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Speaking in Milwaukee, the president noted the progress on Capitol Hill. But negotiators are still fine-tuning the fragile accord, which would keep physicians' Medicare payments stable. KHN tracked the related coverage.
The proposal would also cut Medicare payments to hospitals, other providers and clinical labs as well as Medicaid payments to hospitals that serve the poor.
The New York Times explores the history of the individual mandate. In other health law articles, a Gallup poll finds small business owners worried about the costs they will incur and some doctors in favor of a single payer health system file a brief with the Supreme Court opposing the federal law.
The Associated Press examines the complicated issue of health costs by looking at foot amputations from diabetes.
"Malnutrition is the root cause of the deaths of 2.6 million children each year, and the bodies and brains of 450 million more will fail to develop properly due to inadequate diet over the next 15 years unless immediate action is taken, according to a survey published Wednesday by" Save the Children, the Guardian reports (Tisdall, 2/14). "A quarter of young children around the world are not getting enough nutrients to grow properly, and 300 die of malnutrition every hour," according to the survey, "A Life Free from Hunger: Tackling Child Malnutrition," the Independent writes (Valley, 2/15).
Even as officials announced record recoveries of fraudulent Medicare claims, they proposed new rules to force providers to voluntarily return overpayments within 60 days of discovering them. The proposal is intended to cut down on the need for criminal or civil investigations.
The Drug Enforcement Administration has suspended four Florida pharmacies - and is trying to stop their supplier, Cardinal Health - from selling controlled substances in an effort to fight prescription drug abuse, The Wall Street Journal reports.
In "the first in a series of conversations with officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) discussing the CDC's role in global HIV and tuberculosis (TB) research and development," the Center for Global Health Policy's "Science Speaks" blog interviews Kayla Laserson, director of the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI)/CDC Field Research Station in Kisumu, Kenya. Laserson answers questions about her work with the CDC, the latest research projects underway at KEMRI/CDC, and progress in Kenya's HIV response since she began working in Kisumu six years ago, among other topics (Mazzotta, 2/14).
Acting Director Marilyn Tavenner says the agency will re-examine the October 2013 deadline for the coding system, known as ICD-10. It expands the number of codes used for billing medical services.
In this post in the Global Health Technologies Coalition's (GHTC) "Breakthroughs" blog, Mandy Goldberg, global health research and development (R&D) advocacy intern at Research!America, shares the organization's findings about the state of Illinois from an analysis conducted in target states to measure the health and economic impact of global health R&D in the U.S. "Illinois boasts more than 200 academic, government, and non-profit research institutions, as well as seven research and technology parks, all of which contribute significantly to employment within the state," she writes, adding, "Illinois is one of the top 10 bioscience employers in the United States, with more than 57,000 people working in the industry" (Halnon, 2/14).
A new report looks at autoworker health care claims to find clues as to why spending varies by region and finds that hospital price variation made up one-third of the difference.
While most of the public favors the Obama administration's contraception compromise, the Catholic bishops will launch TV and radio ads against the mandate.
The Wall Street Journal reports the plan would scale back money for public health and prevention programs; The Associated Press covers the debate about the proposed defense budget, which would scale back retirees' health coverage.
Writing on the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition's website, Sarah Sagely Klotz, executive director of Hamlin Fistula USA, reports on how private U.S. investments "are building maternal care capacity and producing tremendous results" in Ethiopia. "Unfortunately, around the globe women are often neglected and have very limited access to maternal care," she writes, adding, "Through the generous investments made by many Americans, however, communities in developing countries are yielding substantial and lasting benefits" (2/14).
"Globally, malnutrition is the most important cause of illness and death," Jeremy Laurance, health editor at the Independent, writes in this editorial. Laurance details the physical effects of malnutrition on a child and notes, "Malnutrition contributes to more than half of child deaths worldwide. ... It affects virtually every organ system," and "[i]ts impact on the immune system is similar to that of AIDS."
Nearly all the candidates for president are weighing in on how to make Medicare fiscally sustainable, while Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli says the health law will factor into which candidate he endorses.
A selection of health policy stories from California, Georgia, Maine, Wisconsin, Oregon, Minnesota and Virginia.
Nature reports how "[i]n the hunt for drugs that target diseases in the developing world, ... [p]harmaceutical companies are making entire libraries of chemical compounds publicly available, allowing researchers to rifle through them for promising drug candidates." The journal writes, "The latest push for open innovation, unveiled last month as part of a World Health Organization road map to control neglected tropical diseases, will see 11 companies sharing their intellectual property to give researchers around the world a head start on investigating drug leads."
The Wall Street Journal reports that the manufacturer of Avastin says it has found counterfeit vials of the drug in the United States.
But senior aides warned that negotiators still had to sign off on the agreement and that obstacles could surface given the long-running tensions over the measure.
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