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In the 10th Republican debate -- one of the most contentious as the candidates eye Super Tuesday -- Marco Rubio called out the lack of details in Donald Trump's health proposals, while the frontrunner again defended some of Planned Parenthood's work.
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News outlets report on health issues in California, Maryland, Indiana, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Massachusetts and Missouri.
Doctors at Houston Methodist Hospital say they have developed a test to identify if a patient is positive for the Zika virus in as quickly as one day, without sending samples to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for diagnosis.
The strain chosen for this year's vaccine is 59 percent effective, which is an improvement on last year's, which came in at less than 20 percent. In other public health news, scientists say the connection between ovarian cancer and talc is unclear, the president is set to talk about his precision medicine initiative and a fight is brewing over nursing home evictions.
News outlets report on local treatment experiments in Baltimore and Ithaca, New York. Opioid news also comes from Massachusetts and Florida.
Meanwhile in other marketplace news, manufacturers are enjoying the windfall from the two-year postponement of the medical device tax. And CVS Caremark reports slower growth in its drug prices.
Researchers say facilities are not "gaming" the system by using observation care to hide patients returning to the hospital within 30 days of discharge. In local hospital marketplace news, media outlets report on developments in Georgia, North Carolina, Ohio, Massachusetts, Maryland and Florida.
Kentucky officials report a Medicaid funding gap of more than $600 million over the next two years and Delaware is looking at a $28.5 million shortfall this year. News outlets also report on a proposal in the Alabama legislature that would cut the governor's budget request for Medicaid, a bipartisan effort in Alaska to revamp the program and reaction in Iowa to federal approval of the governor's plan to have private insurance companies run the Medicaid program.
The proposal under consideration by the Budget Committee proposes cutting money to programs such as Medicare, but those in opposition to the spending bill are still wary. In other news from Capitol Hill, senators approve $100 million in emergency aid to Flint, Michigan.
The Republican candidate has said Planned Parenthood does a "really good job" in some areas, but for Cecile Richards, the president of the organization, that's where the agreement ends. In other campaign news, KHN looks at the candidates' positions on drug prices while NBC News looks at their records on mental health issues. And Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid backs Hillary Clinton for president.
Two surveys, one from AP-GfK and another from the Kaiser Family Foundation, find that high public approval of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders' "Medicare-for-all" proposal dips when negative arguments are presented. (KHN is an editorially independent program of the foundation.)
The 89-4 vote came after a drawn-out battle in which several lawmakers opposed the nominee based, partly, on his ties to the pharmaceutical industry.
A proposal by the House majority leader would not follow the federal health law's overall Medicaid expansion but would instead offer coverage to
only 16,000 of the state's poorest residents. In South Dakota, expansion advocates plan a television ad to thwart the governor's proposal to expand the program for low-income residents.
Texas, Wisconsin, Kansas, Louisiana, Indiana and Nebraska want an injunction against the federal rules, arguing the Affordable Care Act's language did not give clear notice that states would be responsible for the fee. In other Obamacare news, The Wall Street Journal previews the impending fight for co-op funding.
The Obama administration is tightening the rules about customers entering the federal exchanges after the open enrollment period following an outcry from insurers.
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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