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A Nebraska city hopes to lower health costs by requiring retirees to pay more; California officials say a hospital risked patient injuries; and Texas doctors are increasingly arriving from abroad.
Minnesota's Democratic-controlled legislature ended a budget standoff Monday that focused on Medicaid policy.
Kaiser Health News presents a selection of Tuesday's opinions and editorials from around the country.
The health law's impact on health insurance rules will affect consumers, insurers and sales agents.
A study released Monday found that intensive care patients who didn't have insurance were 21 percent more likely to die than those with insurance.
The Fiscal Times reports that a two-tiered medical system is emerging for the haves and have nots.
Four major Massachusetts health insurers are blaming Gov. Deval Patrick's rate increase caps for their first quarter losses that total more than $150 million.
Nobel-prize winner Harold Varmus, currently head of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, will begin as National Cancer Institute chief in July.
"The AARP says that manufacturer prices for brand-name prescription drugs commonly used by people on Medicare rose 9.7% for the year ending in March - the biggest annual jump since the group started tracking prices in 2002," The Wall Street Journal Health Blog reports.
Hospital marketing can be an effective way to attract doctors and new patients, but some critics say hospitals should spend the money on health care instead.
The federal government is investing tens of billions of dollars in health information technology, but the medical groups that stand to benefit from the money are less enthusiastic than their government benefactors, arguing that the push is too aggressive.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including a range of health policy developments -- from health reform implementation to the marketplace and the political arena.
Three of the large carriers blame the bulk of their deficit on the governor's decision to cap rate increases for individuals and small businesses, The Boston Globe reports.
Kaiser Health News presents a selection of Monday's opinions and editorials from around the nation.
SciDev.Net reports on two recent studies published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal which look at how frequently health care providers and researchers in developing countries access research-based evidence. The studies "[t]he researchers, who examined research and practice in four areas at the heart of the U.N. Millennium Development Goals [MDGs], surveyed 1,500 healthcare providers and just over 300 researchers in 10 [low- and middle-income countries]
Democrats are trying a reliable strategy, Politico reports: "front-loading their legislation with consumer-friendly, insurance industry reforms and other fixes they hope will generate support for the new law in the run-up to the pivotal midterm elections."
A 21 percent reduction in Medicare reimbursements that has loomed over physicians all year will go into effect on June 1, unless Congress acts to further delay the cuts.
As "HIV prevalence among gay and bisexual men has hit alarming levels in Asia," an estimated 90 percent of men who have sex with men (MSM) in the Asia Pacific region lack access to HIV prevention and care, according to a report released Monday by the U.N. Development Programme (UNDP), Asia Pacific Coalition on Male Sexual Health (APCPM) and the University of Hong Kong's Center for Comparative and Public Law (CCPL), Reuters reports.
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