Latest KFF Health News Stories
CBO Deficit-Reduction Options Include Medicare, Medicaid Cuts
The Hill reports on a series of options outlined by the Congressional Budget Office, including giving states a block grant to cover Medicaid long-term care services.
State Roundup: Poll Finds Satisfaction With Mass. Health Coverage
Today’s report includes news from Massachusetts, Texas, Kansas and California.
Health Care Experts, Lawmakers Discuss The Overhaul’s Future
News outlets offer various perspectives on how the health law will hold up in the face of its current and future legislative, economic and judicial challenges.
HHS Unveils Proposed Waiver Regs For States
The guidance is designed to help implement the health law’s waiver provision for state innovation, which would allow some states flexibility as long as they meet key conditions related to coverage, benefits and cost.
Without Fix, Docs Face 30% Medicare Pay Cut In 2012
This new figure, updated yesterday by Medicare officials from the previous 28.3 percent “cliff,” means the President’s plan to keep physician payments flat for the next two years will exceed – by as much as a billion dollars – the funding requested in his 2012 budget proposal.
Viewpoints: Health Law’s Individual Mandate, Fighting The Deficit By Pinching Health Care Pennies
A range of opinions and editorials from around the country.
ACO Regs Out Soon, Says Berwick
Politico reports on the health industry’s anticipation surrounding the release of the administration’s accountable care organization rules.
Analysis: 1 In 20 American Adults Is A Cancer Survivor
A new report from the National Cancer Institute and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention concluded that nearly 12 million people in the U.S. have survived a bout with this disease.
Funding And Insurance Coverage Issues Are Among Key Abortion Battlegrounds
News outlets report on the latest developments related to congressional Republican efforts to cut Planned Parenthood funding and state efforts to prohibit health insurance plans sold in their new marketplaces from covering abortion services.
Longer Looks: Health Policy Picks From Thought-Provoking Publications
Every Thursday, KHN’s Jessica Marcy compiles this selection of interesting perspectives, from a variety of publications, on health care in America.
Research Roundup: Mass. Medical Bankruptcies; Palliative Care Teams
Today’s compilation of research includes studies from the American Journal of Medicine, Health Affairs, the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, The Children’s Partnership, the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Today’s early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports about short- and long-term budget issues that congressional lawmakers are attempting to address.
Canadian lawmakers in the country’s House of Commons on Wednesday “approved a bill aiming to ease the process that lets generic drug manufacturers produce patented medicines for export to poor nations at cheaper prices in a move the pharmaceutical industry says could undermine intellectual property rights,” Bloomberg reports (Argitis, 3/10).
U.S., Aid Agencies Struggle To Provide Humanitarian Aid For Situation In Libya
The U.S. government and “its European allies are considering the use of naval assets to deliver humanitarian aid to Libya
Sec. Clinton Launches Global Partnership To Improve Maternal, Child Health
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday announced the launch of a global partnership between USAID, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the non-profit Grand Challenges Canada, the World Bank, and the government of Norway to reduce the number of deaths among mothers and infants in developing countries, the Globe and Mail reports.
Advocates, Officials Call For Preservation Of Foreign Aid Budget
Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, “joined a chorus of celebrities, activists and officials Wednesday” calling for Congress “not to cut foreign aid to try to shrink the U.S. deficit,” Agence France-Presse reports.
Justice Dept. Seeks Fast Consideration Of Health Law Appeal
The administration is seeking quick action on its appeal of a Florida judge’s decision that declared the health overhaul unconstitutional.
House Lawmakers Press Senate To Take Action On 1099 Repeal
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., has put the measure back on the Senate’s calendar and hopes to move it forward after the chamber completes it work on the 2011 continuing resolution.
Medicare Fraud Costs Taxpayers Big Money
The Fiscal Times reports that Medicare could collect as much as $70 billion a year as a result of cracking down on fraud.
