President Obama delivers State of the Union
President Obama is delivering his second to last State of the Union this evening, touting that 10 million uninsured Americans now have health insurance, that health care inflation is at its lowest rate in fifty years and his launch of a Precision Medicine Initiative to cure diseases. The full text of the speech can be found here. Following the State of the Union, the president is expected to release the budget in about two weeks. Stay tuned to this blog for the latest appropriations news. Learn more about the White House’s initiatives by meeting with the Obama administration, as well as the 114th congressional members and national experts at NRHA’s 26th annual Rural Health Policy Institute Feb. 3-5 in D.C. Register here today.