"[T]he U.S. House Appropriations Committee released its draft fiscal year 2016 Labor, Health and Human Services (LHHS) funding bill, which includes substantial cuts to [CMS] and the [DOL]. The bill also appears designed to block several key provisions of the ACA.... Specifically, the bill: [1] Prohibits all funding for Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight (CCIO) programs; [2] Eliminates the Health & Human Services' Agency for Health Research on Quality; [3] Bans use of funds to: [a] Support patient centered outcomes research (rescinding $100 million in funding for the Patient Centered Outcomes Institute (PCORI)), [b] Implement, further, enforce or advance the Navigators program, or [c] Carry out Title X of PHS -- the National Family Planning Program."

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