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Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports about the President's scheduled meeting with insurance executives, more details regarding health reform's implementation and the upcoming departure of the Obama administration's budget chief.
The Senate Friday passed a six-month "doc fix" to Medicare reimbursement rates for doctors, but physicians and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi were quick to criticize the plan.
An expired COBRA subsidy extension to allow the recently laid off to afford to keep their former employer's health insurance and enhanced federal funding for state Medicaid programs remain in limbo as lawmakers work at a measured pace to extend other unemployment benefits.
Kaiser Health News presents a selection of Thursday's opinions and editorials from around America.
Los Angeles Times reports that Walgreens will stay in Caremark's prescription network after negotiations reached a settlement between the two pharmacy chains.
The (Jacksonville) Florida Times-Union reports that as high-risk insurance pools are preparing to enroll the chronically ill July 1, officials should heed a similar experience in Florida.
States deal with a host of health care policy issues.
A New York judge's unusual technique - listening to the families of injured people, knowing something about medicine - for dealing with difficult medical malpractice cases will be among 20 explored with $3 million grants as part of the health overhaul.
President Obama and members of Congress are demanding that Medicare and law enforcement officials "do more to stem the wasted healthcare dollars gushing out of the Treasury," Modern Healthcare reports.
Help from the new health law may not come soon enough for many Americans.
Health leaders from around the world gathered on Friday to formally launch a new strategy for eradicating polio, Newsweek's "The Human Condition" blog reports in a post examining the challenges and successes health advocates face in attempting to wipe the virus out completely (Carmichael, 6/18).
The WHO on Friday issued "its first-ever guidance on how to use more than 240 essential medicines for children under 13," the Associated Press reports. "The data provide information on use, dosage and side effects of medicines as well as warnings about which children should not take them" and possible complications from interactions from drugs taken together, according to the WHO, the news service reports (6/19).
Former President Bill Clinton along with Mexican telecom executive Carlos Slim and Frank Guistra, a Canadian "mining magnet," on Thursday announced "a $20 million fund to help support the expansion and creation of small- and medium-size Haitian businesses," the Miami Herald reports.
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.
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