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Even as lawmakers and government officials start to embrace Medicaid, advocates in states are building momentum with a push to get expansion on ballots. Medicaid news comes out of Michigan, Tennessee, Iowa, Ohio, Massachusetts and Texas, as well.
Hospitals, doctors, medical schools, patient-advocacy groups and insurers have filed friends of the court briefs arguing that a ruling in favor of this latest challenge to the health law's constitutionality would “have a devastating impact on doctors, patients, and the American health care system as a whole."
The panel said the government doesn't have to pay insurers the money because Congress had taken action — after the health law's passage — requiring the program to be budget neutral year after year. The program in contention was aimed at enticing insurers into the market with promises of covering their financial risks.
The Youth Risk Behavior Survey, which is given every two years to nearly 15,000 students in high schools in 39 state, did offer some encouraging trends, suggesting that the overall picture for adolescents is a nuanced one.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
Opinion writers focus on mental health and other health issues.
Editorial pages focus on the shrinking of funding for Medicare and Social Security.
Opinion pages focus on the latest efforts to undermine the health law.
Each week, KHN's Shefali Luthra finds interesting reads from around the Web.
Media outlets report on news from California, Illinois, Tennessee, Minnesota, Idaho, Colorado, Texas, Ohio, Maryland and Arizona.
The information supports other research finding the death toll from last September's hurricane far exceeds 64, the official number. In other news, water service on the U.S. island remains spotty.
In a state that prides itself on a less-government-is-better mantra, the findings might reflect changing values: 64 percent think Medicaid should be expanded.
"It looks like costs are stabilizing, but they are still going up at a rate above inflation," said Barbara Gniewek, of PricewaterhouseCoopers. "They are still increasing at an uncontrolled level and are ultimately unsustainable."
Rahul Desikan had just begun the biggest study ever of the genetics of ALS when he himself was diagnosed with the disease. Now he's continuing his research even as the condition takes its toll on his health. In other public health news: cellular recycling, JUUL, fertility treatments, IBM's Watson, gang violence, and living wills.
There were flaws found in the way the study was conducted, as it is hard to clinically test the benefits of any specific diet, but many experts are still putting stock in the findings.
Experts talk about the problems that arise around midlife -- such as health issues, social isolation and financial stress -- that are playing a role in the sharp uptick of suicides the country is seeing in those who are middle-age.
Sales of prescription opioids on so-called cryptomarkets rose faster after 2014 in the U.S. than elsewhere. By July 2016, sales through cryptomarkets in the U.S. represented 13.7 percent of all drug sales.
As more and more states start adding work requirements to their Medicaid programs, this court will decide if they're legal. Medicaid news comes out of Kansas and Iowa, as well.
The measure from Rep. Doris Matsui (D-Calif.) could clarify the intent of the program and define which patients are eligible -- two bones of contention over the program, which requires pharmaceutical companies to give steep discounts to hospitals and clinics that serve high volumes of low-income patients. In other news from Capitol Hill: CHIP funding, an Indian Health Services bill, and gun control.
If the pre-existing conditions provision of the health law is stripped away by an upcoming court case -- which the Justice Department announced last week it will not defend -- it won't just affect people who buy their health care on the health law marketplace. Meanwhile, a group of Democratic lawmakers are demanding more information on the administration's decision, and candidates plan on using it as a talking point in the upcoming midterms.
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