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News outlets report on health care developments in California, New Mexico, Georgia, Colorado, Minnesota, Connecticut, New Jersey, Wisconsin, Massachusetts and Washington, D.C.
ProPublica talks with an author who interviewed 87 clinic owners, doctors and employees about their experiences. In related news, following the shooting at a Colorado Planned Parenthood, regional reproductive rights groups are asking the state legislature to classify attacks on abortion facilities as domestic terrorism.
Though Republican lawmakers fought expansion of the low-income health program, it now covers over 400,000 Kentucky residents. State Senate leaders say they will wait for the new Medicaid plan of incoming Republican governor, Matt Bevin, who has said he wants to roll it back. Elsewhere, Arkansas Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson stops an unfinished Medicaid enrollment system. And the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is allowing states asking for Medicaid waivers to use money to provide housing for some who are ill and homeless.
Even for presidential candidates like Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders who have denounced the political groups, the super PACs are planning big spends on their behalf. In more campaign news, after questioning other candidates but not releasing his own medical records, Trump says he will do so.
Some of the state insurers argued that federal law bars states from requiring insurers to supply data on the costs and outcomes of their services. But some policymakers counter that these databases are important in the effort to improve quality of care and control costs.
A trend among this year’s marketplace plans leaves some consumers responsible for potentially unlimited bills when they thought they had some financial protections. And in other Obamacare news, The Texas Tribune reports on a rise in health insurance scams.
Health spending last year grew by 5.3 percent to more than $3 trillion, which is the biggest jump since 2007.
Elsewhere, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid intends to force a vote on an amendment to keep guns away from people convicted of violating a law meant to ensure access to abortion clinics.
Congressional leaders have only 10 days to reach an agreement to avert a government shutdown.
The measure, which is likely to land on President Barack Obama's desk and be greeted by a veto, would eliminate the health law's individual and employer mandates, medical device tax and so-called Cadillac tax. It also would cut off federal funding for Planned Parenthood.
A selection of opinions on health care from around the country.
News outlets report on health care developments in Florida, California, Texas, Ohio, New York and Utah.
Also, in New Hampshire, during a special legislative session on heroin and opioid misuse, the manager of the state's prescription drug monitoring program told lawmakers the system would do better with more funding.
Also in the news, the 2015 Florida Health Market Review details the state's most profitable hospital and examines how mergers, acquisitions and other dynamics are changing the market.
The Wall Street Journal analyzes Medicare billing data for information on a drop in return visits. And The Washington Post reports on how the impact of rewards for hospitals are impacting patient safety.
Improving "insurance literacy" will help shoppers make suitable choices and lead to overall improvement of health, experts said at a symposium. Meanwhile, The Wall Street Journal decodes the QUALY -- Quality-Adjusted Life Year -- metric.
It was a "bad decision" for the company to join two dozen state-based exchanges for 2015, UnitedHealth CEO Stephen Hemsley said at an investor meeting. The insurance giant only sold coverage on four exchanges in 2014.
Though a presidential veto is all but certain, getting the bill to Barack Obama's desk would be a victory for a group of Republicans. Yet some Democrats see the legislation as an opportunity to attack Republicans in tight 2016 races for voting to drop insurance for thousands of people. Elsewhere, news outlets cover Medicaid and health exchange developments in Montana, Kentucky, Texas and Ohio.
In other congressional news, Senate Democrats say Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is blocking progress on a bill to help 9/11 first responders with health care.
Officials at Gilead Sciences, which makes the drugs Sovaldi and Harvoni that can cure hepatitis C infections, opted for a higher price tag even though they knew it would put the medications out of the reach of some patients and government programs, according to a Senate Finance Committee investigation.
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