Viewpoints: Heath Insurance And Mortality; Newly Insured Vs. Previously Insured On Marketplaces
A selection of editorials and opinions on health care from around the country.
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A selection of editorials and opinions on health care from around the country.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including news about the inner-workings of some state-based health exchanges.
During a nomination hearing Thursday for Sylvia Mathews Burwell, Sen. Kay Hagan -- a North Carolina Democrat in a tough re-election battle -- criticized North Carolina Republicans for declining to expand the Medicaid program under the health law. Her GOP opponent, Thom Tillis, is the state House speaker.
After millions of dollars have already been spent on attempts to fix Massachusetts' online marketplace, known as the Health Connector, insurers and some exchange board members say the cost is too high. Meanwhile, news outlets also report on developments from Connecticut, Maryland, California, Oregon and Illinois.
Sylvia Mathews Burwell, who has been nominated by the White House to become the next Health and Human Services secretary, also faced tough questions about the health law's implementation and the trouble-plagued healthcare.gov.
The subpoena asks for all email and other correspondence to look into the alleged secret wait list that sought to make wait times at a Phoenix VA hospital seem shorter than they really were.
Meanwhile, USA Today looks at Congress' failure to pass legislation that would address the fragmentation of mental health services following the 2012 shootings in Newtown, Conn., and Sen. Lindsey Graham plans to push a bill that would ban abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy.
And recommendations on digital privacy protections for electronic health records could come as early as June.
A selection of editorials and opinions on health care from around the country.
The case, brought by the Pacific Legal Foundation in Sacramento, Calif., argues the law's insurance mandate is unconstitutional because the Constitution's origination clause requires all revenue-raising measures to originate in the House of Representatives and this legislation began in the Senate.
A selection of health policy stories from New York, Connecticut and Minnesota.
This week's studies and briefs come from the University of Pennsylvania, Health Affairs and the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports from the first Senate confirmation hearing for Sylvia Mathews Burwell, President Barack Obama's pick for Health and Human Services Secretary.
Today the first of two scheduled hearings will take place for Sylvia Mathews Burwell. Though she is expected to be confirmed as the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, she is also expected to face some tough questions about the health law.
Officials from the major insurance companies were not following themes of gloom and doom and instead told the Energy and Commerce Committee that the overhaul has not triggered a government takeover of their industry, and that their stock prices are doing well.
Meanwhile, their trade group warns that the patient cost-sharing requirements in some health law plans could restrict prescription drug access.
Accusations that records were kept secret or falsified and over preventable deaths and mismanagement are part of a larger problems within the Veterans Affairs health system, some say.
Meanwhile, Oregon names an official to oversee its shift to the federal exchange, while other stories examine the slow start of California's small business exchange and the higher costs faced by some Arizona families forced to switch their children from the Children's Health Insurance Program to private insurance when that state ended the program.
Also, more insight into Humana's smaller earnings in the first quarter.
In Massachusetts, former Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services head Don Berwick runs for governor on a single-payer health care platform, and Maryland's Democratic primary for governor sees a health care clash.
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