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In what was viewed as a largely symbolic vote, the House rejected an effort to increase the nation's borrowing ability. Congressional Republicans viewed the step as a means to advance arguments that any effort to increase the debt ceiling should be accompanied by spending cuts and program revisions - including changes to Medicare.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports about a move yesterday by the Department of Health and Human Services to reduce prices on health plans for people with pre-existing conditions.
News outlets examine the newest effort by the government to make changes to the plans, which are a bridge until provisions of the new health law take effect.
"As the war on AIDS heads into its fourth decade, the need for funds is spiralling relentlessly higher, prompting a quest for new resources from consumer levies to contributions from developing giants," Agence France-Presse/France 24 reports (5/30).
UNICEF for the first time on Friday published the prices it pays pharmaceutical companies for vaccines, "as the world's biggest buyer of lifesaving immunizations aims to spark price competition in the face of rising costs," the Associated Press/Washington Post reports (5/28).
Deadly bacterial infections in patients are the aim of new efforts to clean up hospitals while bone density scan payment and heart scan screenings are also examined.
A roundup of state health-care related news from Texas, Connecticut, Maine, Florida, California, Louisiana, Georgia and Wisconsin.
The New York Times looks at the evolution of the battle against AIDS since the first federal announcement of the disease 30 years ago this week.
The Wall Street Journal reports on negotiations surrounding a U.N. declaration to be discussed at the High Level Meeting on AIDS scheduled for June 8-10 in New York.
With food costs rising for the second time in three years, Oxfam released a report on Tuesday predicting "the price of some staples such as corn will double in the next 20 years amid a permanent crisis caused by rising demand, flat crop yields and climate change," Forbes reports (Max, 5/31).
In a speech to the OECD last week, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said that foreign aid is undermined by lax tax enforcement systems in developing countries and their wealthy citizens who avoid paying taxes, Agence France-Presse reports.
UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibe on Saturday "told a Vatican conference [Pope Benedict XVI] had opened the door to greater dialogue with his groundbreaking comments on condoms and HIV prevention
News outlets report on telemedicine, drugstore software problems and the effort to protect patient privacy.
After the conclusion of the G8 summit in Deauville, France, last week, development experts expressed concern that the G8's aid package, aimed at encouraging democracy mostly in North Africa, would result in less aid for the rest of the continent, Inter Press Service reports.
The death toll from the January 2010 earthquake that struck Haiti was significantly lower than the toll claimed by Haitian leaders, according to the draft of a report prepared for USAID not yet publicly released, the Associated Press/Herald Sun reports.
Also: Federal government increasingly targets company executives in health fraud cases.
Groups object to law that would impose 72-hour waiting period.
The first reports of the disease were published 30 years ago this week.
News outlets examine a variety of issues facing hospitals and patients.
The New York Times examines how the shifts in doctors' professional lives have changed their political leanings. Also, other outlets report on some changes in medical practice that affect patients too.
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