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The report finds that many of the insurance cooperatives overestimated the number who would enroll. In other news stories, a House Republican renews the call for repealing the health law, an analysis of Wisconsin's drop in the uninsured and a look at health literacy.
The Obama administration plans to unveil the initiative today. Meanwhile, other news outlets take a look at different aspects of the heroin epidemic and the system's response.
The concept of moral injury -- the psychological scars left by something warriors did or witnessed in conflict -- is gaining attention. The symptoms often mirror those of PTSD and many suffering veterans engage in self-torment or are suicidal.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
A selection of opinions on health care from around the country.
Each week, KHN compiles a selection of recently released health policy studies and briefs.
Health care stories are reported from Massachusetts, New York, California, Connecticut, Iowa, North Carolina, Illinois, Nebraska, New Jersey, Wyoming, Pennsylvania and Utah.
Meanwhile, a Mass. police department experiments with a new role in attempting to help address the nation's heroin epidemic while Baltimore's top health officer went to the city's Adult Drug Treatment Court and passed out prescriptions for a medication that prevents overdoses.
The report found that Medicaid costs, even with the state's expansion and increase in eligible beneficiaries, were 7.6 percent less that projected for the fiscal year ending in June. Meanwhile, Georgia's health care agency has all but rejected Grady Health System's proposed waiver to cover more uninsured people. News outlets in Kansas, Maine and Iowa also report on Medicaid-related developments.
In other news, a study finds that the costs the Pentagon would absorb by allowing transgender people to serve in the military and providing them specialized medical care would be relatively minimal.
Massachusetts' consumers say it isn't easy to find out what a procedure will cost ahead of time, even though the state has a law requiring that information be available. face challenges in determining medical services pricing, Kaiser Health News also reports on how some business leaders and lawmakers want to reexamine the out-of-pocket spending limits for families set by the health law.
Wis. Gov. Scott Walker used this issue to draw a clear line to separate himself from Ohio Gov. John Kasich and N.J. Gov. Chris Christie. Other talk among the GOP presidential hopefuls has to do with childhood vaccinations, fetal tissue research ethics, and Planned Parenthood and race.
About 950,000 people enrolled in health law insurance coverage beyond the official enrollment period -- between Feb. 23 and June 30 -- because they experienced life changes such as losing their job-based insurance or having a baby that made them newly eligible.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
A selection of opinions on health care from around the country.
Each week, KHN's Shefali Luthra finds interesting reads from around the Web.
Health care stories are reported from Michigan, Massachusetts, Florida, Connecticut, Minnesota, Maryland, Kansas, New York and California.
The federal judge's ruling was a response to court findings that said prison system employees misled the court and manipulated files. Meanwhile, news outlets report on prison health care-related stories from Florida and California.
Elsewhere, Connecticut agrees to pay back the federal government $1 million in Medicaid funds paid based on improper billing but disputes that the state owes another $23 million. In Missouri, officials are considering a switch of all Medicaid services to managed care.
This step, by Massachusetts' largest health system, will likely shake up this fast-growing market. In other news, a Kansas City clinic receives a federal designation that will likely translate into funding boosts and two grants were awarded to Wisconsin health centers to pay the costs of new clinics.
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