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Bloomberg reports that, for the National Institutes of Health budget, the past may not be prologue. In 1995, Newt Gingrich, then the speaker of the House, persuaded GOP lawmakers to spare this agency's funding and to protect research investments.
Modern Healthcare reports on a letter from a number of notable people from the patient-safety community expressing their support for the beleaguered and interim head of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
The actual repeal, according to the former House speaker and possible GOP presidential hopeful, will not take place until after the 2012 election is over. However, he adds that efforts to defund it will continue - and are likely to be successful - before that.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including continuing coverage of the health law's first anniversary.
News organizations are noting the one-year anniversary of the health law, and covering developments in the states.
Increasing rates of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) "are hampering world health programs aimed at tackling TB and threaten to wipe out progress made against the disease, scientists said on Friday," Reuters reports (Kelland, 3/18).
The Senate passed a continuing resolution on Thursday, which will now be sent to President Barack Obama for his signature, Roll Call reports. "The spending measure, which passed 87-13, would keep the government funded through April 8 and would cut $6 billion in spending" (Dennis, 3/17).
Delegates from 15 African countries this week concluded a three-day workshop held in Nairobi, Kenya, examining how countries can improve their efforts to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV, VOA News reports.
The Obama administration hopes the one-year anniversary of the health overhaul will offer a fresh opportunity to increase public support for the measure.
Republicans on the panel took issue with the 2012 start-up funding sought by the Department of Health and Human Services, though the long-term care program is one part of the health law Democrats have made clear they are open to refining. Meanwhile, Rep. Phil Gingrey, R-Ga., said he planned to introduce legislation that day - Thursday - to repeal the program.
Voters in a Pennsylvania poll expressed their opposition to the cuts proposed by the state's governor. Meanwhile, though, a number of states continue to wrestle with these spending challenges.
In the background, a number of issues continue to be in play. These include the continuing tensions surrounding efforts by some GOP lawmakers to defund Planned Parenthood and to repeal the health law's mandatory spending provisions. And, on a related note, issues related to reforming entitlement programs such as Medicare and Medicaid continue to draw attention.
Health care news from Texas, California, Kansas, Massachusetts, Arizona, Connecticut, Indiana and Minnesota.
A seleciton of opinions and editorials from around the country.
Reuters explores the related issues raised in a report released this week.
Today's studies come from the Archives of Internal Medicine, the Institute of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Annals of Family Medicine.
State officials from different political perspectives expressed interest in establishing health insurance exchanges, and an administration official promised "a wide berth" in how states choose to construct parts of the reform law.
The legislation, introduced by Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., and Rep. John Barrow, D-Ga., addresses how brokers are classified under the health law's medical loss ratio requirement.
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