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Politico reports that the House Armed Services Committee is preparing to take on defense spending issues -- including TRICARE fee increases. The Fiscal Times reports that questions about Congressional Budget Office analyses are coming from both sides of the political spectrum.
According to The Commonwealth Fund, the U.S. spends more than 12 other industrialized countries, but the care here is not necessarily better.
MedPage Today reports that a House subcommittee chair is asked the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to except doctors in small practices from certain requriements.
A selection of editorials and opinons on health policy from around the country.
The Chicago-based company says last week's report by the Minnesota Attorney General did harm, and that the company will seek legal remedies.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including a report exploring how the Medicare payment system could suffer unintended consequences if the Supreme Court overturns the health law.
The United States has a higher rate of babies born too early
A Wall Street Journal editorial addresses reports published on April 14 in the Guardian alleging that the U.K. Department for International Development (DfID) funded a program in India that "has 'forcibly sterilized Indian women and men' -- a practice India supposedly left behind in the 1970s," the editorial states. "DfID issued a statement objecting to the Guardian's report, saying that its funding was not meant to be going to 'sterilization' centers, only to helping 'women access a mix of reversible methods of family planning,' such as contraceptive pills, and to 'improve the quality of services,'" the editorial writes, adding, "DfID says it has also offered technical support to help Indian authorities crack down on forced sterilization." According to the Wall Street Journal, "A DfID official, who declined to be named, clarified to us that the national Indian program funded by British taxpayers does include voluntary sterilization, but that sterilization specifically is 'not part of what we fund,'" and "[h]e added that DfID will end its support for the national Indian program next year and will focus family-planning aid only on state governments in India's poorest regions" (5/1).
Why do some doctors keep doing expensive medical procedures after it becomes apparent there are cheaper and equally safe ways to treat patients? A new study takes a crack at this question and it has some interesting findings.
The administration noted that patient rolls have swelled at the centers as more Americans lost their jobs and health insurance. The White House said 20 million Americans - up from 17 million four years ago - now receive care at the federally funded facilities.
On Capitol Hill, Republicans are charging that the health law is encouraging businesses to drop coverage and politicians prepare for the next fight on some of the law's provisions.
A second federal judge in Texas issued an injunction allowing Texas to exclude Planned Parenthood from Texas' Women's Health Program -- for now -- a day after another judge in Texas had ruled the state couldn't bar the group from the health program.
A selection of editorials and opinions on health care policy from around the country.
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria "is cutting its workforce and tightening its focus on 20 countries hardest hit by AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria," Reuters reports. Gabriel Jaramillo, who took over as general manager of the fund in February, "said in a statement that the fund had completed a reorganization that would rebalance its workforce with 39 percent more people managing grants and 38 percent fewer in support roles," the news service notes.
"Europe is becoming a 'hotspot' for emerging infections as those typically confined to tropical climates are making their way north, according to research that links climate change to the global spread of disease," the Financial Times reports. "Changing environmental conditions have facilitated the spread of bacteria and other carriers across borders, reports a study" published in the journal Science last week, according to the news service. The study, which "cited outbreaks of West Nile fever in Greece and Romania and dengue fever in France and Croatia," found that, "[u]nder current weather conditions, seven climate-influenced diseases, including Rift Valley fever and encephalitis, could pose a threat to people in Europe," the news service writes.
The New York Times reports on the newest venue for this ongoing clash -- which dates back to 2001 -- between nurse anesthetists and anesthesiologists.
According to the American Hospital Association, more than 80 percent of hospitals have yet to achieve the first stage of electronic health record "meaningful use" and, therefore, can't qualify for federal incentive payments.
The hotly contested race between Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., and Elizabeth Warren, a Democratic challenger, continues to involve health policy issues. Meanwhile, The Washington Post reports that Democrats are hoping that former Surgeon General Richard Carmona will turn Arizona "blue."
Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal signed a bill Tuesday banning most late-term abortions -- those after 20 weeks of pregnancy. The law was pushed after controversial research found a fetus can feel pain at that stage of the pregnancy.
"The U.S. government will soon be asking university officials to comment on how best to implement recently released dual use research rules at the university level," according to Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), who spoke Monday at a workshop sponsored by the National Academies in Washington, ScienceInsider reports. "The reviews are designed to reduce the risks associated with dual use research of concern (DURC) that could be used for good or harm," the news service notes, adding, "The announcement marks the latest U.S. response to the controversy over a pair of studies that show how to make the H5N1 avian influenza virus transmissible in mammals."
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