Viewpoints: GOP Needs To Refine Its Message On Health Law; Battle Over School Lunches
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A selection of editorials and opinions from around the country.
Increasingly, it appears that Republican candidates are focusing their assaults on more than just the Affordable Care Act. News outlets examine how the overhaul is playing on the campaign trail.
The ruling, handed down Friday by a Department of Health and Human Services appeals board, reverses a Medicare policy in place since 1981. It covers surgery, but not other treatments like hormones.
Also in the news, after Louisiana's Medicaid expansion efforts failed in the legislature, the state is poised to try out Gov. Bobby Jindal's alternative to the federal health law.
States are updating rules to better reflect how the health system has changed as a result of the Affordable Care Act, and the Los Angeles Times takes a look at confusion by doctors, as well as consumers, about who's in the new networks.
Politico reports that a national enrollment system is what liberals wanted all along, and now, because some GOP governors took a pass on state-run marketplaces while some Democratic states bungled theirs, it's picking up steam. News outlets also report on the latest exchange news from Maryland, Illinois, Minnesota and Washington.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports about state health law implementation activities as well as the next steps regarding the difficulties at the VA health system.
Two days after a preliminary Inspector General report confirmed secret waiting lists at a Phoenix veterans hospital, Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki addresses a conference on homeless veterans and says the breach of integrity "is indefensible." He meets today with President Obama amid calls for his resignation in Congress.
As probes of Veterans Affairs hospitals continue, Democratic and Republican candidates are pointing fingers and attempting to find political advantage in the controversy.
Among those who report being impacted, Republicans are much more likely to say they know someone who has been hurt by the law, while Democrats are more likely to say their families have been helped, according to The Kaiser Family Foundation's monthly tracking poll.
This week's studies come from JAMA Internal Medicine; JAMA Surgery; the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law; The Urban Institute; The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; and the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.
Also, federal regulators ponder if e-cigarettes are considered tobacco use -- allowing insurers to charge more in premiums to their users. And one Texas family's Obamacare opt-out story.
The inspector general's report points at $6.7 billion in overspending in 2010 by Medicare. The HHS inspector general also says that the program paid $457 million in 2012 to detect drugs after a sharp increase in prescription drug abuse.
Suit accused the medical device maker of giving doctors gifts in return for using its products. Elsewhere, a federal judge denied dismissal of a lawsuit against Novartis alleging a kickback campaign to boost its drugs covered by Medicare and Medicaid.
Gov. John Kitzhaber asks the state attorney general to start legal proceedings against the company that was paid $130 million to build the state's online exchange, which never functioned properly.
State Sen. Emmett Hanger seeks a compromise on the issue that threatens to shut down the state government because it has deadlocked negotiations on the budget.
Rep. Tim Murphy, R-Pa., held a forum Thursday in an effort to build momentum and consensus around this legislation.
A selection of health policy stories from Missouri, North Carolina, California, Wisconsin, Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland, Montana and Louisiana.
In a complaint to federal officials, the groups say the companies set high out-of-pocket costs for drugs to treat HIV and AIDS in an effort to discourage gay patients from picking the plans.
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