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Lawmakers in Connecticut are considering re-introducing a bill that died last year that would establish a public health insurance option. Similarly in California, state lawmakers are pushing a single-payer bill that failed to pass last year.
The Chicago Tribune reports on how reaction to a recent series of anti-obesity ads underscores the complexities of addressing this epidemic.
The Los Angeles Times reports that this new policy could face a difficult Supreme Court path and continues to draw outrage from Catholic clergy.
Modern Healthcare reports that the new studies represent a slightly new direction. Darmouth Atlas has previously focused on on Medicare data.
The Hill is reporting that the American Health Care Association is proposing to save at least $2 billion by making sure patients discharged from the hospital stay healthy.
Cuts to state Medicaid programs are in the news: A federal judge on Monday stopped cuts to California's Medicaid program, and state lawmakers in Nebraska are offering a bill to stop Medicaid cuts in their state.
Reuters reports that Standard & Poor's has warned of potential downgrades if nations don't take steps to curb rising health care costs.
A selection of editorials and opinions on health care policy from around the country.
News outlets report on a variety of state health issues.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including a report about Democratic expectations regarding the soon to be unveiled GOP budget and how it might reform Medicare.
During a webinar Thursday hosted by the Health Global Access Project, AVAC, and amfAR (The Foundation for AIDS Research), John Blandford, chief of CDC's Division of Global HIV/AIDS Health Economics, Systems and Integration Branch, presented findings showing "that scaling up antiretroviral therapy (ART) for HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention in the developing world not only saves lives, but saves money too," the Center for Global Health Policy's "Science Speaks" blog reports. According to the blog, "[Blandford] and his team of colleagues have found that cost savings from averted negative outcomes offset a major portion of the cost of treatment over time." The blog quotes Blandford saying, "Based on [WHO] standards, ART should be considered highly cost-effective in almost every country in sub-Saharan Africa" (Mazzotta, 1/27).
"Doctors in Zimbabwe said more than 800 cases of typhoid have been reported in Harare, the capital, in an outbreak of the bacterial disease," GlobalPost reports (Conway-Smith, 1/29). "Health services director Dr. Prosper Chonzi raised fears of a cholera outbreak given the health conditions that gave birth to typhoid," Xinhua writes (1/28). Chonzi "said ... a clean-up and awareness campaign is underway," according to GlobalPost (1/29).
In this post on the Global Health Technologies Coalition's (GHTC) "Breakthroughs" blog, "Ashley Bennett, senior policy associate at the GHTC, offered her take on President Obama's State of the Union address, including his emphasis on research and innovation." She writes, "While the President was not as focused on using science to help the United States out-innovate the rest of the world as he was during last year's State of the Union address, he did re-commit his administration to harnessing the strength of innovation to create an 'America built to last,'" adding, "He also urged Congress not to cut parts of the budget that will hurt the promise of science and technology" (Bennett, 1/27).
UNICEF on Friday "appealed ... for $1.28 billion to provide humanitarian assistance to children in over 25 countries this year, with nearly one-third of the total amount earmarked for the crisis in the Horn of Africa," the U.N. News Centre reports (1/27). The agency also released its annual "Humanitarian Action for Children 2012" report, which "decried the rising levels of starvation and malnutrition among children under the age of five in many of the world's troubled regions," GlobalPost writes (1/27). UNICEF "said it was seeking nine percent less than in 2011, linked to lower needs in Pakistan and Haiti, but that its needs for fighting hunger had jumped by nearly 50 percent," according to Agence France-Presse (1/28). The agency said more than one million children in Africa's Sahel region are at risk of severe malnutrition, Reuters reports (1/27).
The Malaria Policy Advisory Committee, convened by the WHO Global Malaria Programme and composed of 15 malaria experts, will hold its first meeting January 31 through February 2 in Geneva, according to this article in Malaria Journal, which is a prelude to a series on the group's policy recommendations and supporting evidence that will be published following each biannual meeting. The article also "provides the global malaria community with the background and overview of the Committee and its terms of reference," the article summary states (D'Souza/Newman, 1/27).
In this AlertNet commentary, GAVI Alliance CEO Seth Berkley discusses how "public-private partnership is part of the GAVI Alliance's formula for success that has helped countries to immunize 325 million children in our first 10 years, saving more than 5.5 million lives." Writing last week from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Berkley says, "In fact, public-private partnerships are part of what brings me to Davos this week."
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, president of Liberia and the new chair of the African Leaders Malaria Alliance (ALMA), writes in a Huffington Post opinion piece about Africa's efforts in the fight against malaria. "Supported by the lessons learned from the decade to 'roll back malaria,' which produced a 33 percent decline in malaria deaths in Africa between 2000 and 2010, 41 African presidents have now signed on to end deaths from the disease in their home countries as part of [ALMA]," she writes. But "[d]espite this encouraging progress, much work remains to be done," she continues.
Justice Department attorneys argue that even if the Supreme Court overturns the individual mandate, it doesn't need to void the entire law.
Top GOP lawmakers took to the airwaves Sunday and said they expect to reach a deal with Democrats before the current payroll tax break and temporary Medicare physician payment fix expire at the end of February.
Thirteen pharmaceutical companies; the governments of the U.S., U.K. and United Arab Emirates; the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; the WHO; the World Bank; the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi); and other global health organizations "announced a new, coordinated push to accelerate progress toward eliminating or controlling 10 neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) by the end of the decade," according to a press release (.pdf) from Global Health Strategies. "In the largest coordinated effort to date to combat NTDs," the partners will provide 14 billion doses of medications by the end of the decade and share expertise and products to speed research and development of new drugs, the press release notes.
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