Wednesday’s OpEds: Berwick Nomination; Health Reform Costs And Benefits; Medicaid And COBRA In Jobs Bill
Kaiser Health News presents a selection of Wednesday's opinions and editorials from around America.
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Kaiser Health News presents a selection of Wednesday's opinions and editorials from around America.
At least $967 million in federal funds went to family planning organizations over the past eight years, study finds. Republicans say money allows groups to use other donations to perform abortions but Planned Parenthood official says funding provides crucial health care for the uninsured.
The Associated Press reports on hospital industry lobbying in the first quarter of 2010.
An effort by House Republicans to overturn the new health law's requirement that Americans get insurance failed Tuesday.
In other fraud prevention efforts, Medicare will scrutinize new payment models for fraud potential.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including the latest Senate developments regarding the Medicare 'doc fix' as well as continuing health reform implementation news.
The second-generation labor advocate helped steer the union through difficult automaker bankruptcies and pushed for the health overhaul.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid filed a motion Monday to stop debate on a $140 billion bill that includs extending unemployment benefits, enhanced Medicaid payments and a fix for Medicare pay to doctors. The move suggests Reid thinks he is close to having the votes for passage.
AMA members express displeasure about inaction by sending Congress hundreds of signed white lab coats.
NPR reports that both Democrats and Republicans are continuing efforts to use the health reform law to their advantage as the American public sorts outs its feelings on the subject.
Kaiser Health News presents a selection of Tuesday's opinions and editorials from around America.
Insurance giant WellPoint has unveiled a plan to give members access to doctors and other health care providers via the Internet.
The guidance details ways in which health plans could lose the special status that exempts them from complying with the health law.
PricewaterhouseCoopers has found that employer health costs will rise 9 percent in 2011, slightly less than they rose in 2010.
The U.S. State Department on Monday released its 2010 report on human trafficking, which "grades 175 nations on their efforts to fight this modern form of slavery," Bloomberg Businessweek reports (Ten Kate/Gaouette, 6/15).
Even cancer screening advocates note that the ability to differentiate which tumors are dangerous is a key piece missing from the prevention arsenel.
States address a range of health policy issues.
"The first test of a long-acting vaginal ring loaded with an HIV-preventing drug has begun enrolling women in southern Africa," the Washington Post reports. The study, according to the newspaper, marks the 15th trial led by the non-profit group, International Partnership for Microbicides (IPM), which "has helped lead the search for a discreet, woman-controlled means of protection" against the virus.
A new study ranking the social mission of medical schools puts historically black schools on top and many Northeast private schools at the bottom.
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