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The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, considered a bellwether, shows that the uninsured rate among adults dropped by only about 1 percentage point from 2015 through this July. Meanwhile, Blue Cross Blue Shield asks Congress to preserve a fund some have called a "bailout" for the insurance companies.
The lawmakers are desperate to get the legislation passed. They're even willing to drop the Planned Parenthood fight that has been the main holdup in the Senate. Meanwhile, NARAL targets Marco Rubio over his stance on Zika-related abortions.
Sen. Ron Wyden and Rep. Frank Pallone, both Democrats, are asking the company for more information about whether EpiPen was classified as a "non-innovator" drug or a brand-name drug by the Medicaid program.
Hillary Clinton says she would create of an oversight panel to investigate price spikes on older medicines with little competition. But some see language in the proposal as reassuring to the pharmaceutical industry.
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The system's officials determined that acquiring community hospitals would be time consuming and expensive, so they instead focused on partnerships. In other hospital news, mental health experts are concerned Texas is failing to act on psychiatric facilities with unsafe conditions, and hospitals are trying to find ways to stave off an epidemic of employee burnout.
Although the rates have fallen in four states, data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that obesity rates are above 20 percent in every state.
In a letter to Congress, the president says the Department of Veterans Affairs is already adopting many of the proposals as part of a continuing overhaul of the department.
The Medicaid program is short between $1.3 billion to $1.6 billion. News outlets also report on Medicaid developments in Colorado and Pennsylvania.
The industry is launching an all-out effort to stop a new Food and Drug Administration rule regulating e-cigarettes and cigars.
Teenagers are having the same amount of sex, but there's been a sharp decline in pregnancy. Researchers say it's all due to better contraception use.
The field was blazing hot a year ago, but some of that optimism has faded as companies and scientists trying to use immunotherapy have been blocked by daunting challenges.
"Instead of having four or five overdoses in a day, you're having these 20, 30, 40, maybe even 50 overdoses in a day," says Tom Synan, a director on an Ohio-based heroin task force. In other news, more counties and states are considering legal action against opioid-makers, advocates urge the government to act before market forces drive up the price of naloxone, CVS agrees to a prescription drug monitoring database and more.
“This find is disappointing, but not surprising,” Commissioner of Agriculture Adam H. Putnam said in a statement. In other news, the U.S. government gives Takeda Pharmaceutical nearly $20 million for its Zika vaccine efforts, spraying for mosquitoes kills millions of honeybees, and the virus continues to spread globally.
The treatment is in late-stage clinical trials.
Under a special, one-time stock grant created in 2014, top executives — including Chief Executive Heather Bresch — will be rewarded if the company’s earnings and stock price meet certain goals by the end of 2018. Meanwhile, a loophole allowed the company to use generic prices in its rebates to Medicaid.
Despite the recent upheaval of the exchanges, Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell says the administration has the tools it needs to make them stable. Meanwhile, consumers are concerned about possible rate hikes.
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