USA Today: Uninsured Hospitalizations Result In A Hefty Unpaid Tab
The unpaid costs of hospitalizations is estimated to be as much as $49 billion.
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The unpaid costs of hospitalizations is estimated to be as much as $49 billion.
News outlets report on developments in state Medicaid policies.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., plans to introduce legislation to establish a single-payer health care system. His measure comes on the heels of a successful push within his state to implement single-payer. This step, however, adds to federal-level interest in allowing states waivers to pursue their own reforms.
One of his main themes was the need for "honest conversations" about how to control the costs of the Medicare program - a statement some viewed as a signal that the GOP is still committed to restructuring at least some elements of the health insurance program for the elderly.
The AP reports that, as unlikely as it may seem, the Obama administration and congressional Republicans may share some common ideas regarding Medicare costs. Still, the issue of how to address the programs - and the related proposals - still are causing rifts within the GOP.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including advance reports on today's appeals court action surrounding challenges to the health law.
Foreign affairs ministers and representatives of international organizations, who met in Rome for the second meeting of the Libya Contact Group, "agreed to create a new funding mechanism to support humanitarian action and reconstruction in Libya," Devex's blog "The Development Newswire" reports.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday in Istanbul opened the Fourth U.N. Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) "to discuss a new 10-year aid plan to help lift nations out of poverty," Agence France-Presse reports (5/9).
The U.S. has pledged an additional $8.5 million to relief efforts in Cote d'Ivoire after post-election violence led to hundreds of thousands of internally displaced people and refugees, Devex reports.
Actress Julia Roberts will serve as a global ambassador for the Alliance for Clean Cookstoves and join Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's effort "to introduce 100 million clean cookstoves around the world by 2020, the State Department said Friday," Agence France-Presse reports.
News outlets report on the fits and starts of the ongoing budget deficit talks, including how plans for Medicare's future are faring and how politics are heating up - both in Washington and in a special congressional election beyond the Beltway.
Arguments in the two cases, which are the first two challenges to the Obama administration's health overhaul to advance from the federal to appellate level, mark the beginning in what some say is a race to the Supreme Court.
A selection of analyses, opinions and editorials from around the country.
News outlets across the country report on developments in health policy.
A survey conducted by the Massachusetts Medical Society found patients can wait as a long as a month and a half for non-urgent physicians' appointments.
Meanwhile, in Oregon, GOP lawmakers may be stepping back from their tort reform push.
With lawmakers' attention on fiscal concerns and efforts to trim health programs, the AP reports that TRICARE also could face some changes.
News outlets report on efforts in some states to meet provisions of the new health law.
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