Corporate Roundtable Legislative Update

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Corporate Roundtable Legislative Update

• Paul Bonta
• Associate Executive Director
• Policy and Government Affairs
• ACPM
• February 24, 2012

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• ACPM 2012 Legislative Priorities
• 2012 Congressional Agenda
• Impact of Elections on 2012 Agenda
• Future Funding Outlook
• Signs of Regular Order?

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2012 Legislative Priorities

• Federal funding for PMR training programs
• Protect the PPHF
• Improve access/utilization of clinical preventive
  services

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Federal funding for PMR

• Engage Legislative branch officials
• Engage Executive branch officials (OMB)
• Engage Administrative branch officials (HHS)

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Federal Funding for PMR

• Outcome
• New initiative to expose preventive medicine
  residents to evidence-based integrative medicine
  curricula

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Protect the PPHF

• Work with likeminded stakeholder organizations
• Work with national public health and
  prevention-focused coalitions

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Protect the PPHF

• Outcome
• Congressional Record
• February 16, 2012
• As I said, Americans get it. Here is a
• letter from the American College of
• Preventive Medicine urging us to oppose
• taking any money, to diverting
• any money from the Prevention and
• Public Health Fund. - Sen. Tom Harkin

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Improve access/utilization of clinical preventive
services

• Educate partner groups in organized medicine
• Educate officials at HHS
• Educate consumers

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Improve access/utilization of clinical preventive
services

• Outcome
• Webinar series with National Forum for Heart
  Disease and Stroke Prevention
• Partnership with Careverge

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ACPM Policy Activities Require

• Collaborate and reach out to stakeholder
  organizations
• Collaborate, participate and convene national
  coalitions
• Engage across all branches of govt
• Legislative process
• Administrative rule making process

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2012 Congressional Agenda

• Defined by 2012 elections
• No substantive policy actions after June 12
• Stymied by entrenched partisanship

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2012 Elections

• Campaigns to begin to overshadow congressional
  work
• Parties in Congress work with respective nominee
  on party platform
• District office over Washington office

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No Substantive Policy Actions After June 2012

• First lesson in Congress is still alive and well
• Need to campaign trumps need to legislate

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Stymied by Entrenched Partisanship

• The Democrats seem to be basically nicer to
  people, but they have demonstrated time and again
  that they have the management skills of celery.
  Theyre the kind of people whod stop to help you
  change a flat, but would somehow manage to set
  your car on fire. I would be reluctant to entrust
  them with a Cuisinart, let alone the economy

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Contd

• Republicans, on the other hand, would know how to
  fix your tire, but they wouldnt bother to stop
  because theyd want to be on time for Ugly Pants
  Night at the Country Club.
• Dave Berry

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Impact of Elections on 2012 Agenda
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Impact of Elections on 2012 Agenda

• Campaigns
• Campaigns
• Campaigns

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Impact of Elections on 2012 Agenda

• GOP convention Aug. 2012
• Dem convention Sept. 2012

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Future Funding Outlook?

• 3 ways to increase revenue
• Taxes
• Spending cuts
• Improved economy
• Sequester?
• Continued divided government?

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Signs of Regular Order?

• Appropriators and authorizers want their mojo
  back

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Signs of Regular Order?

• Appropriators are voicing opposition to a
  continued ban on earmarks
• Authorizers are actively working to move several
  major reauthorization bills
• PDUFA - Prescription Drug User Fee Act
• MDUFMA - Medical Device User Fee and
  Modernization Act
• ADUFA - Animal Drug User Fee Act
• GDUFA - Generic Drug User Fee Act

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• Questions?
• Paul Bonta
• Associate Executive Director
• Policy and Government Affairs
• ACPM
• pbonta_at_acpm.org
• 202-466-2044