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In three recent polls, large percentages of Americans said the health law would cut Medicare benefits, slash doctors pay and ration health care to patients, all false claims that remain pervasive despite reform supporters' efforts to educate the public.
The U.N. appealed for $459.7 million on Wednesday "to aid flood victims in Pakistan as the magnitude of the disaster widened, with about one-fifth of the country submerged and the annual monsoon season still potent," the New York Times reports (MacFarquhar, 8/11).
The Australian reports on how four large businesses in India are looking to expand their ability to offer low-cost water purifiers to some of the country's "poorest of the poor."
Major pharmacy benefit managers, such as Medco and CVS Caremark, are dropping prices as the firms compete for clients.
The Federal Trade Commission is working with 24 states to stop sellers of medical discount plans that market it as health insurance.
Opinions mull the health overhaul's money saving potential - or lack there of - and birth control in China, among other things.
Five of the fifteen experts advising the WHO on H1N1 (swine flu) had ties to the pharmaceutical industry, "including for flu vaccine research," according to the Emergency Committee members' list released by the agency Wednesday, Agence France-Presse reports.
Companies like Visteon Corp., which have reorganized under Chapter 11, confront challenges with former employees regarding lifetime health benefits. Such battles have become more prevalent during the current economic downturn.
The New York Times reports on Rep. Paul Ryan, a rising GOP star, and how he could hold the key to governing and legislating in health care after the midterm November elections.
States address a range of health care policy issues.
Women's eNews looks at how women farmers are receiving more international recognition for their role in agriculture.
The U.S.-funded Haitian Apparel Center, which aims to train about 2,000 workers per year, was opened in the capital of Port-au-Prince on Wednesday, the Associated Press reports. The new center will help Haitian companies evolve from making "simple things, like sheets and T-shirts, to more complex garments," according to U.S. Ambassador Kenneth Merten. "And more complex garments mean higher profit margins and more money coming into the country," he added (Lush, 8/11).
Mobile clinics increasingly are a low cost option to provide medical care to the uninsured. At the same time, some groups pull together major free clinics that attract thousands of patients with health care needs.
President Obama signed a bill Tuesday that gives states an extra $16 billion in extra Medicaid funds which some governors say will help close budget gaps and preserve. Republicans call the bill an unnecessary bailout.
In light of the $26 billion aid package passed by Congress Tuesday, states are considering their next steps.
States address a range of health policy issues.
Opinion pages weigh the Medicare Trustees' report, the overhaul's preventive care provisions and California's oversight of insurance companies.
A study of 89 patients at one U.S. hospital has found that "doctors and patients are often not on the same page when discussing diagnoses and treatment," Reuters reports.
The Department of Health and Human Services has mailed out a third round of $250 checks to help seniors who enter the Medicare Part D coverage pay gap for prescription drugs.
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