Aetna Reports Revenue Up As Medicare, Medicaid Plans Perform Well
But the insurer lowered its forecast because of membership declines in commercial policies and losses from its business on the health law marketplaces.
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Senators Release Bipartisan Plan To Revamp Medicare Coverage For Chronic Diseases
Treating chronic diseases accounts for 86 percent of the nation's health care spending so the senators' efforts to make Medicare policy more efficient could help both the patient and the budget. Also, federal officials are temporarily blocking more insurers from automatically switching customers to Medicare.
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Call To Address High Drug Prices Threatens Passage Of Cures Bill
“There is no justification for moving forward with legislation that provides substantial benefits to the drug industry without asking for something in return," liberal groups wrote to the House Energy and Commerce Committee. It's unlikely, though, that Republicans would agree to such additions.
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Pepsi Joins Effort to Make TB Medication Sweeter And Easier To Swallow For Kids
In other pharma news: what would a big election win for Democrats mean for the biotech industry; a Cuban lung-cancer vaccine gets its first U.S. clinical trial; and AstraZeneca halts enrollment into two trials for a head and neck-cancer treatment while it investigates bleeding in some patients.
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Pentagon Paid Millions More Buying EpiPens At Retail Prices
The Defense Department gets a discount on EpiPens dispensed at military treatment facilities and by mail order, but nearly half of its spending was at retail pharmacies where it most recently paid an average of $509 for EpiPen and $528 for EpiPen Jr two-packs. In total, the Pentagon paid about $54 million more than it should have from 2009 to 2016.
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Clinton Promises To Fix Obamacare If She Wins, But Her Proposals Face Long Odds In Congress
The candidate's suggestions to improve the health law are anathema to congressional Republicans.
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Governor Suggests Rebate Plan As Minn.’s Exchange Crisis Fans Political Tensions
Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton proposes a state-funded rebate to help offset the spiking premiums facing the state's residents. Media outlets also report on developments in Maryland, Connecticut and California.
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Dwindling Choices In Health Law Marketplace May Be Trickier Issue Than Spiking Premiums
Subsidies provide a safety net for most customers, but there's not a backup plan if insurers completely pulling out of the marketplace. Meanwhile, President Barack Obama paints a sunny picture of his signature law in the face of negative news about the premiums.
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First Edition: October 28, 2016
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
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Viewpoints: Tweaks To Help Obamacare; Critical Moment For The ACA’s Marketplaces
A selection of opinions on the Affordable Care Act from around the country.
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Longer Looks: Dr. Death; The Artificial Pancreas; And ‘Election Anxiety’
Each week, KHN's Shefali Luthra finds interesting reads from around the Web.
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State Highlights: Anthem Expected To Confirm Plan To Expand With IT-Hub In Ga.; Pa. Offers Draft Rules On Medical Marijuana
Outlets report on health news from Georgia, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Illinois, Ohio, Massachusetts, Florida, Arizona and California.
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Medicaid Health Plan In Massachusetts Stops Taking New Members After Financial Losses
Neighborhood Health Plan, a subsidiary of Partners HealthCare, has lost $241 million since 2014. Meanwhile, a new study in Maryland finds that the Medicaid program spends twice as much on enrollees with diabetes than those who don't have the condition.
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Public Health Roundup: Benefit Of Hookworms; Cholesterol Tests For Babies; And Doctors Defend Pelvic Exams
Media outlets also report on cancer-causing heavy metal and tumors that grow on fetuses in the womb.
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Nonprofit Groups, With U.S. And British Backing, To Test Infecting Mosquitos With Bacteria
The experiment will take place in cities in Brazil and Colombia over two to three years. Also, the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the Zika virus is in the U.S. to stay.
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HIV’s Patient Zero Mythology Debunked
New genomic sequencing research shows that the virus has been in America a lot longer than previously thought.
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VA’s Shift In Tactics On Painkillers Pays Off
Three years after an investigation exposed a dramatic rise in the number of opiate prescriptions at the agency, it has reduced the number by nearly 25 percent.
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The One Controversial Scientist Behind VA’s Refusal To Cover Agent Orange-Related Sickness
Alvin Young's nickname is Dr. Orange and he thinks veterans who complain about sickness that they think is related to a toxic herbicide used in the Vietnam War are simply “freeloaders,” making up ailments to “cash in” on the VA’s compensation system. And he's also the one expert the military relies on to decide whether to compensate veterans.
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Patients Terrified, Powerless As Doctors Flee Puerto Rico By The Hundreds
Up to 700 doctors are expected to leave Puerto Rico this year alone, double the number from two years ago.
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As Lawmakers Eye Drug Price Measures, Drugmakers And Insurers Point Blame At Each Other For Rising Costs
Meanwhile, in California, Bernie Sanders rallies for Proposition 61, a ballot initiative that would place some limits on prescription drug prices. And pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts' dealings with pharmaceutical companies are under scrutiny by federal investigators.
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