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The opponents of the new law say the legislation has insufficient safeguards for vulnerable populations. A California doctor is also worried about patients choosing the option over other treatments.
News outlets report on health care developments in New Hampshire, Connecticut, Missouri, Ohio, Washington, Delaware and Maryland.
The Department of Veterans Affairs says it will study what effect specially trained service dogs can have on the lives of veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder. It takes more than two years and costs about $30,000 to train such a dog.
The South Carolina Medicaid director says without more legislative funding, the state may have to cut services or reimbursements. In California, officials announced that the federal government has approved plans for some changes. Also, a key Kansas advocate for people with disabilities is retiring.
While lawmakers take action in California, pharmaceutical companies in Ohio find problems with a ballot issue aiming to keep prescription drug prices down.
In other regional hospital news, Cleveland officials are urging hospitals against diverting ambulances to emergency rooms that are farther away. And the outgoing director of a St. Louis Veterans Affairs facility talks about changes made at the hospital.
Gov. Asa Hutchinson, when taking office last year, suggested he wanted to change the hybrid program known as the "private option" that was set up under the Medicaid expansion in the health law.
The Chicago Tribune reports that the relationship between the health system and the insurer ended Dec. 31 and is expected to impact the health care choices of thousand of patients. Also, Kaiser Health News notes a trend in which more employers are offering workers critical illness plans.
Elsewhere, an autopsy reveals concussion-related brain disease in the youngest patient to date. In other public health developments, new tools to battle RSV and multiple myeloma show promise.
This trend reflected an industry-wide focus on drugs for rare and hard-to-treat diseases. Meanwhile, Gilead's hepatitis C combo drug gets a Food and Drug Administration priority review, a gene-editing drug maker files for an IPO and some testing of another drug is suspended.
Among the changes coming this year, Medicare will pay clinicians to counsel patients about options for care at the end of life, and beneficiaries will be able to pick an Accountable Care Organization.
"Those requirements are unnecessary to protect - indeed, would harm - women's health," U.S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli wrote in a friend-of-the-court brief for the first abortion case the high court has heard in almost a decade.
The two-year moratorium created a blueprint for those looking to chip away at the Affordable Care Act. Meanwhile, it gave CFOs extra time to prepare for the change.
The presidential candidate also struck out at House Republicans' attempt to roll back the Affordable Care Act. "They have no plan," Hillary Clinton said.
Washington Rep. Jim McDermott, a Democrat, says he will spend the rest of the year working on a mental health reform bill. Meanwhile, the House returns Tuesday to vote on some unfinished business, including a bill repealing the health law, which CBO says would save a half-trillion dollars.
In new regulations to address gun violence to be announced Tuesday, the administration will lay out its plan to direct $500 million toward mental health care, overhaul the background-check system and allow health care providers to disclose some information on mentally ill patients to the FBI. Republicans say the move is a misuse of power.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
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