Ford Pays Down Debt, Including To Workers’ Health Trust
Ford is paying off debt by the billions - $2 billion in the third quarter and as much as $3.6 billion by Friday - in a move that could end its obligation to its workers health trust.
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Ford is paying off debt by the billions - $2 billion in the third quarter and as much as $3.6 billion by Friday - in a move that could end its obligation to its workers health trust.
News organizations explore the health IT digital divide, a contract to build a new VA database and a health official's claim that the open data will revolutionize patient care.
A group of 29 physicians, convened by the American Medical Associations and often appointed by specialty trade groups, have the task of recommending how to divide Medicare money into payments for each service, procedure and treatment the program covers.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports that the new health law has Democrats playing defense, while Republicans offer few new alternatives.
In swing districts, incumbent Democrats who voted for the health law are struggling, as a new poll finds support for a repeal of the law.
Interest and anger about health care is fueling tension in political campaigns for offices ranging from insurance commissioner to U.S. senator.
A selection of today's opinions and editorials from across the U.S.
States address a range of health policy issues.
"Switzerland's innovative policy of providing drug addicts with free methadone and clean needles has greatly reduced deaths while cutting crime rates and should serve as a global model, health experts said on Monday," Reuters reports in an article that examines the outcomes resulting from drug policy reform in the country (Nebehay, 10/25).
"Officially opening the East, Central and Southern Africa (ECSA) forum on best practices and joint consultative meeting on Monday, [Zimbabwe Minister of Health and Child Welfare Henry] Madzorera said the shortage of health workers and the growing burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases had slowed down progress" toward achieving the U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), NewsDay reports.
The bivalent oral polio vaccine (bOPV) was found to induce a "significantly higher immune response" than the existing trivalent oral polio vaccine (tOPV), according to a study published on Tuesday in the journal Lancet, Reuters reports (Kelland, 10/26).
"Rising food prices and shortages could cause instability in many countries as the cost of staple foods and vegetables reached their highest levels in two years, with scientists predicting further widespread droughts and floods," the Guardian reports in a story examining the significance of rising food prices worldwide. The article points to several recent developments that have created cause for concern and includes quotes from global experts.
Inter Press Service examines recent changes at USAID in line with President Barack Obama's vision to help build "the capacity of developing countries so that they can develop themselves."
Walgreen is bowing out of the pharmacy-benefits management business to focus on retail, worksite medical clinics, and specialty pharmacy; drugmakers slammed for false marketing
Sharing electronic medical records may get easier; healthcare providers use iPads to view health data; health plans offer online health consultations; electronic health records vulnerable to unlawful perusal.
News outlets report on efforts to implement the new health law, including high risk pools and insurer brochures that summarize health plan offerings.
The Medicare program, "an indispensable safety net," is fiscally unsustainable as it drives the national debt higher each year, yet it may be politically untouchable, The Center for Public Integrity reports in the first of a multipart series.
The Wall Street Journal mined a database with extensive information about Medicare payments and discovered a New York City doctor who most likely took more than $2 million from Medicare. But such practices are generally difficult to find because of the database's strict confidentiality requirements.
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