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But House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., expressed optmistism that ongoing budget talks will result in legislation to raise the debt limit that includes changes to health care entitlement programs.
News outlets report that former Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Penn., may turn out to be Rep. Paul Ryan's, R-Wis., biggest advocate. He gave a strong defense of Ryan's plan to revamp Medicare and control its costs.
A selection of opinions and editorials from around the country.
News outlets examine a variety of state health policy issues.
Whether it is new medical devices or cancer treatments, the new approaches seem to cost more than the older ones.
Several news organization look at recent efforts by health providers to use new technology.
As a federal court judge heard an appeal to overturn Indiana's ban of Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood, the state solicitor general suggests that the state payments could continue if the organization spins off its abortion clinics onto a separate corporate entity.
One of the few remaining hospitals in Cleveland's most improverished neighborhoods will close. Meanwhile, Modern Healthcare reports on top hospitals' infection rates.
NPR reports that the costs of taking care active-duty troops and retirees -- in the form of pensions and and health care costs -- will continue to grow.
The date has been set -- July 13 -- for oral arguments to be heard in a California appeal of a lawsuit against the health overhaul filed by the Pacific Justice Institute. And, in Kansas, the attorney general has signed on to an amicus brief that supports, but does not join, in a lawsuit challenging the measure.
Meanwhile, in other health law implementation news, timing issues related to Department of Health and Human Services regulations are flummoxing some states.
According to NPR, 15 states are trying to cut back on their Medicaid spending. Meanwhile, a California lawsuit, in which patients and providers are suing the state over changes to the program, is moving forward.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports about continuing budget issues involving Medicare and state efforts to cut back on Medicaid.
German officials on Sunday said an E. coli strain that has sickened more than 2,000 people and killed 22 may have originated in a batch of sprouts produced at an organic farm in the north of the country, the New York Times reports.
Malawi's health care system is "facing major setbacks" after the U.K.'s Department for International Development (DFID) made its final aid disbursement to the country in March and decided not to renew a six-year spending commitment that ends this month, IRIN reports.
Several pharmaceutical companies have pledged to lower the prices of vaccines against childhood illnesses ahead of the GAVI Alliance conference in London next week, the Guardian reports (Quinn, 6/6).
Sunday marked the 30th anniversary of the first published report of the disease that came to be known as AIDS, the Los Angeles Times reports. Though the "promise" of a vaccine "has not materialized," "[s]ome progress has been made on other fronts," the newspaper writes (Healy/Maugh, 6/5).
Oumar Ibrahim Toure, a former Malian health minister, "has been indicted for his role over the misuse of donor funds to fight malaria and tuberculosis in the poor West African nation, Mali's supreme court said in a statement" on Thursday, Reuters reports.
The Associated Press/Seattle Times examines the challenges associated with extending affordable health care to people in India.
Flaws have been found in a recent U.S. report suggesting the death toll from Haiti's January 2010 earthquake was significantly lower than official estimates, Mark Feierstein, USAID's assistant administrator for Latin America and the Caribbean, said on Friday, the Associated Press reports.
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