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Dismantling Obamacare is job one for the new GOP-controlled Congress and the incoming Trump administration, but lawmakers are wrestling with various strategies to achieve this goal without disrupting the individual insurance market or upending some of the measure's popular provisions.
With Republicans controlling both houses of Congress and the presidency, the policies advanced by the Obama administration will be on the chopping block. Chief among them will be President Barack Obama's signature health law as well as possible changes to other federal health programs.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
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Outlets report on health news from Texas, Michigan, Minnesota, Kansas, Hawaii, Illinois and California.
Scientists are trying to fix the imbalance, but many obstacles stand in the way. In other public health news, people are most likely to die between Christmas and New Year's and no one really knows why; a medical mystery is solved; scientists find a new way to identify a concussion; and mumps cases are on the rise.
There are still a few flaws with it -- such as that it appears to work only against one of the two most common strains of the Ebola virus -- but scientists and leaders are calling it a "game-changer" in fighting the vicious killer.
A Washington Post investigation looks at the practice of the industry hiring the very people who had designed ways to curb the opioid epidemic. Meanwhile, hundreds of Americans are dying unnecessarily because they can't get overdose medication and a company that produces kits to test for fentanyl simply re-branded an old product prone to errors to capitalize on law enforcement's demand.
The Des Moines Register reports that officials from the companies have told the state that an extra $127.7 million in state and federal money is not enough. News outlets also report on other Medicaid developments in California, Montana, Pennsylvania and Kansas.
Such programs offer supervised exercise and counseling to help decrease the risk of future heart attacks, but some patients can't afford the co-pays and others live too far from such centers.
Rep. Tom Price's stock trades while he was serving in the House included Amgen Inc., Bristol Meyers Squibb Co., Eli Lilly & Co., Pfizer Inc. and Aetna Inc.
USA Today reports on the impact rural hospitals have already experienced in states that did not expand Medicaid, and on the expected challenges facilities will face nationwide with future health care changes. The Connecticut Mirror looks at how those anticipated change could also affect the uninsured.
The House Democratic leader wants lawmakers to "continue the drumbeat" back in their districts about how much the health law benefits their constituents. Meanwhile, Donald Trump doesn't need Congress to be able to end the subsidies paid to insurers under the health law -- and it could throw the market into chaos if he chooses to take that route.
NOTE TO READERS: KHN's First Edition will not be published Dec. 26-Jan. 2. Look for it again in your inbox Jan. 3. Here's today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
A selection of opinions on health care from around the country.
Each week, KHN's Shefali Luthra finds interesting reads from around the Web.
Outlets report on health news from North Carolina, Washington, California, Missouri, Minnesota, Massachusetts, Virginia, Texas, Illinois and Pennsylvania.
The robotic babies are meant to show young students how tough parenthood is, but research finds that they have little to no effect on teenagers' beliefs. Also in the news, discrimination and blood pressure; antibiotics and ear infections; lead in lipstick; brain injuries; and more.
Cancer treatment can destroy a patient's enjoyment of food, which can be dangerous if it causes them to stop eating entirely. Now doctors are teaming up with chefs to try to combat that side effect. In other news, women are getting unnecessary mastectomies at troubling rates and a body-builder chronicles her struggle with ovarian cancer.
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