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An accountability report, prepared by officials in G8 member countries' foreign affairs departments, acknowledges that G8 "countries are $10 billion behind the five-year, $50-billion commitment they made at their 2005 summit in Scotland," the Canadian Press/CTV News reports (6/20).
A sluggish economy, changing government regulation and court cases have prompted new business strategies at hospitals, according to news reports.
Thousands of protesters in Pretoria, South Africa, Thursday "demand[ed] the U.S. increase its AIDS funding for Africa," the Associated Press reports (Naki, 6/17). The protesters delivered a letter to the consulate saying the U.S. is "cutting funding to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria," which health advocates believe could lead "other countries to follow suit and reduce funding for the fight against HIV," Agence France-Presse writes (6/17). The protests were organized by the Treatment Action Campaign and the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) together with a range of civil society organizations, Mail & Guardian reports.
The federal government is spending $11 billion on community health centers over five years. Mary Wakefield, administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, tells The Washington Post that federal officials expect the number of people seen in health centers to double.
News outlets report on questions about the efficacy and safety of certain medical devices.
Patients who recyle back into the hospital for same problem or unrelated complaints strain system and increase costs. New federal health law seeks to get hospitals to cut the number of patients who have to be readmitted.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including an exploration of the impact of Medicare payment rates on physicians, an analysis of the fate of the COBRA subsidy and how an innovation may offer a medical malpractice fix.
The Senate passed a bill Friday to block the 21 percent cuts to Medicare physician pay, after failing Thursday to pass a larger bill extending tax and jobless benefits that also included the Medicare provision.
Republicans were successful in blocking a smaller package of jobless benefits, state Medicaid aid and a 'fix' to a 21 percent cut in Medicare payments to physicians. But several senators say a compromise could happen today.
Motion filed in Florida federal court seeks to end suit by 20 states that argues new health law cannot require people to buy insurance.
A report from the anti-poverty group ActionAid finds that less than one-third of the $22 billion that was pledged to improve food security during a 2009 G8 meeting in L'Aquila, Italy, is from new funding sources, the U.K. Press Association reports (6/18).
Resistance to artemisinin-based malaria medications seems to be spreading beyond western Cambodia, where it was first detected, U.S. global malaria coordinator Timothy Ziemer said during a visit to the region this week for a conference, Agence France-Presse reports.
Kaiser Health News presents a selection of Thursday's opinions and editorials from around America.
"The Obama administration has selected eight countries to serve as learning labs for a new global health strategy aimed in part at reducing maternal and child deaths and combatting preventable diseases," the Wall Street Journal reports. "The move is among the first steps in the administration's" roll-out of the Global Health Initiative (GHI) and "comes amid mounting concerns about how much support President Barack Obama will win from Congress for a proposed 9% increase in global health spending for fiscal 2011," the newspaper reports.
If increased federal support for Medicaid isn't extended, states will have to fill budget holes next year that many legislatures have not anticipated.
This week's research roundup includes studies and briefs from the Archives of Internal Medicine, Health Affairs, Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Commonwealth Fund, the Kaiser Family Foundation, the CDC and the National Center for Policy Analysis.
States address a host of health care policy issues.
News outlets report on efforts to reduce hospital wait times and readmission rates.
A settlement for post 9/11 workers who became ill faces new hurdles, The Wall Street Journal reports.
Rep. Jim Matheson, D-Utah, is facing a still-angry progressive base in a Florida as he pushes for re-election after his "no" vote on health reform legislation, Politico reports. And in the Florida governor race, Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum said Wednesday "he was 'appalled' by the candidacy of health care executive Rick Scott, according to Politico.
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