Latest KFF Health News Stories
Health Reform Brings Significant Changes To Medicare, Medicare Advantage
New outlets examine changes to Medicare with the new health reform law.
Hospitals Face Cuts, Restructuring To Cope With Flagging Economy
Hospitals in New York and Boston are coping with losses in their own ways.
Aid Groups Should Work To Make Haiti Self-Sufficient, Former President Clinton Says
Former President Bill Clinton asked aid groups working in Haiti on Thursday to focus on making the nation more self-sufficient, the Associated Press reports. Clinton, the U.N. special envoy to Haiti, spoke ahead of a U.N. donor conference on rebuilding Haiti next week.
COBRA Benefits In Danger Of Expiring As Lawmakers Fight Over Cost
Some unemployment benefits may soon expire as lawmakers fight over the cost of legislation that would extend health insurance coverage under COBRA for Americans struggling to find work.
Young Doctors Shifting Away From Private Practice, Primary Care Shortage Persists
News outlets report on changes in the practice of medicine and what health reform means for primary care doctors.
Administration Officials’ Key Health Reform Roles
News outlets report on the role of Obama administration officials and the health overhaul.
GOP Responds To Threats, Vandalism Over Health Care Legislation
Republicans reacted strongly to the flurry of threats and vandalism over the passage of health care overhaul, saying Democrats are trying to exploit the incidents.
Research Roundup: Middle Class Health Cost Burden, Disparities And Cancer, Summary Of New Health Law
This week’s research roundup has studies and briefs from Health Affairs, the Urban Institute, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, George Washington University, and the Kaiser Family Foundation, among others.
Today’s early morning highlights stories from major news organizations, including reports on congressional passage of the final piece of the health overhaul legislation, President Barack Obama’s trip to Iowa to tout the law’s benefits and some concerns raised by big business.
House Passes Final Piece Of Landmark Health Reform, 220-207
In the final act of the historic health reform of 2010, the House of Representatives tonight gave final approval to the compromise bill passed earlier in the day by the Senate.
Senate Passes Health Reform Reconciliation Bill, Sends It Back To House
By a vote of 56-43, the Senate passed the health reform reconciliation bill and sent the measure back to the House where members are expected to vote on it later today.
Obama Dares Republicans To Attempt Health Bill Repeal
President Obama travels to Iowa City for a rally where he first called for health care legislation as a candidate.
GOP’s Cantor Reports Someone Fired On His Office, Says Dems Are ‘Fanning The Flames’
Rep. Eric Cantor, the number 2 House Republican, accuses Democrats of using reports of violence for political gain.
Parties Vie For Political Momentum After Health Vote
News outlets analyze how the health care debate has already become a proxy for 2010 election fights, with candidates and leaders in both parties wielding the issue.
New Online Portal Aims To Comprehensively Track Global Aid Flow
“A new online information portal on aid flows around the world” aims to improve transparency and prevent billions of dollars in international aid from being misused, according to academics and aid officials who launched the tool at a conference, Reuters AlertNet reports. A working version of the portal became available for the public on Tuesday, the news service reports.
Obama Requests $2.8B In Emergency Funds For Haiti
President Barack Obama sent a letter (.pdf) to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) Wednesday asking the Congress “for $2.8 billion in emergency funds to provide for costs associated with relief and reconstruction for Haiti, after its devastating earthquake on January 12,” Reuters reports.
Civil Society Groups Urge G8 To Follow Through With AIDS Funding Commitments
“Civil society organisations from around the world on Wednesday made a coordinated appeal to the Canadian government to help pressure the Group of Eight (G8) into fulfilling its aid commitments in the fight against AIDS,” which are predicted to be over $20 billion short of commitments pledged by the G8 during the Gleneagles summit in 2005, the Mail & Guardian reports.
PAHO Documents Increase In Dengue Fever Cases In Latin America
Countries in Latin America “are bracing this year for a particularly virulent outbreak of the mosquito-borne tropical disease” known as dengue fever, after reports show an increase in the number of cases recorded this year, Agence France-Presse reports. “The Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO) said so far it has logged some 146,000 cases in the first three months of the year, of which 79 have been fatal. This time last year there were some 79,000 cases of dengue reported, with 26 deaths,” the news service writes.
States Challenge Health Insurance Coverage Mandate As Leaders Decide On Participation
States are considering joining calls and action to test the constitutionality of a health insurance coverage mandate in a health reform law.
