Roundup: States’ Angst And Anger Continues About Medicaid, Health Spending Cuts
Other stories from the states include the high cost of incapacitated prisoners in California and details of a $11.3 million payout to a Blue Cross CEO in Massachusetts.
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Health Law’s Coverage Expansions Tally $118 Billion In State Costs, Republicans Say
House and Senate Republicans issued a report Tuesday in advance of a Capitol Hill hearing charging that the health law's expansion of Medicaid will come with a cost to states that is far more than congressional auditors estimated.
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Viewpoints: Obama’s ‘Flexibility’ Offer; Virginia’s Abortion Law ‘Mischief’; Primary Care Cuts
A selection of editorials and opinions from around the country.
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First Edition: March 2, 2011
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports about how, at a Capitol Hill hearing, some governors switched their emphasis from the flexibility issue to focus on the need for "immediate relief" from Medicaid's fiscal pressure.
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Barbour, Other Republicans Attack Medicaid Requirements, ‘RomneyCare’
Three governors testified before the Republican-controlled House Energy and Commerce Committee today, as the GOP released a report on Medicaid costs.
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Scientists At Retrovirus Conference Present Findings on Microbicide Gel, Truvada, Male Circumcision, ART Care By Nurses
At the annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Boston on Monday, researchers "suggested the potential" of a gel containing the antiretroviral drug tenofovir to reduce the risk of anal HIV transmission, TIME's "Healthland" blog reports. With previous trials showing the gel reduced HIV vaginal infection risk, "[r]esearchers have wanted to know whether the gel could protect against anal transmission of the virus, since the risk of infection from unprotected anal sex may be more than 20 times that of unprotected vaginal sex," according to the blog (Melnick, 2/28).
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Nations Meet To Negotiate International Food Aid Terms
A group of nations are meeting in London this week to negotiate the Food Aid Convention (FAC), an "international agreement that governs food-aid commitments to hungry countries," the Globe and Mail reports. Argentina, Australia, Canada, the European Union and its member states, Japan, Norway, Switzerland and the U.S. currently are included in the convention, which was last updated in 1999. Brazil, China, India, Russia and South Africa also would like FAC membership, according to the Globe and Mail.
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Obama Backs State Flexibility With Health Law Mandates
In remarks to the National Governors Association, President Barack Obama signaled support for moving up to 2014 from 2017 the date when states could get waivers to create their own plans to reach the overhaul's coverage goals.
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Budget Pressures, Health Law Expansions Trigger Medicaid Skirmishes
Policy proposals - such as turning the program into state block grants unencumbered by federal requirements, as well as the continuing push by some governors to relax maintenance of eligibility standards - are at the crux of these flare-ups.
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Market Demands Shape Health Sector Growth
The Wall Street Journal reports on how a string of recent acquisitions are being spurred by an increased demand for outpatient facilities and senior care. However, The Washington Post reports that some specific facilities - those that are doctor-owned, for instance - are sparking criticism.
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State News: Ariz. May Cut Fewer From Medicaid; Pa. AdultBasic Closes
A variety of state news from around the country.
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Court Case Question: Who Holds The Patent – Drug Company Or Research Institution
The Supreme Court will hear arguments in a patent dispute involved Standford University and a pharmaceutical company.
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Viewpoints: GOP Govs. On Medicaid ‘Flexibility’; ‘Attack’ On Planned Parenthood; Following Doctors’ Orders Not So Easy
Opinions and editorials today from the New York Times, The Boston Globe, USA Today, The Hill and The Wall Street Journal.
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Individual Mandate Analysis: Could It Be A Policy Nonstarter?
Politico reports on how some experts say the health law's individual mandate as written is not an effective tool to compel people to buy health insurance.
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LA Times: Blue Shield Terms Proposed Hikes ‘Reasonable’
The pending premium rate increases have been assailed by regulators.
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Obama Administration Urges Florida Judge To Clear Up Health Law Confusion
In its arguments for clarification from Federal District Court Judge Roger Vinson, the administration said this step is necessary so that they know how to proceed in defending the law and implementing its provisions.
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House Vote Is Set On Compromise To Prevent Government Shutdown
The measure, which would keep the federal government functioning until March 18, funds most programs at their current level. It does, however, trim $4 billion by targeting certain programs - but the health law is not "de-funded" in this plan. Still, governors are uneasy about the impact likely federal spending reductions will have on their budgets.
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First Edition: March 1, 2011
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including details about President Barack Obama's announcement yesterday that he will offer governors some flexibility with state health law mandates.
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Obama Says He Backs State Flexibility For Health Law’s Coverage Goals
During remarks to the National Governors Association, President Barack Obama expressed support for bipartisan legislation what would enable states to opt-out -- in 2014 instead of 2017 -- of some federal requirements put in place by the health law.
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