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There's a razor-thin margin of error in the Senate to get to a "yes" next week on the chamber's version of the health care bill. Not even Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is certain about its chances. Meanwhile, public opposition to the bill continues to rise.
The legislation has been drafted mostly behind closed doors, and for many Thursday will be the first they see any details of it.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
A selection of opinions on health care from around the country.
Editorial writers examine a range of topics related to health system reform.
Media outlets report on news from Massachusetts, Missouri, Michigan, Georgia, Kansas, Illinois, Connecticut, Washington, Minnesota and California.
The device "is not the second coming of Jesus Christ,” said David Spencer, the president of the company that makes the device. "But it gives the surgeons a chance where maybe there wasn’t a chance before.” In other public health news: the human genome, Zika, back pain, suicide, election stress and more.
A New York coroner offers local students a stark look at the graphic and disturbing ramifications of the opioid crisis. Meanwhile, a study finds a spike in hospital visits because of the epidemic.
Each day in the United States, an average of 3.5 people under the age of 18 are shot to death and another 15.5 are treated in a hospital emergency department for a gunshot wound.
The case centered around whether plaintiffs residing outside of the state who claim they were harmed by the company's blood thinner could join in a lawsuit brought by California residents. "It will extremely limit the notion that large companies can be sued by anyone, anywhere," said one lawyer.
S&P Global Ratings did not downgrade the state's ratings, but criticized the legislature's decision to cut funds by nearly $2 billion while expecting more people to qualify for the program. Meanwhile, officials in Illinois are still seeking to get beyond an impasse on Medicaid payment formulas for doctors, hospitals and other health care providers.
The members of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS write that the administration "pushes legislation that will harm people living with HIV and halt or reverse important gains made in the fight against this disease." The White House disputes the former advisers' characterizations. "Well, I mean, respectfully, the president cares tremendously about that and the impact it has," Press Secretary Sean Spicer said.
In Washington state, an insurer that was going to pull out of the exchanges reversed course after "repeated discussions" with state officials. And in Iowa, a company that had been considering leaving the individual marketplace announced it will stay in it.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has emerged as a central figure in Republicans' health law efforts and is cautiously embracing a one-time foreign word: compromise. In other news, conservatives have thrown up some red flags on changes to the American Health Care Act, staff departures uproot the Senate's ambitious agenda, health care groups that have been shut out of the process take their message directly to the American people, and more.
The group, which is working in secret, has reportedly asked the Congressional Budget Office to score a proposal that would cut the House bill's growth rate for Medicaid funding.
Senate Democrats are lobbing a variety of criticisms at the health law efforts by colleagues on the other side of the aisle, but a consistent theme is that Republicans don't like their own bill.
As Republicans race toward a self-imposed deadline to vote on their legislation, Democrats take steps to slow down work in the Senate.
Republican leaders are still pushing to get a vote before Congress goes on recess for the July Fourth holiday. But it's unclear whether they have enough "yeses" to pass the legislation.
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A selection of opinions on health care from around the country.
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