Abortion Opponents Focusing Legislative Efforts On The Fetus
More than a dozen states have passed laws this year seeking to restrict abortions.
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First Edition: July 1, 2010
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including news about the launch of a government health insurance web site and the start of the high-risk health insurance pools mandated in the health reform law.
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Tracking Poll Finds Health Reform Law Gaining In Popularity
Results suggest the Obama administration's effort to promote the legislation may be paying off or that the public may be warming to the measure as provisions take effect.
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Top House Republicans Press For Health Reform Repeal While GOP Candidates, Personallities Offer Reform Criticism
News outlets report on a range of political developments related to the health reform law.
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CBO Director: Potential Health Law Savings Not Enough To Reduce Long-Term Deficits
The budget office's findings also suggest that, if Congress does not stick to some of the more difficult requirements of the health law, the fiscal picture will be even darker.
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Ambitious High-Risk Health Insurance Pools Supposed To Launch This Week
The Obama administration is about to kick off one of the earliest and most ambitious programs of the health care overhaul.
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Health Reform’s Early Retiree Reinsurance Program Accepting Applications; Other Overhaul Initiatives Get Attention
The Department of Health and Human Services announced Tuesday that it has started accepting applications for the early retiree reinsurance program.
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Judge Rules For Merck In State Vioxx Lawsuit Over Medicaid Payments
A federal judge ruled in favor of Merck & Co. Tuesday in a lawsuit brought by Louisiana trying to recoup what it paid when Medicaid patients used the company's withdrawn painkiller Vioxx, The Associated Press reports.
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Today’s OpEds: California Implements Health Reform; Government and Cost Controls, Rationing
Kaiser Health News presents a selection of Wednesday's opinions and editorials from around the country.
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Hospitals Struggling To Prove ‘Meaningful Use’ Of Electronic Health Records
News outlets report on efforts to implement electronic health records.
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Mass. Reports On People Who Buy Insurance Only When Sick; Wash. Board Considers Aiding Consumers Get ‘Plan B’ Referrals; ACLU Sues R.I. Over Electronic Records
States address a range of health care issues.
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Lawmakers, Others Worry About Stimulus Funds, Medicaid Money
As federal stimulus funds begin to run out, including the use of some to aid states meet swelling Medicaid rolls, lawmakers and others are worried that the U.S. economy could again stall, the Los Angeles Times reports.
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Whistleblower Complaints About WellCare Operations Unsealed In Florida
Three former employees allege the company hid profits in an offshorte subsidiary, cut costs by dropping coverage of sick patients, overbilled and used fraudulent documents to to increase its payments from Medicare and Medicaid.
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Health Spending Outpaces Economic Growth In Wealthy Countries
Health care spending has outpaced economic growth in industrialized nations, according to a new report by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
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Kagan Signals Legal Support For Health Law
Under questioning from Republican senators about law's mandate to get health coverage, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan noted that the Commerce Clause gives Congress broad authority in such areas.
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Lawmakers Urge Swifter Launch Of Home Health Care Demo
Democratic lawmakers are pushing the White House to launch a home health demonstration project as soon as possible.
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World Bank, WHO, UNAIDS Report Offers Comprehensive Look At HIV/AIDS In Middle East, N. Africa
The World Bank, WHO and UNAIDS on Monday released a joint report that pulls together data characterizing the HIV/AIDS epidemic from 23 countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, IRIN reports (6/30).
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WellPoint Warns 470,000 Insurance Applicants About Website Security Breach
Insurance company says consumers' Social Security numbers and other sensitive data may have been available to the public.
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Study: Medicare ‘Pay-For-Performance’ Could Increase Care Inequality
Medicare's plan to base hospital payments off quality-of-care assessments could harm vulnerable hospitals.
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