social Workers Oppose Changes to FMLA (June 27, 2005)
• NASW Comments on Medicare Rx Regs (October 5, 2004)
• Senate Stalls Small Business Health Fairness Act (H.R.660/S.545) (October 9, 2003)
• Update on FY04 Labor, HHS, and Education Appropriations Bills (September 23, 2003)
• NASW Seeks Changes in Medicare Prescription Drug Legislation (July 9, 2003)
• Medicare Reform (April 3, 2003)
• Sign On Letter on the Physician Fee Schedule Cuts (October 7, 2002)
• Sign-On Letter for Physician Fee Schedule Cuts (September 13, 2002)
• Sign-On Letter on the Federal Medicaid Matching Rate (July 27, 2002)
• NASW Supports a Fair and Principled Patients Bill of Rights (August 20, 2001)

Position Papers

• Submitted to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Hearing on Psychological Trauma and Terrorism: Assuring That Americans Receive the Support They Need (September 2002)
• Faces of Aging: Personal Struggles to Confront the Long-Term Care Crisis Before the United States Senate Special Committee on Aging (September 26, 2002)
• Major Prescription Drug Proposals in the Senate: A Side by Side Comparison (July 2002) (pdf format)
• Improving the Cost of Prescription Drug Coverage for Seniors (July 2002) (pdf format)
• Submitted to the Special Committee on Aging United States Senate Hearing Patients in Peril: Critical Shortages in Geriatric Care (February 27, 2002)
• NASW Priorities for Health Care (January 2002)
• NASW Principles and Standards to be Included in Privacy Legislation (March 19, 1999)

Additional Resources

• Overview of HIPAA Administrative Simplification Provisions (January 2002)
• Consent, Authorization, and Notice under HIPAA Privacy Regulations (November 2001)
• What Social Workers Should Know about the HIPAA Privacy Regulations (July 2001)