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2008

• Major Changes Ahead in State Medicaid Policy
  Report explains state choices under federal Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (3/20/08)

2005

• Medicaid Services at Risk (10/7/05)
• House Medicaid Cuts Devastating for Americans with Mental Illnesses, Say Advocates (3/17/05)
• Bazelon Center Applauds Senate Rejection of “Irresponsible” Medicaid Cuts (3/17/05)
• Bazelon Mental Health Policy Reporter: A Chilly Reception (2/4/05)

2004

• Healthcare Advocates Criticize DC Medicaid Proposal (10/13/04)
• Proposed Rule Threatens Services in DC (10/7/04)
• Bazelon Mental Health Policy Reporter: Senate Passes Family Opportunity Act (5/6/04)
• Bazelon Mental Health Policy Reporter: Senate Budget Resolution Advances Without Medicaid Cuts (3/24/04)

2003

• Advocates Call for Better Reporting on J.K. Reforms (11/24/03)
• Bazelon Center Mental Health Policy Reporter: For Once, Advocates Welcome Inaction (11/20/03)
• Report: Medicaid Proposals Pose Threat to Mental Health Safety Net; Individuals Harmed and States at Risk of Later Increased Costs (6/6/03)
• Children’s Mental Health, Substance Abuse Issues Not Identified (5/1/03)
• Parents Give Up Custody of Children for Mental Health Services, Says New Government Report (4/21/03)
• Suit Against Nation's Largest Child Welfare System Settled with Commitment to Reform (3/17/03)
• Public Sector Comments on Bush Medicaid Proposal (3/12/03)
• Bazelon Center Statement on President Bush's Medicaid Reform Proposal (2/24/03)
• Parents: New York Children’s Mental Health System Fails Kids (2/11/03)
• Court Decision Establishes Right to Services for People with Mental Disabilities in Nursing Homes (2/3/03)
• Arizona Governor Boosts JK Reforms (1/31/03)

2002

• States Failing to Meet Children’s Mental Health Needs (11/22/02)
• Advocacy Group Presses for Congressional Action for Children with Mental Disabilities (9/30/02)
• Public Interest Groups and National Law Firm File Suit Against Nation's Largest Child Welfare System (7/18/03)
• Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law Calls on States to Protect Consumer Rights (7/01/02)

2001

• Virginia Agrees To Issue Rules Ensuring Access To Community Services For People With Mental Retardation (9/4/01)
• Groundbreaking Reform of Managed Mental Health Care for Children Ends Federal Lawsuit in Arizona (3/20/01)
• Delay in Implementing Health Privacy Rules Would Harm Mental Health Consumers, Advocates Warn (3/20/01)

2000

• Advocates Praise Unprecedented Removal of Federal Support for Mental Health in New Mexico Managed Care Program (10/20/00)
• As Federal Teams Review New Mexico's Medicaid Mental Health Care, New Data Show "Snapshot of Failure"
  (9/5/00)
• HCFA Reinstates Mental Health in New Mexico Medicaid Waiver. Experts' Report is "Damning Indictment" of Managed Mental Health Care for Arizona Children (7/12/00)
• Federal Medicaid Agency Asked to Investigate Data on Salud! Mental Health Services (6/28/00)
• Report Analyzes Problems and Successes in States' Use of Managed Care for Public Mental Health Services (5/22/00)
• New Data Bolster Request to Federal Medicaid Agency Not to Renew New Mexico's Managed Behavioral Care Program (4/24/00)
• New Mexico's Medicaid Managed Behavioral Health Care Program Called So Deficient It Should Not Be Renewed (3/30/00)
• Even With Health Insurance, Many Parents Have to Give up Custody to Get Mental Health Care for Their Child (3/24/00)
• Study Finds Inadequate Monitoring of Pharmacy Benefits by Medicaid Managed Care Programs (2/16/00)