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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.
The national list will highlight people and organizations that should not get government benefits, contracts, grants or loans, The Washington Post reports.
The medication, called ella, helps prevent pregnancy up to five days after unprotected sex. But abortion opponents criticized the drug, saying it keeps a fertilized egg from implanting in the uterus.
Only one in ten respondents to a Harris Interactive survey use electronic medical records or interact with their doctors by e-mail.
Democrats are looking at proposals to crack down on licensing agreements between drug companies that keep generic drugs out of the market, Politico reports.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including the latest on the Senate's continuing jobs bill impasse and a possible emerging "doc fix" deal.
Though genetic testing is already available to consumers - at costs sometimes in the thousands of dollars - the information they provide isn't always supported by evidence and may be misleading.
Senate Republicans fail to revise Democrats' jobless benefits and tax extenders package, which includes a provision to stop a pending 21 percent cut in Medicare pay to doctors.
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