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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.
Bill Gates, co-founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Carlos Slim, the "Mexican telecom magnate" and founder of the Carlos Slim Institute, announced Monday that they would work with Spain on a $150 million health initiative for people in Central America and Mexico, Agence France-Presse reports.
Although earlier health overhaul in Mass. extended coverage to most residents, the state is still wrestling with efforts to keep health care affordable.
A Center for Global Development (CGD) report released Tuesday details factors leading to increased drug resistance worldwide, including drug distribution programs in developing countries, Reuters reports. Expanded access to medicines is "clearly desirable," but it creates "challenges in preserving the efficacy of these drugs and ensuring they are used properly," the report says, noting that program operators
News outlets report on changes to the individual health insurance market and Medicare Advantage plans under the new health law.
The American Medical Association said Monday that private insurers pay 20 percent of physician claims incorrectly in its third annual 'report card' on the insurance industry.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports about the response to new federal rules regarding health insurance costs.
The Medicare program announced today that it will continue to hold claims to give Congress more time to act to avert a scheduled pay reduction.
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