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Many of the sickest states have remained low on America's Health Rankings, a scorecard which looks at access to medical care, prevention and treatment of disease, avoidable hospital use and cost, healthy lives and health equity. But some states have shown dramatic improvement.
New four-year labor agreements between auto makers and the United Auto Workers Union allow for a change to health insurance that would add annual deductibles on plans that could trigger the 2010 health law’s so-called Cadillac tax. And in other marketplace news, Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes battles to save her blood-testing startup.
Sen. Marco Rubio also plans to talk about troubles at the VA while stumping in Iowa with his brother, who is a veteran. In other Republican presidential campaign news, Ben Carson offers a fuller look at his national health care plan, which, in addition to repealing the 2010 health law, would overhaul Medicare and Medicaid and introduce tax-sheltered "Health Empowerment Accounts" to help consumers save for medical costs.
The Republican measure would help Puerto Rico avoid a bond default on Jan. 1, but to get to the $3 billion price tag, the bill would use money for research and preventive medicine programs nationwide. The bill summary says the money was as yet “unobligated” and could be “repurposed."
In the first of a series of hearings to examine the cost increases for prescription drugs that are no longer protected by patents, the Senate Special Committee on Aging blasts four pharmaceutical companies for their price spikes.
The House will vote Friday on a short-term funding measure. Meanwhile, a proposed delay of the health law's so-called Cadillac tax is emerging as a point of contention in the negotiations.
The companies are among a select few yet to make money on this business, the Los Angeles Times reports. Also, health marketplace news reports from New Hampshire and Connecticut.
News outlets report on state-specific sign-up tallies and remind consumers that the health law's first deadline this open season is fast approaching.
Obama administration officials were upbeat in reporting the enrollment figures, saying the numbers are reason for confidence in Obamacare's long-term stability. They also downplayed concerns about rising costs of premiums and deductibles.
A selection of opinions on health care from around the country.
News outlets report on health care developments in California, Connecticut, Georgia, Massachusetts, Missouri, Nebraska and Florida.
In other hospital news, Carolinas HealthCare System unveiled plans to spend $3 billion on capital projects.
Four for-profit firms will take over the state's Medicaid program on Jan. 1. Also, employees of the University of Iowa hospital system say it has yet to sign contracts with any of the managed care companies, despite the system announcing earlier that it had.
Leaders of the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs want to know why more disciplinary action and firings have not taken place for worker misconduct. In other military health news, special drug courts are increasingly being used to help vets get treatment rather than imprison them.
The Division of Select Agents and Toxins, which regulates hundreds of U.S. labs working with the organisms like anthrax, plague and Ebola, will now be run by Daniel Sosin. A recent internal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention review found that for years labs were allowed to continue experiments despite failing multiple safety inspections.
Meanwhile, scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have their hands tied by congressional restrictions on research into gun violence. The lack of information is glaring in the wake of mass shootings and police shootings that are prompting policymakers to search for ways to take action.
Students in the medical field are also feeling the stress. In a new study, participants portrayed their supervisors as monsters, and themselves as sleep-deprived zombies. And the researchers note that it's not just students who are affected: quality of care suffers when residents are depressed.
The Wall Street Journal provides a rare look at a drug company's process as three years of market research led Pfizer to settling on Ibrance’s $9,850-a-month price. In other pharmaceutical pricing news, a Senate panel opens hearings on the costs of generics and a GlaxoSmithKline executive talks about the difference in the debate tenor between now and the 1990s.
It's likely that Capitol Hill lawmakers will vote Friday on a short-term budget measure to keep the government open and give House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., more time to negotiate.
News outlets also report on developments related to the low-income health insurance program in South Dakota and Arkansas.
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