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President Barack Obama will take his message on the road with a "series of campaign-style stops" in an effort to block a Republican deficit-reduction blueprint that would dramatically change Medicare and other social programs.
News outlets report on Republican plans to stop the sweeping health overhaul - ranging from Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli's push for the Supreme Court to "fast track" its consideration of legal challenges to congressional plans for defunding the law - as well as how Democrats are ginning up their message machines to counter these attacks.
Kansas Health Institute News provides some expert advice for small and rural health care providers who are shopping for an electronic health record vendor.
Stateline explores this central Medicaid question, which has become one of Washington's most controversial issues.
The freeze was lifted on Friday in response to concerns about rising violence in the state's system.
A selection of opinions and editorials from around the country.
In other workforce news, a new law is working its way through the California Senate that would require background checks and "elementary care instruction" for all workers who help out in seniors' homes.
The Henry Medical Center announced last week that it would enter partnership talks with Piedmont Healthcare.
The Boston Globe reports that Dr. Marc Bard, along with Michael Nugent, has authored a new book in hopes of helping to make health care cheaper and better.
Today's news includes reports from California, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Connecticut, Washington and Oregon.
The Center for Public Integrity reports that the medical device lobby is working hard to see that one of five pending pieces of legislation that would overturn the existing tax will make it into law.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including a report about President Barack Obama's effort to rally support for his deficit reduction plan and to block GOP changes to Medicare and other social programs.
The vice chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Health subcommittee says Republicans see gains from their efforts already.
And in his Saturday weekly address, the president called the GOP plan 'wrong for America.'
Massachusetts is debating a different way to pay for health care as the health law calls for more coordination of care as an integral part of controlling health care inflation.
A draft agreement that would ensure countries would share virus samples in exchange for access to affordable vaccines derived from such samples in the event of a pandemic is nearly complete, senior diplomats told Reuters on Thursday. "Consensus has been reached across all regions, including Indonesia which three years ago stopped sharing influenza samples with the World Health Organization (WHO), but the United States has yet to give formal approval, they said," according to the news service.
Ann Veneman, the former executive director of UNICEF, "took a seat on the board of Swiss food and drinks company Nestle SA on Thursday" and said she plans to look into whether the company has adopted a WHO code on breast milk, the Associated Press/Washington Post reports.
"World Bank President Robert Zoellick on Thursday warned of rising food inflation and high oil prices resulting from political turmoil in the Middle East as risks to world growth, as they threaten to push more people into poverty," the Wall Street Journal's "Dispatch" blog reports.
Aid groups on Thursday praised the release of an updated handbook to guide humanitarian response efforts, including a new chapter on protection principles, IRIN reports.
Congress approved a final FY11 budget measure on Thursday, The Hill reports. "The House voted 260-167 to approve the legislation ... The Senate signed off hours later on a vote of 81-19, sending the bill to Obama for his signature" (Berman, 4/14).
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