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News outlets report on the criticism and defense of Donald Berwick, President Obama's nominee to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, three of the major players in health reform.
"Group health insurance rates for small and midsize employers are surging for 2011 renewals, according to a survey by the Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers," Business Insurance reports.
This week's research roundup includes studies and briefs from Health Affairs, the Journal of the American Medical Association, Journal of the American College of Radiology, the Commonwealth Fund and Mathematica Policy Research.
President will meet with seniors in Wheaton, Md., Tuesday to answer questions about health reform provisions and to announce the first $250 checks have been sent to seniors who have reached the "doughnut hole," or gap in Medicare prescription drug coverage.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including HHS Secretary Sebelius' defense of the Obama administration's Medicare nominee as well as the AMA's push to fix scheduled reductions in Medicare physician payments.
Though Californians appear to be more supportive than the nation as a whole of the new health care law, many still say it is only a first step.
United Health's CEO Stephen Hemsley said he expects companies to keep offering benefits instead of pushing people to health exchanges created by the federal government, Bloomberg Businessweek reports.
After the House of Representatives dropped this funding provision from its jobs bill, state leaders are bracing for increased budget shortfalls.
CNN Money reports that the American Medical Association is launching an ad campaign to push lawmakers to stop a scheduled 21 percent cut to Medicare doctors' pay.
Subsidy to help laid-off workers buy health insurance started expiring on June 1 and efforts before Memorial Day to add an extension were not successful in the House.
A selection of today's opinions and editorials.
At a donor summit in the Dominican Republic on Wednesday, Haitian President Rene Preval called on donors to follow through on their aid pledges, Al Jazeera reports. So far, "only Brazil has delivered" on its commitment of $55 million (6/3). "Two months after more than 140 nations pledged $5.3 billion toward Haiti's reconstruction over the next two years and $9.9 billion over the next decade, little of the money has arrived," according to the Miami Herald (Charles, 6/3).
Drug makers want 60 days instead of 15 to pay a half-off discount for branded drugs in a Medicare Part D coverage gap, Inside Health Policy reports.
States examine possible effects of health care overhaul.
Reflecting on USAID's plans to reduce reliance on food aid to fight global hunger by investing in agricultural development through microloans, the Financial Times examines the needs of smallholder farmers throughout the world. The piece looks at the role that lenders and large suppliers can play in assisting smallholder farmers and ways to maximize the relationships between farmers and these groups.
USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah and Rep. Gerald Connolly (D-Va.) discussed the need for a new foreign aid strategy and vision at an international development forum, hosted by InterAction on Wednesday, Congressional Quarterly reports.
The HHS Secretary also spoke with federal and local leaders as well as technology experts about her agency's extensive health data resources that could improve health care accountability efforts.
Political and practical effects of the new health law are in the news.
One of the latest hurdles government advisers helping to shape health information technology policy must jump is addressing the amount of control patients should have over their own records.
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