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The Senate and House must reconcile their two versions, but it looks like the long-held Republican goal of repealing the health law's individual mandate will make it into the final legislation. Meanwhile, a study finds that bipartisan Affordable Care Act fixes that were part of the lure to get Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) to support the tax bill would cut premiums by about 18 percent in 2019.
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The City Council grilled New York City Housing Authority Chairwoman Shola Olatoye over the lead inspection problems, focusing on the long delay between when officials learned of the lapses and when City Hall and the agency acknowledged them publicly for the first time
The Goldwater Rule has long-banned mental health professionals from weighing in on public figures. But experts say the evidence they can gather through public speeches, behavior and tweets is actually more reliable than in-person evaluations. In other news: asthma hot spots, temporary doctors, the ethics of uterine transplants, germs in the International Space Station, and more.
The legislation will ultimately be subject to congressional review, but council members say that any lawmaker who opposes it can expect a strong fight. In other women's health news: the ACLU pushes back against claims that it acted improperly during a case over a pregnant teenage immigrant, and a new study questions the benefits of mammograms.
Ten states and Puerto Rico are part of the national pilot project. A report by the National Governors Association finds that Alaska and Puerto Rico are already seeing substantial improvements. News outlets report on other Medicaid developments from Iowa, Connecticut, Louisiana, Wisconsin and Michigan.
Programs that were put into place before the Trump administration have been cutting times by sometimes more than a year. In other pharmaceutical news: problems with AstraZeneca's blockbuster drug; the Food and Drug Administration requests that a pharma company recall a product that may cause liver injury; sexual harassment allegations involving the founder of biotech's largest hedge fund, and more.
But they also say CVS's plan to buy Aetna is "eminently approvable" by either agency because critics would be unable to come up with a convincing theory to show the deal will harm consumers. Meanwhile, a House Democrat is already calling for a probe of the merger.
But Republicans haven't been as vocal about allocating more money for the crisis, so it's unclear how much will make it into the final legislation.
“It crushes me to think we’re in an environment where kids’ health is up for debate," said Dr. Todd Wolynn, a pediatrician in Pittsburgh. Although the program has enjoyed strong bipartisan support in the past, Congress has been dawdling on renewing funding for the program.
The House and Senate will have to smooth out the differences between their tax bills, including what to do about the health law's individual mandate. Meanwhile, advocates are sounding the alarm over the ways the tax bill will threaten health care for Americans.
Some centrist Republicans only threw support behind the tax bill after they were assured that legislation shoring up the health law marketplace would pass. But the future of the bills don't look certain. Meanwhile, House Speaker Paul Ryan's office said that he made no such promise to help get the fixes through before the end of the year.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
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The geographic disparity in available livers has plagued transplant patients for decades, and has been a source of fierce debate within the community. But critics of the new policy say it doesn't consider liver donation rates. In other public health news: superbugs, vaccinations, cancer, e-cigarettes, ADHD, and more.
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