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Congress has just 15 days left in September to reach a budget agreement and avoid a temporary government shutdown. The process has become complicated by the Planned Parenthood controversy, which has triggered a flurry of activity of its own -- including a House government oversight panel subpoena for unedited videos about Planned Parenthood’s provision of fetal tissue for research.
As Republican presidential hopefuls vie for the attention of dissatisfied voters, the health law is a talking point they frequently use on the campaign trail.
Three of the 23 insurance startups have failed, despite initial funding from the federal government. Also in news about the health law, an examination of which states are getting the bulk of premium subsidies, the most recent auditor report on the problems that hobbled the launch of the healthcare.gov website, and a study looking at the penalties being levied on hospitals.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
In hopes of avoiding this outcome, Republican congressional leadership is trying to quiet conservative anger over Planned Parenthood funding and related abortion issues. Backers of John Boehner, R-Ohio, who faces discord within his caucus over these issues, say the House Speaker is being “blackmailed” by hard-liners into supporting a shutdown.
Harvard Medical School researchers examined Medicare readmission rates and found variables such as patients' education, income and ability to complete activities of daily living explain the difference between the hospitals with the best and worst rates.
A selection of opinions on health care from around the country.
Health care stories are reported from California, Kansas, Montana, Michigan, Oregon, and Massachusetts.
A federal judge has scheduled arguments for 2 p.m. Thursday regarding the reproductive health organization's request for an injunction to prevent the state from terminating its Medicaid contract.
The state budget blueprint would spend $225 million over two years to reshape the state-federal health insurance program for low-income people from a system that pays for every doctor’s visit and procedure into a per-person payment approach.
The commission's report said the racial divisions evident in St. Louis are rooted in social problems such as shortcomings in health care, housing and quality education.
A daily low-dose aspirin for people in their 50s, and some in their 60s, who have a 10 percent or greater chance of having a heart attack or stroke in the next 10 years benefit the most, according to draft guidelines from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.
Doctors, hospitals and health systems are worried the new medical coding system, with more than 100,000 new codes for medical procedures and conditions, will be too much trouble and not worth the improvements officials promise to the quality of care. The switch happens Oct. 1.
Montana officials are looking to have a private company oversee the expansion. Also in state Medicaid news, advocates for expansion in Kansas hope that the recent closure of a hospital might help their cause, and safety net hospitals in Florida are warning that cutbacks caused by the lack of expansion will affect the cost of care.
The report identifies early failures by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services employees to monitor eight companies handling more than $600 million in contracts to build the site. Elsewhere, news outlets report on disappearing PPO options in Florida, rising insurance rates in Georgia and the impact of insurer mega-mergers on the cost and quality of care for consumers.
Campaign proposals from presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., include a government-run health care program that covers all Americans. News outlets also note his stances on women’s concerns, such as abortion rights and paid family and medical leave. This comes as Hillary Clinton, who is also campaigning to be the Democratic nominee, appears to be losing some of her support among women voters. On the GOP side of the ticket, Ohio Gov. John Kasich says he would repeal the parts of the health law he doesn't like but keep some of the other provisions.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
A selection of opinions on health care from around the country.
Health care stories are reported from California, Illinois, New York, Texas, Missouri, Iowa, Alabama and Wisconsin.
Elsewhere, news outlets report on hospital developments including federal violations at Cleveland Clinic's Marymount Hospital, the need for trauma centers on Chicago's South Side and a new generation of ambulatory clinics that provide wide-ranging outpatient care.
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