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The president met with the heads of some of the country's biggest drugmakers on Tuesday. He said that they need to lower drug costs, but that he also plans to roll back regulations and help streamline the approval process to make things easier for the industry.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
The Senate Finance Committee was scheduled to vote on HHS nominee Tom Price, but Democrats refused to show as part of a larger campaign to oppose the president's Cabinet choices.
A selection of opinions on health care from around the country.
Outlets report on news from Massachusetts, Georgia, Minnesota, California, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Colorado, Connecticut, Wisconsin and the District of Columbia.
With a president in the White House who is sympathetic toward the anti-vaccination movement, many who had never found a need to do so before are rising up in protest. In other public health news, lung cancer screenings, pinworm medication, strokes, baby-monitoring apps and teething tablets.
Some question, however, whether New Jersey can actually provide the treatment it's mandating because of a lack of beds in the state. In other news, a New Hampshire boy saves his father from an overdose.
A separate bill also sponsored by Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, would roll back a federal rule enacted in the waning weeks of the Obama administration preventing states from withholding federal Title X family-planning funds from Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers.
NPR reports that the hiring pace has not gone up and that new hires are not going to facilities with the longest wait times. In other Veterans Affairs news, the budget deficit at a medical center in Vermont raises questions.
A lawsuit was filed Monday alleging that the three makers of insulin -- Sanofi, Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly -- conspired to increase the price of their product.
The report, released this week but prepared by Obama administration officials, says spending by states and federal government together increased 4.3 percent in 2016. Continued growth could "displace spending on other important programs, or additional taxes or other revenue sources could be required to fund Medicaid," according to the report. Meanwhile, news outlets report on a Fitch analysis of Medicaid's impact on localities and developments in Ohio and Alabama.
Despite promises that people with pre-existing conditions will still be able to get coverage if the health law is replaced, many patients worry about what that will actually look like in terms of their wallets. Other stories also examine the ways repeal may affect Americans across the country.
While they scramble to dismantle and replace the health law, Republican lawmakers are taking a piecemeal approach to rolling back some regulations that insurers claim have driven up premiums. Advocates, however, say the rules protect customers and create better quality of coverage.
Sign up numbers have been tracking slightly ahead of last year's tally in what could possibly be the last chance for customers to enroll under Obamacare.
The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions will vote on Betsy DeVos' nomination to head the Department of Education. In other news, The New York Times looks at her connection to brain centers that experts call questionable.
Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., testified before Congress that stock was offered to all investors at time, but President Donald Trump's pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services was one of fewer than 20 U.S. investors who were invited last year to buy discounted shares of the company. The Senate Finance Committee is expected to vote on Price's nomination on Tuesday.
In 2014, more than 15,000 foreign health care workers, nearly half of them physicians and surgeons, received H-1B visas, which are designed to bring skilled labor into the U.S. Meanwhile, hospitals are scrambling to identify patients who were scheduled to come into the country to receive medical care and will be affected by the ban.
The president has mandated that for every regulation an agency adopts it must get rid of two. Although the industry is praising the move, its consequences on Americans' health could be far reaching.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
A selection of opinions on health care from around the country.
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