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The House Energy and Commerce Committee on Tuesday heard from Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, who shared his concerns about the scope of the Senate's measure.
Scott Gottlieb has won over many criticis by seeking to widen access to generic drugs, asserting that the agency should play a role in addressing the nation’s opioid epidemic, and announcing plans to tighten regulations on tobacco products. In other news, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) reportedly asked the White House to reconsider Tom Price's departure before the resignation of the secretary of Health and Human Services was announced.
A study finds states that didn't expanded their Medicaid programs under the federal health law saw the percentage of people with unpaid medical bills fall only about half as much as in states that expanded. Also, a plan to reform Michigan's auto insurance could backfire on the Medicaid program, and questions are raised about Kentucky officials' attempts to keep documents private dealing with their efforts to revamp the state's Medicaid program.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee tucked the request into the bill to reauthorize the Children's Health Insurance Program.
Democrats oppose Republicans' efforts to scrap the Affordble Care Act’s prevention fund, which has been criticized as a "slush fund," and don't like the GOP's proposal to remove lottery winners from state Medicaid programs. Meanwhile, states are bracing for the impact if the money is not renewed.
Despite the push by Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) to revive the stalled Republican Graham-Cassidy legislation, Senate leaders and committees have not given any hints that they expect the measure to come up again soon.
“It’s very hard for a regulator to deny those rate increases when we can take a look at their bottom line and can tell they can’t continue if they can’t keep their head above water,” said Mike Kreidler, Washington State’s insurance commissioner and a supporter of the health law. Meanwhile, lawmakers are moving forward with bipartisan talks to try to stabilize the marketplace.
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Congress let payments to Disproportionate Share Hospital expire on Sunday, which results in about a $1.1 billion loss for New York's neediest hospitals. Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's office took to Twitter to air grievances over funding for the city's municipal public hospital system.
If the wording for the referendum passes muster, the supporters must still hold public hearings and gather 113,000 signatures to put the measure before the voters.
Roughly half of the organization’s clinics are located in areas that are rural, or are federally designated as medically underserved or health professional shortage areas. In other women's health news: a conservative group urges Congress to vote on a bill to ban abortions after 20 weeks, an appeals court has a change of heart about Missouri abortion restrictions, and more.
Although Congress missed a deadline to renew funding for the popular program that provides health care for children, money won't run out for the states until the end of the year. Officials, however, are already concerned about the impact the uncertainty of it all will have.
Shire says it offered discounts to Medicare Part D plans, but the program refused due to Allergan’s “bundled discounts, exclusive dealing” and other tactics.
The head of the Food and Drug Administration says in a blog post that his agency will provide guidance to drugmakers on how to win approvals for these medications that are especially hard to make. In congressional testimony, he also says the agency supports "right-to-try" legislation that allows people with serious illnesses access to experimental drugs, but he would like the measure to apply only to people with terminal diseases.
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Chief Seema Verma and Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb are two of the top names that keep coming up. But others -- like Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin and former Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal -- are also in the mix.
“Altria, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco, Lorillard, and Philip Morris USA intentionally designed cigarettes to make them more addictive,” one ad will say. Another reads: “More people die every year from smoking than from murder, AIDS, suicide, drugs, car crashes, and alcohol, combined.” In other public health news: the importance of body clocks, help getting sober and children with anxiety.
Only smaller facilities qualify for Medicaid payments under a 1965 law that was intended to break up large, state-run mental asylums, but state attorneys general are asking Congress, in the midst of a crisis, to expand that. In other news, the National Institutes of Health, noting a lack of evidence on the issue, will begin to study opioids' effects on babies.
Some experts warn not to read too much into the study, which could be a result of too much data dredging. But the authors say it makes sense.
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