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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid promises Netroots Nation convention that a public option will pass, the Miami Herald/McClathy News Service. "It's a question of when," he says.
"The Department of Veterans Affairs will formally allow patients treated at its hospitals and clinics to use medical marijuana in states where it is legal, a policy clarification that veterans have sought for several years," The New York Times reports.
The new health law requires "insurers to spend at least 80 cents out of every dollar they collect in premiums on the welfare of patients, a critical issue for the companies' bottom lines. But state regulators are only now deciding what precisely that means," The New York Times reports.
Several insurance commissioners say some companies are dropping or considering ending plans that handle only children because of added costs from new health law, but at least one insurer, UnitedHealth Care, denies the report.
Ahead of the final day of the International AIDS Conference-AIDS 2010 on Friday, a New York Times analysis piece reports that growing concerns over funding for HIV/AIDS have dominated the focus of the conference. According to the newspaper, this has affected "organizers' efforts to get publicity for the Vienna Declaration, which calls for drug users to be spared arrest and offered clean needles, methadone and treatment if they have AIDS."
African countries should focus on preventing diarrhea
Insurance companies are banding together to weaken a key health law rule that requires them to spend as much as 85 percent of their revenues on medical care according to the advocacy group Health Care for America Now.
The Obama administration issued regulations addressing a top consumer gripe with insurance companies: the rejected claim.
UnitedHealth Group's technology consulting subsidiary Ingenix has purchased Massachusetts tech firm Picis, a maker of emergency room and intensive care software.
Kaiser Health News presents a selection of Friday's opinions and editorials from across the country.
The Chicago Tribune reports that the American Civil Liberties Union says in court papers that some for-profit nursing home operators are using "scare tactics" to persuade psychiatric patients to stay in their facilities.
"The number of soldiers forced to leave the Army solely because of a mental disorder has increased by 64% from 2005 to 2009 and accounts for one in nine medical discharges, according to Army statistics," USA Today reports.
States address a range of health care policy issues.
In heated campaign, Maryland's lieutenant governor touts efforts to find fraud in state Medicaid program.
President Barack Obama signed legislation Thursday that aims "to take on fraudulent and improper government spending that he said diverts money from important priorities," the Los Angeles Times reports.
This week's research roundup includes studies and briefs from the Journal of the American Medical Association, the Annals of Internal Medicine, the American Enterprise Institute, PLoS Medicine, the Urban Institute, the Commonwealth Fund, and the Annals of Family Medicine.
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