Today’s Opinions And Editorials: Health Care Cost Estimates, Health Workforce Issues, And The Individual Mandate
Kaiser Health News presents a selection of Thursday's opinions and editorials from around America.
Archives: Morning Breakouts
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Partisan Disagreement Mounts As Health Programs Are Considered By Debt Commission
The attention on the federal deficit has focused on Obama's remarks that everything, even the new health care law, would be under consideration as his commission examines ways to cut the national debt.
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FDA Critics Say Controversy About Diabetes Drug Points To Need For Agency Changes
FDA examines the safety of Glaxo's Avandia pill.
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Seniors Often Don’t Choose Best Quality Medicare Advantage Plans, Study Finds
"How the plans score on a quality rating system set up by the government is about to have a direct impact on insurers' finances" under the new health law, The Associated Press reports.
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States Crack Down On Discount Health Plans
State round-up: Florida weighs giving nurse practitioners more authority; state chapters of NAMI receive donations from pharmaceutical firms; R.I. bishop pulls Catholic hospitals out of association that supported health bill.
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Experts See ‘Lump Sums’ In Health Spending’s Future
Some elite California hospitals will begin "bundling" their fees for joint replacement surgeries into a single lump sum in an attempt to rethink the current pricing system that leaves "hospitals and doctors charging separately for their services," driving "up costs while leaving no one to coordinate decisions about patient care."
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Republicans Call For Investigation Of Health Law’s Costs
A recent Medicare actuary report showed a one percent increase in health spending over 10 years, which Republicans said cut against Democrats' pledge that the health overhaul would "bend the cost curve down."
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DOJ Investigating Partners HealthCare For Alleged Anticompetitive Practices
The largest hospital and physician network in the Northeast is being investigated by the U.S. Department of Justice for alleged anticompetitive behavior after some have questioned how the firm negotiates contracts with health insurers, The Boston Globe reports.
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Health Reform Politics Still Swirling; SEIU Close To Choosing New Leader
CongressDaily reports that Republicans are busy tying their health reform repeal hopes to big gains in the midterm and 2012 elections.
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States Move To Require Ultrasounds Before Abortions
Several states have passed or are considering bills to tighten abortion regulations.
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Study Examines Doctors’ Uncompensated Daily Work
A study in the New England Journal of Medicine details primary care doctors' chores, such as answering phone calls and e-mails, refilling prescriptions, reviewing lab work, that are seldom paid for. The situation could get worse with large numbers of uninsured patients looking for physicans under the new health law.
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The Closing Of St. Vincent’s Hospital Creates Many Uncertainties In N.Y.
The Wall Street Journal reports on the closing of St. Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan and the prospects for workers to get new jobs.
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First Edition: April 29, 2010
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including stories about aspects of the new reform law such as high risk pools.
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WellPoint Profits Rise 51 Percent Amid Scrutiny On Several Fronts
WellPoint, the U.S. health insurer with the biggest membership, announced Wednesday that its first-quarter earnings rose 51 percent compared to last year and were boosted by a mild flu season.
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Canadian Leaders Focus On Hunger, Disease Prevention At G8 Meeting
G8 countries should make use of low-cost, effective tools to prevent hunger, disease and premature deaths among women and children in developing countries, Bev Oda, Canada's international cooperation minister, said on Tuesday. Leaders defended Canada's pledge not to fund abortions in the developing world.
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Report: Conditions In Zambian Prisons Fueling Spread Of HIV, TB
"Conditions in Zambia's prisons are so overcrowded and medical care so inadequate that they are breeding grounds for disease and pose a serious threat to public health, says a new report by Human Rights Watch, produced in association with the AIDS and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa and the Prisons Care and Counselling Association," BMJ News reports. "Researchers report that similar conditions prevail in much of Africa, where prisons risk becoming reservoirs of HIV and drug resistant tuberculosis"(Moszynski, 4/27).
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Sierra Leone Launching Free Health Care Program For Mothers, Children; Challenges Remain
Sierra Leone is launching a program to provide free health care for mothers and children in an effort to reduce high maternal and child mortality rates, Ernest Bai Koroma, the country's president, said on Tuesday, the Associated Press reports (4/27).
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Former U.S. Secretaries Of State Urge Congress Not To Cut International Affairs Budget
"As the Senate Foreign Relations Committee begins mark up today of the first foreign affairs authorization bill in five years, all eight living former U.S. Secretaries of State have written a letter [.pdf] urging Congress not to cut the international affairs budget," Politico's Laura Rozen writes on her blog.
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China Lifts Decades-Old HIV/AIDS Travel Ban
Late Tuesday, China's State Council lifted a decades-old restriction that banned foreigners with HIV/AIDS from entering the country, Reuters reports. The amended rules, which appear on the government website, also lift a travel ban on foreigners with other sexually transmitted diseases and leprosy.
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