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Under the payment program, the federal government each year collects money from insurers in the health law marketplaces who had healthier customers and redistributes the funding to insurers with sicker, more expensive customers. The administration over the weekend suspended the payments, citing a judge's ruling that the program was flawed.
Anti-abortion advocates see the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh as the closest they've come to overturning Roe v. Wade in years, and both sides are braced for a fight.
All eyes are on a handful of senators who could steer the direction of the fight. On the Republican side, there's Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, who have a history of supporting abortion rights, as well as Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, who has thrown a wrench in leadership's proceedings before. On the Democrats' side, there are a red-state lawmakers who are up for re-election and are stuck between a rock and a hard place with the upcoming vote. Meanwhile, outside groups are hitting the ground running almost as soon as Kavanaugh's name left President Donald Trump's lips.
Media outlets take a look at Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's history and his views on hot-button topics. “If there has been a partisan political fight that needed a good lawyer in the last decade, Brett Kavanaugh was probably there," Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said at Kavanaugh’s first confirmation hearing, in 2004.
At the nomination ceremony, Judge Brett Kavanaugh said that his “judicial philosophy is straightforward. A judge must be independent and must interpret the law, not make the law. A judge must interpret statutes as written. And a judge must interpret the Constitution as written, informed by history and tradition and precedent.”
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
Editorial writers look at these and other health issues.
Opinion writers express views about how overturning Roe V. Wade could impact the nation.
Media outlets report on news from Washington, Vermont, Ohio, California, Texas, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Arizona, Oregon and Colorado.
A case study of a man who traveled to Thailand and picked up a strain paints a grim picture of what lays ahead in terms of treatment. The only drugs that worked were expensive and intensive to administer. In other public health news: egg freezing, relationships and health, nutrition, aphasia, Zika, retirement communities, and more.
Although a large number of people who have a substance abuse disorder are in the system, most jails and prisons don't offer medication-assisted treatment. The study's author urges alternatives to incarceration for people with addictions. "We need a response that will ideally prevent people from entering the criminal justice system," he says. News on the epidemic comes out of Tennessee and Massachusetts, as well.
Signature Industrial Services, however, says the decision was nonmedical and a part of a larger reduction in workforce. As bigger companies start relying on smaller firms to fill in worker gaps, issues over expensive health care coverage can become a flash point.
Advocates have been working in several states on the new strategy of taking expansion right to the voters with ballot initiatives. News on Medicaid comes out of Kentucky, Connecticut and Iowa, as well.
Critics, however, say that Planned Parenthood receives less than $100,000 from what was cut. Even some Republicans called the move shortsighted since so little goes to the organization in the first place and removing it from the spending plan could mean less money for things like law enforcement or help for families with children with autism.
Biogen and Eisai announced that the drug slowed the progression of Alzheimer’s disease and reduced the amount of clumps of a protein called beta amyloid that build up in the brains of patients. The data cheered even skeptics that have been burned by decades of failed Alzheimer's drugs. But they did warn about getting too excited, as the study is preliminary.
Government attorneys have asked U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw to grant them more time to bring together about 100 toddlers with parents who may be scattered across the country or the world.
The resolution on the benefits of breast-feeding from the World Health Assembly was expected to pass easily, but U.S. officials resorted to threats after their attempts to water the measure down failed. In the end, Russia stepped in to introduce the resolution.
The upcoming battle over the Supreme Court nominee may prove tricky for Democratic senators who come from more conservative states. “You deserve a senator who doesn’t just talk like he’s from Montana,” President Donald Trump said as he stepped up pressure on one of the senators, Jon Tester, the conservative state’s two-term Democrat. “You deserve a senator who actually votes like he’s from Montana.”
President Donald Trump says that he will make a decision today before a televised event announcing the pick. The four judges on the short-list are Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, Thomas Hardiman and Raymond Kethledge. Kavanaugh was at one point rumored to be the front-runner, but it's unclear if that's still the case.
Trump administration officials said they decided to suspend payments under the program because of a ruling in February from a Federal District Court in New Mexico. The judge tossed out the formula used to calculate payments, finding that it was flawed. Insurers warned that the move will have a detrimental effect on the marketplaces just as the companies are setting premiums for next year.
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