WashingtonWatch.com - Subject: Aging

H.R. 3962, The Affordable Health Care for America Act - Cost per Average Family: $14876.96

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

H.R. 3962 would provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending....

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S. 1796, The America's Healthy Future Act of 2009

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

S. 1796 would provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending....

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H.R. 3617, The Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2009

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 3617 would provide an extension of Federal-aid highway, highway safety, motor carrier safety, transit, and other programs funded out of the Highway Trust Fund pending enactment of a multiyear law reauthorizing such programs....

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S. 1679, The Affordable Health Choices Act

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

S. 1679 would make quality, affordable health care available to all Americans, reduce costs, improve health care quality, enhance disease prevention, and strengthen the health care workforce....

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H.R. 3551, The Senior Investment Protection Act of 2009

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 3551 would protect older Americans from misleading and fraudulent marketing practices, with the goal of increasing retirement security....

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H.R. 3550, The Senior Investor Protections Enhancement Act of 2009

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 3550 would enhance penalties for violations of securities protections that involve targeting seniors....

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S. 1661, The Senior Investment Protection Act of 2009

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

S. 1661 would protect older Americans from misleading and fraudulent marketing practices, with the goal of increasing retirement security....

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S. 1659, The Senior Investor Protections Enhancement Act of 2009

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

S. 1659 would enhance penalties for violations of securities protections that involve targeting seniors....

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S. 1604, The Americans Giving care to Elders (AGE) Act of 2009

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT

S. 1604 would amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide an income tax credit for eldercare expenses....

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H.R. 3293, The Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010 - Cost per Average Family: $6159.54

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 3293 would make appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2010....

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S. 1555, The Office of the National Alzheimer's Project Act

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

S. 1555 would establish the Office of the National Alzheimer's Project....

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S. 1548, The Access to America's Orthopaedic Services Act of 2009

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

S. 1548 would improve research, diagnosis, and treatment of musculoskeletal diseases, conditions, and injuries, to conduct a longitudinal study on aging....

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S. 1522, The Outpatient Mental Health Modernization Act of 2009

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

S. 1522 would amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to stabilize and modernize the provision of partial hospitalization services under the Medicare program....

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H.R. 3355, The Older Driver and Pedestrian Safety and Roadway Enhancement Act of 2009

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 3355 would direct the Secretary of Transportation to carry out a program to improve roadway safety infrastructure in all States to enhance the safety of older drivers and pedestrians....

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H.R. 3286, The Alzheimer's Breakthrough Act of 2009

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 3286 would amend the Public Health Service Act to fund breakthroughs in Alzheimer's disease research while providing more help to caregivers and increasing public education about prevention....

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S. 1492, The Alzheimer's Breakthrough Act of 2009

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

S. 1492 would amend the Public Health Service Act to fund breakthroughs in Alzheimer's disease research while providing more help to caregivers and increasing public education about prevention....

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H.R. 3191, The Positive Aging Act of 2009

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 3191 would amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for integration of mental health services and mental health treatment outreach teams....

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S. 1403, The Strengthen Social Work Training Act of 2009

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

S. 1403 would amend title VII of the Public Health Service Act to ensure that social work students or social work schools are eligible for support under certain programs that would assist individuals in pursuing health careers or for grants for training projects in geriatrics, and it would establish a social work training program....

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H.R. 3109, The HAHPSA 2009

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 3109 would improve access to health care services in rural, frontier, and urban underserved areas in the United States by addressing the supply of health professionals and the distribution of health professionals to areas of need....

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H.R. 3098, The Caring for an Aging America Act of 2009

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 3098 would amend the Public Health Service Act to attract and retain trained health care professionals and direct care workers dedicated to providing quality care to the growing population of older Americans....

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H.R. 3040, The Senior Financial Empowerment Act of 2009

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 3040 would prevent mail, telemarketing, and Internet fraud targeting seniors in the United States, it would promote efforts to increase public awareness of the enormous impact that mail, telemarketing, and Internet fraud have on seniors, and it would educate the public, seniors, their families, and their caregivers about how to identify and combat fraudulent activity....

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H.R. 3001, The Ending LGBT Health Disparities Act

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 3001 would address the health disparities experienced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans, it would eliminate the barriers they face in accessing quality health care, and it would ensure that good health and well-being is accessible to all....

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H.R. 2987, The Cure and Understanding through Research for Alzheimer's Act of 2009

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 2987 would amend the Public Health Service Act to ensure sufficient resources and increase efforts for research at the National Institutes of Health relating to Alzheimer's disease, to authorize an education and outreach program to promote public awareness and risk reduction with respect to Alzheimer's disease (with particular emphasis on education and outreach in Hispanic populations)....

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H.R. 2901, The United States Coast Guard Servicemember Benefits Improvements Act

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 2901 would amend title 14, United States Code, to improve benefits for members of the Coast Guard....

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S. 1262, The Medical Efficiency and Delivery Improvement of Care Act (MEDIC) of 2009

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

S. 1262 would amend title VII of the Public Health Service Act and titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act to provide additional resources for primary care services, it would create new payment models for services under Medicare, and it would expand provision of non-institutionally-based long-term services....

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