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Meanwhile, The Seattle Times reports on an effort in Washington state to "clamp down" on unregulated elder-care referral businesses that promise to help families make arrangements for long-term care for aging relatives.
A hospital acquisition in Georgia has drawn challenges by the state's attorney general and the Federal Trade Commission. Meanwhile, the drama surrounding Community Health's take-over bid of Tenet Healthcare Corp. continues.
The New York Times reports that medical experts are disputing the position taken by a hospital regarding a heart device.
This week's articles come from the Huffington Post, National Review, The Nation, Slate, American Medical News, Hospitals and Health Networks and Modern Healthcare.
News today from Idaho, California, Lousiana, Connecticut, Texas, Florida, Iowa, Minnesota and Kansas.
A selection of opinions and editorials from around the country.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports about President Barack Obama's Facebook visit during which he stepped up his criticism of GOP plans to overhaul Medicare and Medicaid but said he expects to strike a deal to reduce the deficit.
One in eight children living with HIV/AIDS "experiences triple-class virological failure
U.N. agencies have begun providing humanitarian assistance in the western region of Libya for the first time since civil unrest began in February, following an April 17 agreement between the organization and the Libyan government to allow a "humanitarian corridor," Bloomberg reports (Varner, 4/19).
A WHO team has visited the western region of Cote d'Ivoire to assess damage to the medical system and identify ways to improve access to care, following months of violence after the country's presidential election last year, U.N. News Centre reports.
Meanwhile, as the budget debate in Washington heats up, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has started airing ads attacking GOP Rep. Paul Ryan's plan to overhaul Medicare.
Many critics say the payments are motivated by politics because the cash infusion will prevent service cuts that could have been a "headache" for Democrats in the next election cycle.
A selection of opinions and editorials from around the country.
The new strategy will put increased pressure on the state of Florida, which has a reputation as being "the nation's pill mill."
Although the spending still increased, it did so in 2010 at 2.3 percent, a slower rate than in 2009, when the growth rate was 5.1 percent.
For health professionals, this new landscape offers a multitude of patient privacy challenges.
Colorado and Texas lawmakers tussle over setting up the marketplaces called for in the health care law.
An analysis of Medicare data concluded that these patients are being released from the hospital sooner but more return to the hospital within 30 days.
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