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Democrats and Republicans are bracing for the next round of confrontations over federal spending, which will include issues involving the future of entitlement programs as well as the debt ceiling.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports about a new long-term budget vision President Barak Obama is poised to unveil this week. It will include everything from Medicare and Medicaid to tax hikes for the wealthy.
The president will outline his vision Wednesday on federal deficit reduction, focusing on entitlement programs.
Democrats agree, however, to Republican demands for separate Senate votes on defunding the health law and cutting off federal contributions to Planned Parenthood.
With the government shutdown looming, this specific funding issue has emerged as one of the issues keeping Democrats and Republicans from reaching an agreement on the current-year spending bill.
To coincide with World Health Day on Thursday, the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) released a policy paper with nine recommendations for how to control the "ever-growing threat of antimicrobial resistance," CIDRAP News reports (Roos, 4/7).
The U.S. health system is "ill-prepared to cope with a catastrophic release of radiation, despite years of focus on the possibility of a terrorist 'dirty bomb' or an improvised nuclear device attack," according to U.S. officials, the Washington Post reports.
The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Thursday that world food prices dropped last month for the first time in eight months, "but it warned that prices may resume rising as higher output may not be enough to replenish low stock levels," the Wall Street Journal reports (Henshaw, 4/7).
The U.N. needs the U.S. to continue providing strong financial support, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told U.S. lawmakers in Washington on Thursday, "as President Barack Obama and Congress negotiate federal budget cuts to try to avoid a government shutdown," Reuters reports. "We need to have robust financial support from the United States," Ban said (Cornwell/Alexander, 4/7).
With the high-stakes negotiations currently at an impasse, the differences among the GOP, Democrats and the White House involve more than just the total dollar figure attached to spending cuts. Meanwhile, without resolution, a government shutdown is just hours away.
News outlets report on how the plan to privatize Medicare may actually increase costs and how the GOP plan could turn out to be a "front-burner" issue during the presidential primary.
A variety of opinions, editorials and analyses from news organizations around the country.
Today's studies come from Health Affairs, the Commonwealth Fund, the Kaiser Family Foundation, RAND, the Urban Institute and the Government Accountability Office.
In a first-of-its-kind report, the government is recommending steps states can take to reduce these differences.
Politico reports on what some states would do differently if Medicaid funding was transformed into a block grant.
Today's reports include articles from Massachusetts, Florida, Texas, New York, California, Minnesota, Connecticut, Colorado, Arizona, Georgia and Kansas.
Also in the news, The Sacramento Bee reports that an executive from Catholic Healthcare West has abruptly resigned.
Physicians for a National Health Program suggest the proposal in Vermont falls "far short" of their goals, The Hill Reports. Meanwhile, The Boston Globe has an interview with one of the architects of the Vermont plan.
The Connecticut Mirror reports on this workforce trend in which doctors give up ownership of their own small practices in order to join larger group practices.
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