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An IRS official, testifying during a Senate Finance Committee hearing, said the agency has tools it can use to enforce the new health law's insurance requirement. Meanwhile, Kaiser Health News provides a touch of health policy humor with a "Tax Day" cartoon.
"Governments in developed countries continued to increase the amount of aid they gave to poorer countries in 2009, despite the financial crisis, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development [OECD] said," following the release of its annual review of aid, the Wall Street Journal reports (Hannon, 4/14).
"The Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved legislation [by voice vote] Tuesday launching a government effort to provide 100 million people in the world's poorest countries with first-time access to safe drinking water and modern sanitation," CongressDaily reports.
Democrats' extension of jobless benefits - including provisions to extend a subsidy to help the newly laid-off afford health insurance - passed a key procedural test yesterday. A final Senate vote on the bill could come today.
The House of Representatives approved a measure by voice vote Wednesday that "instructs U.S. directors at the International Monetary Fund and other global development institutions to use their votes and influence to cancel Haiti's debt," CongressDaily reports (4/15).
On a tight vote Wednesday, the Senate agreed to exempt the doctor payment fix from rules that all spending must be paid for.
China is responding to a major earthquake that injured thousands of people Wednesday in the country's Tibetan region, the Associated Press reports. The U.S. Geological Survey measured the initial earthquake at a magnitude of 6.9, the news service reports.
The first meeting of external experts tasked with reviewing the WHO's handling of the H1N1 (swine flu) virus came to a close Wednesday, with health leaders maintaining it was still too early to declare the pandemic over, Agence France-Presse reports.
Kaiser Health News presents a selection of opinions and editorials.
States address a range of policy issues at the state level.
The Wall Street Journal reports that Duke University researchers have found, in a study published Wednesday, that granting "exclusive licenses on individual genes" could hurt patients' chances of pinpointing their risks to develop disease.
Despite efforts to enhance those services, The Wall Street Journal says the concept has not proved "particularly profitable."
A roundup of stories about the health overhaul's policy implications.
A new Associated Press/GfK poll has found that Americans oppose the health care overhaul 50-39 percent, which changed from an evenly split populace when President Obama signed the bill.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Wednesday that the federal government will soon have a national plan to reduce health disparities between minorities and whites, The Associated Press reports.
Officials in Massachusetts have told insurers to propose new rate updates by tomorrow or face fines.
UnitedHealth Group Inc. is issuing a report Thursday on managed care strategies to help states deal with problems that can undermine health-care programs for the poor, The Wall Street Journal reports.
The Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) Act program, a provision of the health reform law, "establishes a voluntary, long-term care program that will provide cash to enrollees who suffer at least two limitations in daily activities, such as eating, bathing and dressing," Kaiser Health News reports.
A new report details the quality of health care in various states while Illinois' hospitals are ranked for quality measures online an in Massachusetts, a study details rates of hospital-acquired infections.
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