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The measure would still provide $16.1 billion in phased-down Medicaid assistance for states, but has been adjusted to offset the bill's new estimated cost and to address concerns of key Republicans.
After the Congressional Budget Office informed Senate Democrats that they were still short of the necessary offsets, Senate leaders Monday night opted to postpone a planned vote until Wednesday.
Voters will go to the polls today and voice their opinions on a question for which the answer is sure to send a political message.
South Asia is "lagging behind" in poverty and hunger reduction and is "in danger" of missing key Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets, a U.N. official told Asian ministers gathered to discuss MDGs progress, Agence France-Presse reports. At the meeting, "senior officials told delegates from dozens of countries that global food, energy and financial crises in recent years had jeopardized progress toward achieving the goals set for 2015," the news service writes.
The message that U.S. investments in global health "helps advance longer term security and development goals" while also supporting a "small but growing industry with good paying jobs and world class research" was the focus of a recent meeting between officials from Washington, D.C. and Washington State, the Seattle Times' "Business of Giving" blog writes.
With reports that ongoing negotiations between India and the European Union are expected to end in a free-trade agreement "by the end of August," Inter Press Service examines concerns among drug manufacturers and exporters over how the agreement might reduce growth in India's generic medicines industry.
A New York Times profile of Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., details the rising Republican star's positions on health care and social programs, among other things.
A back-and-forth between the White House and insurers is one example of how the transition to a new health system under the overhaul law could be a bumpy process.
States address a range of health care policy issues.
Kaiser Health News presents a selection of Tuesday's opinions and editorials from across the country.
Clinics and hospitals are increasingly switching to electronic medical records as a federal push to spread the technology sweeps across the nation.
Children's hospitals and certain other medical centers are now eligible for drug discounts in Medicaid as a new program began accepting enrollees Monday.
Humana's profits jumped 21 percent in the second quarter.
Lawmakers are trying to bridge the gap between colleagues on the left and right in a bid to provide greater health coverage for 9/11 workers, The Wall Street Journal reports.
A study in the journal Health Affairs of patients with heart problems finds that those treaeted by foreign-born international medical graduates had the lowest death rates.
In a ruling issued Monday, federal judge Henry Hudson refused to dismiss the lawsuit filed by Virginia challenging a key aspect of the health care overhaul. The next round of arguments in this case is scheduled for October.
CMS report says new health law will save Medicare $575 billion over a decade, but conservative critics say the assessment is an attempt to gain seniors' support for the law.
General Electric Co. and Intel Corp. announced Monday they will create a company to provide new medical technologies for the elderly and chronically ill.
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