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Senate Democrats continue to look for 60 votes to pass a bill this week that includes a reversal of scheduled cuts to Medicare doctor payments and more Medicaid help for states. Two senators want to include an extension of COBRA subsidies as well.
Before the health overhaul became law, President Barack Obama promised people who liked their health coverage could keep it, and the law included a 'grandfather' clause to protect existing plans that don't meet the provisions in the new law.
A new study says more than 2 million U.S. cancer survivors put off medical care because of concerns about cost.
A PricewaterhouseCoopers report suggests a leap in the portion of health costs paid directly by employees will leave the majority of the American workforce with deductibles of $400 or more for the first time next year.
A fissure has developed in the American Medical Association, the powerful physicians' lobby that backed the health reform bill earlier this year, about support for the sweeping measure, according to news reports.
Kaiser Health News presents a selection of Monday's opinions and editorials from around America.
IRIN reports on the Global Food Security Act, a bill aimed at expanding the U.S. government's role in combatting hunger around the world. The legislation is co-sponsored by Sens. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) and Bob Casey (D-Pa.).
New outlets continued to report on the Women Deliver conference, which wrapped up last week. As the conference closed, Women Deliver President Jill Sheffield said advocates would address the economic dimensions of maternal mortality, the BBC reports. "Finance ministers are on our list
State roundup: Even states fighting health law in court prepare to implement new provisions; New York hospitals decry state funding cuts; Conn. hospitals fear Medicare cuts; Kansas Democratic gubernatorial candidate bashes Sen. Brownback's opposition to extra federal funding of Medicaid.
After voting no on the health reform bill earlier this year, Rep. John Barrow, D-Ga., has gotten significantly less support for colleagues in his re-election bid, The Hill reports.
Republicans are complaining that, while the IRS sent out 4 million fliers to publicize $40 billion in tax credits for small businesses, the agency did not make a similar effort to inform tanning salons and their customers about a new 10 percent tax on their services.
Americans get more radiation than people in any other country and the average American's dose has grown sixfold over the past decades, the Associated Press reports.
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Sunday invited several leaders from Africa, the Caribbean and South America "to a meeting on development and security issues, to be held on the sidelines of the G8 summit later this month," Agence France-Presse reports.
About 40 percent of doctors are older than the age of 55 and a third of nurses are 50 or older and they will be looking to retire in the next 10 years or so, The Washington Post reports.
Seventy-seven countries do not have a blood donation rate high enough to meet "the basic needs for blood transfusions," reports the Associated Press. The World Health Organization (WHO) released new global data on blood donation for World Blood Donor Day on June 14. "[H]alf of the global blood donations are collected in developed nations, home to only 16 percent of the world's population," according to AP (6/11).
News outlets report on efforts to expand accountable care organizations, medical homes and community health clinics.
In his weekly address, the president accused Republicans of dragging their feet on fixing a Medicare physicians' pay cut of 21 percent.
The New York Times reports on a new approach to getting patients to take their medications consistently: financial incentives.
NPR continues its examination of medical marijuana.
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