First Edition: August 23, 2011
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports about GOP presidential hopeful Rick Perry's positions on the health law and other health policy issues.
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Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports about GOP presidential hopeful Rick Perry's positions on the health law and other health policy issues.
The AP reports that GOP presidential hopeful Rick Perry has backed an approach to health reform that could be "as controversial as Obama's remake." Meanwhile, President Barack Obama faces discontent from his base over many of his policies.
Meanwhile, the health law's individual mandate could fall prey to deficit reduction efforts. And, in the background, congressional appropriators face especially unique challenges this year in trying to get their work done.
A selection of opinions and editorials from around the country.
Experts say a shortage of certain drugs has become a major crisis.
Meanwhile, iWatch News reports on how the health information sector seems especially fond of lobbying's "revolving door."
But medical device companies get less love from Morgan Stanley health analysts.
Sarah Kline, executive director of Malaria No More UK, writes in the Guardian's "Poverty Matters Blog" about World Mosquito Day, which is recognized annually on August 20 to commemorate the discovery 114 years ago that female mosquitoes transmit malaria among humans.
Meanwhile, the Connecticut Mirror reports on the challenges involved in maintaining a pediatric program at a general hospital.
News outlets report on a variety of state health policy issues.
The Fiscal Times reports that the trust fund that supports these payments will run out of cash in 2017, unless Congress intervenes.
The total number of health law waivers granted by the Department of Health and Human Services is now 1,472.
Minnesota Public Radio reports that some bills in Congress would lift certain limits placed on flexible spending accounts and how they can be applied to certain over-the-counter medicines.
The cost of addressing the effects of drought and famine in the Horn of Africa "has soared to $2.5 billion, just to keep malnourished children alive, and the number of people requiring humanitarian aid has doubled" since "November last year, [when] it would have cost $500 million to prevent the situation from deteriorating," Jo Khinmaung, a food security policy adviser for Tearfund, writes in the Guardian's "Poverty Matters Blog."
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services says this approach, which is geared toward durable medical equipment, will save billions of dollars and could become a model for other efforts to cut costs.
While The Wall Street Journal and Kaiser Health News report on the current dark side of aging in America, The Associated Press offers insights into how baby boomer interest in countering the effects of getting older could lead to billions of dollars in spending.
"More than 2,600 humanitarians and policymakers meet in Stockholm this week to hash out ideas about how to tackle escalating problems surrounding water scarcity and access to sanitation, particularly in urban environments," AlertNet reports.
NPR's health blog "Shots" interviewed Laith Abu-Raddad of the Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, co-author of a recent study published in PLoS Medicine that showed "[m]ore than five percent of men who have sex with men are infected by HIV in" the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), about "the challenges of researching such a taboo topic." Abu-Raddad discusses his motivations for pursuing the study, data collection challenges and surprises in the data, the blog notes (Thrasybule, 8/19).
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