Mitt Romney To Give ‘Big’ Health Care Speech
The address is seen as the GOP presidential hopeful's effort to confront what is seen as his key vulnerability
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The address is seen as the GOP presidential hopeful's effort to confront what is seen as his key vulnerability
A federal appeals court called for drastic improvements in the system and charged Congress and the president with failing to take appropriate action to such a degree that veterans' civil rights have been violated.
The analysis, advanced by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Urban Institute, could lead to as many as 44 million people being cut from the rolls in the next decade.
A selection of opinions and editorials from around the country.
News outlets across the country report on developments in health policy.
News outlets report on Medicaid developments in Florida and Texas.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports from the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, where oral arguments were held yesterday regarding two legal challenges to the health law.
Today's arguments were the first among the many health law legal challenges to reach the federal appeals court level. Almost everyone agrees the cases will eventually go to the Supreme Court.
The U.N.'s response to severe flooding in Pakistan was "patchy," according to a report from the U.K.'s International Development Committee, which also said leadership and humanitarian coordination since the flooding started has been poor, AlertNet reports (Nguyen, 5/10). As of February, about $1.2 billion of the U.N.'s $1.9 billion appeal had been received, according to the report, Reuters writes. Of the money received, only $720 million in aid has been delivered, the report said (5/9).
In an article looking at Baghdad Hospital, the Washington Post reports that "[i]t is difficult to overstate how far [the hospital] has come since the worst days of the war, when supplies were so scarce that doctors sometimes performed open heart surgery without gloves. ... Arriving at work was a small miracle: The hospital has lost at least 40 doctors to assassins since 2004
GlobalPost has published two articles on President Barack Obama's Global Health Initiative (GHI). "In a series of reports over the coming months from Washington and in capitals around the world, GlobalPost will examine the behind-the-scenes decisions in the Obama administration as well as what diplomats and health experts are doing now in several countries to try to bring to life this new, but what some say is a stumbling approach in global health," the publication writes.
The risk of dying in a natural disaster is decreasing worldwide, but the economic toll weather-related catastrophes inflict is rising "often due to a lack of investment," according to a new U.N. report released in Geneva on Tuesday, Reuters reports. According to the Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction, "[d]amage to infrastructure
A selection of opinions and editorials from various news organizations.
This research, along with other studies, was published today in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
ProPublica reports that these physicians say the heart society meeting is an important source of information about new research and products.
News outlets across the country report on developments in health policy.
More than half of the antipsychotics paid for by Medicare in the first half of 2007 were "erroneous," the audit found, costing the program $116 million during those six months.
That rejection marked the third since Community Health offered its first unsolicited bid in December.
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