First Edition: June 26, 2019
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
Archives: Morning Breakouts
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Perspectives: The Science And Economics Of Drugmaking Has Changed, But The Way We Pay For Them Hasn’t
Read recent commentaries about drug-cost issues.
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Pharma Has Made Strides In Offering Cheaper Drugs To Poorer Countries, But The Ground Is Precarious
News outlets report on stories related to pharmaceutical pricing.
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Viewpoints: The Best FDA E-Cig Policies Can Help Adults, Protect Teens; Time To Catch Up With Doctors Granting Risky Vaccine Exemptions
Editorial pages focus on these public health issues and others.
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State Highlights: California Legislature Votes To Restore Individual Mandate; 33 New Measles Cases Reported, Majority In New York
Media outlets report on news from California, New York, Oregon, Missouri, Michigan, Arizona, New Hampshire, Minnesota, Louisiana, Florida, Massachusetts and Ohio.
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Parsing Policy: Trump’s Focus On Hospital Costs Doesn’t Go Far Enough; States That Don’t Expand Medicaid Promote Misery
Opinion writers weigh in on health care policies.
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Florida Governor Approves Money-Saving Bill Eliminating Medicaid Retroactive Eligibility For Another Year
For non-pregnant adults, coverage will only go back to the beginning of the month they apply for Medicaid instead of a 90-day period before they apply. News on Medicaid is also from Georgia.
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Disappointment Surrounding Alzheimer’s Treatment Has Reached Almost Mythical Heights. But Is There A ‘Cabal’ Behind All Those Failures?
For some experts it is increasingly apparent that there is another, more disturbing reason for the tragic lack of progress being made in Alzheimer's research. A group of researchers had been so determined that one approach would work, few tried anything else. In other pharmaceutical news: AbbVie announces $63 billion deal to acquire Allergan, an analysis finds drugmakers often commit to follow-up studies after approval but few of them are new; and more.
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Centene, WellCare Turn To Insurance Regulators For Approval Following Shareholders’ Overwhelming Support Of $17B Merger
Centene and WellCare said more than 99% of their shareholders supported the merger that would cover nearly 22 million people. They are now working to obtain approvals from insurance regulators in 26 states. Other industry news is on: PatientsLikeMe, uBiome Inc., and Highmark Health.
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Provisions Aimed At Boosting Generic-Drug Market, Raising Legal Age For Tobacco Purchases Added To Senate Health Care Package
The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee will mark up the overall package on Wednesday. In other news from Capitol Hill, Democrats seek answers from the Department of Agriculture about climate change research, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) will meet with 9/11 first responders to talk about the victims' fund.
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‘Access Is Hanging By A Thread’: Judge Kicks Fight Over Missouri’s Last-Remaining Clinic To An Administrative Panel
St. Louis Circuit Judge Michael Stelzer ruled that the clinic has not yet exhausted its options outside of court to handle the dispute over its license to perform abortions. The judge directed Planned Parenthood to take the issue up with the Administrative Hearing Commission, a panel that typically handles disputes between state agencies and businesses or individuals. Abortions are allowed to continue at the clinic until Friday.
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Judge OKs Oklahoma’s $85M Settlement With Teva That Includes Agreement Not To Promote Opioids In State
“The resources and terms of the agreement will help abate the ongoing crisis the state is facing,” state Attorney General Mike Hunter (R) said in a statement released after the hearing. The deal does not release Teva from any separate claims that might be brought by individual cities or counties.
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Court Clears Way For Transgender Kansans To Change Birth Certificates To Reflect Their Sex
Kansas becomes the 48th state to allow these birth certificate changes. A lawsuit filed by three transgender Kansas residents and the Kansas Statewide Transgender Education Project alleged that state policy against changing the gender on birth records violated the equal protection and due process clauses of the U.S. Constitution.
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Could Aggression Detector Software Identify Potential Mass Shooters In Schools Before They Strike?
In the wake of devastating school shootings, more officials are open to such out-of-the-box thinking as installing aggression detectors in their hallways. But ethical questions remain. In other public health news: genetic tests, arsenic, microbes, autism, wildfires, and more.
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Some Of Worst-Run Nursing Homes In Country Are Taxpayer-Backed With Mortgages Insured By HUD
The number of taxpayer-backed nursing homes with serious deficiencies highlights the federal government’s spotty history of monitoring for-profit facilities. The Department of Housing and Urban Development's mortgage insurance program is a vital financial lifeline to the nursing home industry, but some people contend that the program must do more to ensure better business practices.
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Pinning Democratic Candidates Down On Where Exactly They Stand On ‘Medicare For All’ Likely To Be Big Moment In Debate
Twenty Democratic presidential hopefuls are slated to take the stage in Miami for highly anticipated debates that will stretch over Wednesday and Thursday. Health care, an emerging dividing issue for the candidates, is expected to feature prominently during the nights' arguments. In other 2020 election news, Maine's House speaker, Sara Gideon, announces her candidacy against Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), who received criticism over her stance on then-nominee Justice Brett Kavanaugh. And Beto O'Rourke proposes a war tax to fund veterans' health care.
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Supreme Court To Hear ‘Bait-And-Switch’ $12B ACA Suit From Insurers Who Claim They Were Hurt By Risk Corridor Program
The health care law established so-called risk corridors meant to help insurance companies cope with the risks they took on when they decided to participate in the marketplaces. The law’s drafters hoped that payments into the program would offset payments out. However, losses substantially outpaced gains. The government was supposed to make up much of the difference, but Congress later enacted a series of appropriation riders that seemed to bar the promised payments.
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Trump’s Executive Order To Increase Transparency For Health Care Costs May Seem Intuitive, But Research Suggests It Could Backfire
President Donald Trump released an executive order on Monday that would compel insurers, doctors and hospitals to be more transparent about health care costs, which have always been a closely guarded secret in the industry. But, because of the peculiarities of health care, it's not clear that the move will have the intended effect. What could happen is that once companies know what their competitors are charging, they could all raise their prices in concert.
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Hundreds Of Detained Immigrant Children Moved Following Disturbing Reports Of Inhumane, Unsanitary Conditions
The children had been detained for weeks without access to soap, clean clothes or adequate food, The Associated Press found in a damning investigation. “There is a stench that emanates from some of the children because they haven’t had an opportunity to put on clean clothes and to take a shower," said Elora Mukherjee, the director of the Immigrants’ Rights Clinic at Columbia Law School. It is not clear where the children have been moved, and some attorneys say the possibilities may not be an improvement. In related news, HHS Secretary Alex Azar says the rhetoric surrounding the issue is "outrageous" while Democrats' infighting is threatening to derail emergency funding to the border.
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First Edition: June 25, 2019
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
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