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Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports that President Barak Obama went on attack against GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney and the Republican budget blueprint; that a federal court judge asked for clarifications regarding Obama's comment on judicial activism and the high court's consideration of the health law; as well as reports that doctors are stepping into the effort to curb unnecessary medical treatments.
In what has been described as a searing speech, President Barack Obama charged that the GOP budget would end Medicare "as we know it," and included GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney in his criticisms. KHN is following the news coverage of the speech.
In his first public comments about the law since last week's Supreme Court oral arguments, President Barack Obama not only defended the measure and maintained confidence that it would not be overturned, but he also offered warnings against judicial activism.
Findings from a new poll indicate that the public felt less favorable about both the health law and the Supreme Court after last week's oral arguments.
A summary of hospital news from Kansas, California, Wisconsin and Ohio.
An analysis showing significant mammogram overdiagnosis in Norway has raised new questions about mammograms in the U.S., where some say the overdiagnosis problem could be more rampant because of how early most women begin getting them.
A new poll finds that President Obama leads GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney among women in 12 swing states -- a finding fueled mostly by health care, the top issue for women, according to the poll.
Drug stores and community pharmacists have pledged to fight on in the courts, but some consumer advocates see a silver lining in the merger.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Michigan won a hospital pricing antitrust case. In Minnesota, nonprofit insurer UCare readies to return $8 million to the state, while Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota's profit rose 20 percent in 2011.
The New York Times reports on how these diffences in opinion on regulatory policies have played out.
A selection of Medicaid news from Pennsylvania, Washington state, Colorado and California.
Also in the news, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced nearly $50 million in grants to state agencies to help seniors better understand Medicare.
Researchers found distinct regional patterns: They reported that excessive drinking rates were highest in the Northern states, while rates of teen births, sexually transmitted infections and children in poverty were highest in the South.
A selection of editorials and opinions on health care policy from around the country.
The New York Times reports that last week's action at the Supreme Court gave the public an in-depth view of the insitution and the justices. Meanwhile, the Associated Press reports that, in a recent speech, Justice Sonia Sotomayor didn't give any hints about what the high court will do on the health law question.
A selection of state health care stories from Florida, Minnesota, California and Georgia.
President Barack Obama offers sharp critcism of the GOP budget plan, which passed the House on a near-party-line vote last week and which has been embraced by GOP presidential hopefuls. Although the plan, written by House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., would greatly expand the role of private insurers in Medicare, the insurance industry has been mostly silent as well.
Inter Press Service examines efforts to end female genital mutilation (FGM) in Liberia. "[T]hrough cooperative efforts with traditional leaders, the government of Liberia is quietly moving to ... bring an end to female genital cutting in Liberia," IPS writes, adding, "International organizations such as the United Nations Children's Fund argue that FGM is a human rights violation that denies women 'their physical and mental integrity, their right to freedom from violence and discrimination, and in the most extreme case, their life.'" According to the news service, "FGM remains a highly sensitive issue for the government, and officials interviewed maintained that it would take years to put an end to the practice" (Lupick, 4/2).
The Institute of Medicine of the National Academies (IOM) on Monday released a summary of a workshop, titled "Country-Level Decision Making for Control of Chronic Diseases." As part of a series of follow-up activities to the IOM's 2010 report, "Promoting Cardiovascular Health in the Developing World," the workshop "aimed to identify what is needed to create tools for country-led planning of effective, efficient, and equitable provision of programs to prevent and reduce the burden of chronic diseases," according to its website (4/2).
"The need to ensure that people in Africa have access to essential, high quality, safe and affordable medicines has just received a major boost with the launch of the East African Community (EAC) Medicines Registration Harmonization Project in Arusha, Tanzania, on 30 March 2011," UNAIDS reports in a feature story on its website. An alliance "bringing together the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), the World Health Organization (WHO), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Bank, the U.K. Department for International Development (DfID), and the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI)," "hope[s] to strengthen regulatory capacity and systems for medicines in Africa, including antiretroviral drugs, so that fewer lives are lost due to drugs which are unsafe and of poor quality or which are largely unavailable or delivered inefficiently," according to the article (4/2).
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