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The Wall Street Journal looks at how Democratic messaging on health care and other social and safety-net issues is playing during this election season. Also, the Sacramento Bee and CBS News parse the veracity of campaign ads.
Earlier in the week, Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., who hopes the mid-terms will not only result in his re-election but also GOP control of the Senate and his own rise to majority leader, made comments that repeal of the health law might not be in the cards. Since then, however, he has sought to reassure conservatives about his opposition to the overhaul. Meanwhile, other news outlets analyze how a Republican majority in the Senate, and other electoral outcomes, might impact the health policy agenda.
Reuters reports that insurers selling 2015 health law plans expect at least 20 percent growth in customers and more than a doubling in some states. Also in the news, reports about enrollment efforts in California and premium cost confusion in Minnesota and North Carolina.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
News outlets offer a variety of opinions on the strategy to fight Ebola and on the issue of quarantining health care workers.
A selection of opinions on health care from around the country.
Every week KHN reporter Shefali Luthra selects interesting reading from around the Web.
A selection of health policy stories from Arkansas, California, Tennessee, Michigan, North Carolina and Maryland.
The nurse opts to go for a bike ride Thursday morning against orders from the governor. Meanwhile, California also announces it is setting up a 21-day home quarantine policy for any health care workers returning from West Africa.
Lawyers for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed suit, arguing that a company can ask employees to undergo voluntary testing but can't impose a penalty on those who decline to submit to health screening tests.
Last fall, the nation's biggest health insurers were cautious about the overhaul's coverage expansion and prohibitions against denying coverage to people with pre-existing conditions. But a year later, many have raised earnings expectations, and investors see less uncertainty.
Obamacare has been a buzzword in ads in many key Senate elections, and, in anticipation of an expected run-off, groups are making media buys in Louisiana, that will, among other things, hit Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu hard for her support of the health law. Meanwhile, other TV advertisements go beyond the campaign and seek to raise awareness about the law itself and to encourage people to sign up for coverage.
Although there's uncertainty about what would be included on a Republican-controlled Senate's to-do list, The Washington Post notes that the outcome of this election will have a significant impact on the health law's future direction.
Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell met with 12 industry leaders in advance of the Nov. 15 kick-off of the health law's second sign-up period. Also in the news, Burwell taps a top Treasury aide, Alastair Fitzpayne, to be the next HHS chief of staff.
News outlets examine how the health law's implementation unfolded in Mississippi and other southern states.
The GOP says language in the health law bars consumers in 36 states from using federal tax subsidies to purchase health coverage on the federal exchange. The justices, who are scheduled to consider the question this week, could announce their decision to take up the case or not as soon as Nov. 3, according to Bloomberg.
Some employers increasingly view the health law's online marketplaces as an attractive option for their workers, and WellPoint said Wednesday that its small business plan membership is declining more quickly than expected.
Some states with large rural populations opted out of expanding Medicaid even though large numbers of rural residents are uninsured, California Healthline reports. Meanwhile, a second wave of people with unverified immigration status will lose coverage this month, and Fox News reports on the increasing popularity of cheap, one-year insurance policies that are being sold as an alternative to those purchased on government exchanges.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
A selection of opinions on health care from around the country.
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