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Meanwhile, news outlets report on a range of other implementation issues, including the decision of Ohio Gov. John Kasich to follow through on forming a state-based exchange despite his opposition to the overhaul, changes to FSAs and the measure's impact on farmers.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports on the status of efforts to reach a debt-ceiling deal.
Focus turns to a proposal by House Speaker John Boehner that would raise the debt limit now but require a commission to make cuts later in entitlements such as Medicare and Medicaid.
After efforts by the president and House Speaker John Boehner fell apart, the leaders met at the White House Saturday to try to patch together a new deal. There are questions about what will happen to entitlement programs including Medicare and Medicaid.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee on Thursday voted to "reinstate a ban on providing foreign aid to groups that perform abortions or provide advice about the procedure," The Hill's "HealthWatch" blog reports on the "so-called 'global gag rule'" (Baker, 7/21).
"Infanticide or attempted infanticide has become the most common crime after theft and assault among inmates at the prison for women and girls" in Mali's capital city Bamako, the Associated Press/San Francisco Chronicle reports.
While Cote d'Ivoire studies several options for financing public health services, its temporary policy of providing free care
With the risk of acquiring an infection or dying in a hospital far greater than flying on an airplane, the WHO on Wednesday announced the appointment of Sir Liam Donaldson, formerly Britain's chief medical officer, as its envoy for patient safety, PostMedia News/Vancouver Sun reports (Edwards, 7/22).
Two weeks after lifting a ban on certain aid groups providing assistance in Somalia, the militant Islamist group al-Shabab "has announced that the ban remains in place" and said that the U.N.'s declaration of famine in two regions of the country was being used as "propaganda," Al Jazeera reports (7/22).
News outlets report on the potential impact that the possibility of debt default is having on Medicare, Medicaid and state budgets.
This week's studies come from Health Affairs, The Kaiser Family Foundation and the Archives of Surgery.
ProPublica reports on the preliminary settlement in which Tenet Healthcare and a subsidiary will pay $25 million.
During a news briefing in Washington, D.C., Steve Larsen, deputy administrator and director of the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight at the CMS, discussed certain issues related to the establishment of state health exchanges.
During a hearing this week, Senate Democrats, including Aging Committee Chairman Herb Kohl, D-Wis., advanced the causes of certain policies to control drug costs and reduce deficit spending.
A selection of interesting opinions and editorials from around the country.
News outlets report on a variety of state health policy issues.
"Chinese officials are fiercely attached to the one-child policy. They attribute to it almost every drop in fertility and every averted birth: some 400m more people, they claim, would have been born without it," an Economist editorial states, adding, "This is patent nonsense. Chinese fertility was falling for decades before the one-child policy took effect in 1979."
"Demography is like a supertanker; it takes decades to turn around. It will pose some of China's biggest problems. The old leadership is wedded to the one-child policy, but the new leadership, which is due to take over next year, can think afresh. It should end this abomination as soon as it takes power," the Economist writes (7/21).
As President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner continue trying to move toward an ambitious $4 trillion grand bargain, reports indicate that wide differences remain.
In a post on the New York Times' "Opinionator" blog, author and journalist Tina Rosenberg writes about the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) and describes how it can help purchase AIDS drugs for "vast numbers of people." She also notes "its most serious potential weakness"
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports that explore the impact of the uncertainty surrounding the debt talks on Medicare, Medicaid and state budgets.
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