State Round-Up: Tenn. Lawmakers Fail To Pass Bill To Opt Out Of Health Care Law; Mass. Officials Continue To Study Hospital Sale
States address a range of health policy issues.
Archives: Morning Breakouts
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Start-Up Seeks To Provide Consumers With Health Care Comparison Shopping Guide
Companies seek to fill the current information gap by helping consumers obtain comparitive pricing information related to health care services.
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States Worry About Whether Congress Will Extend Extra Medicaid Funding
Mass. delegation urges colleagues to support enhanced Medicaid funding, while state lawmakers in North Carolina and Colorado begin to target budget cuts that would be needed if extra federal funding doesn't come through.
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Internal Medicine Board Sanctions Doctors For Cheating On Certification Tests; APA To Issue Conflict-Of-Interest Guidelines
The American Board of Internal Medicine has sanctioned 139 doctors for cheating on exams it uses for board certifications, CQ HealthBeat reports.
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Florida GOP Gov. Candidate Surges Despite Questions About Involvement In Medicare Fraud Case
Opponents of Florida GOP gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott are questioning Scott's involvement with a health care fraud case when he was the CEO for Columbia/HCA hospital. Politifact Florida/The Miami Herald review his role.
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States Keep Watch Over Insurers Rate Hikes, Solvency As Overhaul Sets Roots
Massachusetts officials are imposing stricter oversight of insurers they say are financially unstable after refusing to allow them to increase premium rates.
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U.S. Judge Approves $712.5 Million Settlement For 9/11 Responders’ Health Problems
The deal must still be approved by rescue and recovery workers. In addition, the workers at Ground Zero will have to choose between this settlement and legislation now pending in Congress.
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Thousands Of Minnesota Nurses Strike For One Day
More than 12,000 nurses walked off the job at hospitals in the Minneapolis area Thursday in a contract dispute about nurse-patient ratios and pension benefits.
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First Edition: June 11, 2010
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations include reports that the federal government will begin handing out $25 million in grants to reduce medical malpractice lawsuits, that health industry leaders are pressing the White House to step up its role in promoting health care innovation and details of a nurses' one-day strike in Minnesota.
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Senate Dems Point To Medicare Rebate Checks To Improve Health Law’s Image
Meanwhile, some GOP lawmakers are expressing opposition to a targeted Medicare doctor payment provision included in the tax extender bill.
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Due to KHN staff training, the Daily Report will not be published today. Check First Edition for today’s health policy headlines and look for the report again on June 11.
Due to special staff training, the KHN Daily Report will not be published. Check First Edition for today's health policy headlines.
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First Edition: Senate Democrats Continue Pursuit Of Support For Jobs Bill — Which Includes Medicare Doc ‘Pay Fix’ And Help For States With Medicaid Costs
Kaiser Health News provides highlights from today's headlines, including various state level health policy developments and the latest on the pending jobs bill.
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WHO Director-General Responds To Criticisms Over Agency’s H1N1 Response
WHO Director-General Margaret Chan on Tuesday rejected recent criticisms that her decisions to declare H1N1 (swine flu) a pandemic were impacted by her advisers' link to the pharmaceutical industry, the Associated Press reports.
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Women Deliver Conference Concludes
The Women Deliver conference concluded on Wednesday, as attendees "celebrated benchmark achievements in reducing maternal and infant mortality and faced stubborn failures at the same time," Womens eNews reports. Advocates were "able to savor success stories in countries such as Sri Lanka and Malawi ... But the Women Deliver conference also offered a forum for tales of women still dying [from] preventable childbirth deaths and of inadequate access to family planning services for 215 million women worldwide," the news service writes (Kramer, 6/10).
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Global Fund Releases Mid-Year Results for HIV, TB, Malaria
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria announced mid-year results for HIV and TB treatment as well as for insecticide-treated net (ITN) distribution, Sify News reports. According to the report, by mid-2010 Global Fund-financed programs have:
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First Edition: Obama Appeals To Seniors; Senate And Jobs Bill; Berwick Controversy Continues
News outlets followed President Obama's speech about health reform, Reid's confidence on passage of the jobs bill with the Medicare "doc fix" and a judge barred thousands of nurses from striking.
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USAID’s Policy Bureau Takes Shape
Plans for USAID's new Bureau of Policy Planning and Learning are moving ahead, Foreign Policy's blog, "The Cable" reports.
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