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TIME reports on an oral cholera vaccination program to kick off on Thursday in Bangladesh that researchers hope will determine how good of a "weapon" the mass vaccination strategy can be "against an old disease" (Marshall, 2/15).
USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah on Tuesday delivered a speech at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) where he reaffirmed President Barack Obama's commitment to the 6-year $63 billion Global Health Initiative (GHI) and discussed the USAID's role in bolstering U.S. global health programs, CIDRAP News reports.
President Obama acknowledged Tuesday that more needs to be done to resolve the nation's long-term budget problems and he signaled an interest in working toward a compromise with Republicans.
House Republican lawmakers are continuing work on ratcheting down spending in the current year continuing resolution to fund the federal government. Some discretionary health programs are feeling the heat.
Among the strategies being used are efforts to change rules, revise definitions, tighten anti-fraud efforts and cut services.
Health care news from around the states, including from Iowa, Massachusetts, Colorado, Georgia and Maryland.
Meanwhile, in other news related to health reform, the Internal Revenue Service is seeking $119 million in new funds in order to enforce the tax-related provisions of the health overhaul.
But CQ HealthBeat reports that the government's top Medicare and Medicaid fraud buster told a Senate panel that the current-year spending plan being advanced by House Republicans could undermine the fed's efforts to reduce waste, fraud and abuse in the health care system.
The grants, which are to be used to set up the framework for the health law's state insurance exchanges, will reportedly go to Kansas, Maryland, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, Wisconsin and a consortium led by Massachusetts.
Both Committee Chairman Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., and Ranking Member Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, pushed for an overhaul of Medicare's physician payment formula. Meanwhile, Baucus is not "ready to commit" to hold confirmation hearings for the head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
In related news, a House panel approved legislation that restricts federal funding for abortions for any programs that are part of the new health law.
In a letter to Arizona's governor, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius wrote that a federal waiver is not necessary to proceed with the state's plan. Sebelius did not approve of the waiver request.
Editorials and opinions from around the country.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports about the budget back-and-forth between President Obama and congressional Republicans -- with an emphasis on Medicare and Medicaid as major drivers of long-term deficit growth.
On Monday, the same day the GAVI Alliance helped oversee the roll out of a routine pneumococcal vaccine in Kenya, GAVI chairman Dagfinn Hoybraten highlighted the need for greater reductions in vaccine prices in developing countries during an interview with Reuters, the news service reports. The piece examines the funding mechanism in place to finance the pneumococcal vaccines, known as Advance Market Commitment (AMC), as well as the budget shortfall facing the group (Kelland, 2/14).
"Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday afternoon that the spending levels outlined by House Republicans late last week for the remainder of the fiscal year would endanger the country's national security," the Washington Post's "44" blog reports.
President Barack Obama "released his budget proposal for fiscal year 2012 on Monday," the New York Times reports (Calmes, 2/14). The president's "fiscal 2012 budget allocates $47 billion for the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development, which reflects only a 1 percent increase over 2010 levels for the core budget," National Journal writes (Sorcher, 2/14).
Although reports indicate President Barack Obama's proposed budget would reduce the deficit by more than $1 trillion over 10 years, it did not offer major changes to Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security - which total about 40 percent of federal spending.
Critics said the method used in the budget blueprint would cause serious problems. But some news reports indicate the inclusion of this Medicare "doc fix" would help build support within the physician community for the president's health care agenda.
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