President Obama’s 2012 budget proposal hit today. Here it is. And here’s the WSJ’s main story.

As far as health goes, HHS is funded at $79.9 billion in discretionary spending. That’s a hair over 2010’s $79.8 billion.

The budget includes a two-year doc fix, which will kick the Medicare reimbursement formula issue down the road a bit. The one-year doc fix under which we’re operating now passed Congress in December. “We need to have a longer-term conversation with Congress on what happens after 2014,” HHS head Kathleen Sebelius said at a press conference today.

The budget proposes funding NIH at $31.8 billion, and the FDA at $2.7 billion (in budget authority, plus $4.4 billion in program funding). Both of those are slightly higher than 2010 levels. Funding for the CDC, however, is proposed at $5.9 billion, down from $6.5 billion.

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