The National League for Nursing's core values of caring, integrity, diversity, and excellence compel civic engagement in shaping public policies that affect everyone's quality of health and care. The links below lead to documents that can help with understanding the status of and activities relating to the health care reform process in Washington.

Education Summit Presentation

• Wrapping Your Head around Health Reform - 10/1/10 (PPT)

Analyses

• Health Reform Implementation Timeline from the Kaiser Family Foundation - 4/27/10 (PDF)
• Analysis of final Health Care Reform Bills — "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" and the "Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010" — compared to the NLN public policy agenda - 4/9/10 (PDF)
• Review of Senate Finance Committee Health Care Reform Bill (Baucus Bill) - 10/11/09 (PDF)
• Review of H.R. 3200, America's Affordable Health Choices Act (Tri-Committee Bill) - 7/22/09 (PDF)
• Review of the Senate "Affordable Health Choices Act" (Kennedy Bill) - 7/4/09 (PDF)

House

• Letter endorsing H.R. 2754, Nurse Managed Health Clinic Investment Act of 2009 - 5/13/09 (PDF)

Senate

• Letter to Senate Finance Committee commenting on "Expanding Health Care Coverage: Proposals to Provide Affordable Coverage to All Americans" - 5/22/09 (PDF)
• Letter to the Senate Committee on Finance commenting on "Transforming the Health Care Delivery System: Proposals to Improve Patient Care and Reduce Health Care Costs." - 5/15/09 (PDF)
• Letter to Senator Barbara Mikulski on Title VIII Reauthorization to integrate into health reform legislation- 5/5/09 (PDF)
• Letter from the Federation of Associations of Schools of the Health Professions (FASHP) to the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions regarding health care reform - 3/27/09 (DOC)
• Testimony of the NLN to the Senate Finance Committee on "Workforce Issues in Health Care Reform: Assessing the Present and Preparing for the Future" - 3/24/09 (PDF)
• Letter to Senate Finance Committee commenting on "S. 3408, the Comparative Effectiveness Research Act of 2008" - 9/10/08 (PDF)

House/Senate

• Letter to extend Medicare's support for nursing education to cover the costs of graduate nursing education - 6/17/2009 (PDF)
• Letter urging congressional leadership to include public health and prevention as essential elements of health reform - 5/13/09 (PDF)
• Letter requesting congressional hearing on disparities in health status and services - 4/15/09 (PDF)