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The analysis by The Associated Press and Avalere Health also finds that insurers are starting to come back to the marketplace.
The 1997 Flores settlement has helped govern the treatment of minors in federal custody for the past 20 years, and has survived numerous court challenges. The Trump administration, however, is proposing a new rule that would lift the 20-day limit established in Flores.
Abortion rights was in the spotlight at Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s third day of hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Emails revealed Kavanaugh talking about the Supreme Court overturning Roe V. Wade, which was in contrast to his defense of precedent earlier in the week. Kavanaugh, though, said that he was reflecting “an accurate description of all legal scholars,” not expressing his own opinion. Meanwhile, the nominee’s use of “abortion inducing drugs” to describe contraception set off alarm bells with abortion rights advocates. Media outlets offer glimpses and insights into the rest of the day, as well.
First Edition: September 7, 2018
Today’s early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
Insulin’s Steep Price Leads To Deadly Rationing
Alec Raeshawn Smith was 23 when diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, and 26 when he died. He couldn’t afford $1,300 per month for his insulin and other diabetes supplies. So he tried to stretch the doses.
The High Cost Of Hope: When The Parallel Interests Of Pharma And Families Collide
Desperate for help in finding a lifesaving drug for a fatal genetic disease, families banded together to fund early research and then worked with drug companies on clinical trials and marketing. Yet, this small patient advocacy group is stunned by pharma’s pricing.
Podcast: KHN’s ‘What The Health?’ Health Policy Goes To Court
In this episode of KHN’s “What the Health?” Julie Rovner of Kaiser Health News, Mary Agnes Carey of Kaiser Health News, Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times and Alice Ollstein of Politico talk about the latest court challenge to the Affordable Care Act, nomination hearings for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and news from the reproductive health front. Plus, Rovner interviews Chad Terhune about the latest KHN/NPR “Bill of the Month” installment.
Listen: The GOP Case Against ACA’s Preexisting Condition Protections Begins
Oral arguments got underway in federal court in Fort Worth, Texas, on Wednesday in the lawsuit brought by 20 Republican states seeking to declare the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional.
Editorial pages focus on these and other health issues.
Opinion writers weigh in on the health problems associated with the opioid epidemic.
Each week, KHN’s Shefali Luthra finds interesting reads from around the Web.
Media outlets report on news from California, New York, Georgia, Texas, Minnesota, Arizona, Ohio, Oregon and Missouri.
The judge is giving the FDA until late in September to finalize warnings that were mandated in 2009.
Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop Settles ‘Unsubstantiated’ Vaginal Egg Health Claims For $145,000
Lawyers in the California consumer protection case said the advertising claims behind the eggs had the potential to “affect women’s health, but Goop said it settled solely over those advertising claims. The eggs — cited for preventing a myriad of vaginal problems — are not defective, Goop added, and two of the three types can still be purchased.
And experts are concerned that the results don’t justify the sacrifice of students’ privacy. In other public health news: genome-editing, lead levels in schools’ drinking water, cancer, sepsis, germs and more.
ProPublica’s investigates Chicago facilities, finding suicidal immigrant children and ones dreaming of escape.
For Pregnant Women, Counting Baby’s Number Of Kicks Can Be Difference Between Life And Death
Campaigns geared toward reducing stillborn deaths impress upon to-be-mothers the importance of the baby’s movements while in the womb.
‘It Was Not Even A Close Call’: Judge Blocks Texas’ ‘Catastrophic’ Fetal Burial Law
U.S. District Judge David Ezra said Texas lawmakers who enacted the legislation — which would require hospitals, abortion clinics and other providers to arrange for the burial or cremation of fetal remains regardless of the patients’ wishes — provided no “viable system” for health care providers to dispose of fetal remains in accordance with the law.
The provision would authorize the government to give grants to groups that focus on addiction and substance-abuse disorders, but the only organization that fits the criteria is the Addiction Policy Forum, an advocacy group funded by PhRMA. In other news on the crisis: opioid taxes, skyrocketing fentanyl deaths, treatment alternatives, insurance coverage and more.
The Justice Department has identified some competition concerns over CVS’ acquisition of Aetna, while sources familiar with the situation say that the Cigna-Express deal could be approved without the companies having to sell off any assets.