Miss. Lawmakers Want Voters To Have Say On Health Coverage Mandate
Two Mississippi lawmakers want voters in their state to have the final say on whether purchasing health insurance should be mandatory.
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Mass. Court Orders State’s Two Largest Health Insurers To Submit Insurance Rates; N.C. Governor Restores Funding For Some Mental Health Programs
State roundup: Virginia and Louisiana consider abortion measures; Florida and Arizona lawmakers continue to wrestle with Medicaid funding shortfalls.
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Minorities, Seniors See Positives In Health Law; Worries Persist About Insurance Costs
NPR reports that black Americans are viewing the new health care law with hope that it will improve their care and lives, but there's "a debate about whether the coming changes will actually ease the health disparities that black Americans face."
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Possibility Of Mexican Health Care For Americans Discussed
Participants at a conference held in San Diego Wednesday discussed the possibility of sending US patients across the border to Mexico for health care.
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Study: California’s Nursing-Ratio Law Saves Patients’ Lives
News outlets report on a study suggesting that California's mandatory nursing-ratio law saves patients' lives.
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Sebelius Says HHS Will Not Seek More Money This Year To Implement Health Overhaul
"The Obama administration does not plan to seek additional money in next year's Health and Human Services Department budget to implement the new U.S. healthcare reform law, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said on Wednesday," Reuters reports.
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House Passes Measure To Boost Veterans Medical Benefits
A bill that passed the House of Representatives on Wednesday would increase benefits for veterans, including specific provisions for women veterans and veterans' caregivers.
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Medical Groups Adopt Stricter Ethics Code Against Conflicts Of Interest
A new ethics code adopted by leading medical groups on Wednesday is supposed to keep the drug and medical device industry from having too much financial influence over medical practitioners.
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Investigators Raid N.Y. Senate Official’s Office, Seeking Evidence In Medicare, Medicaid Fraud Lawsuit
Federal and state agents carry away several dozen boxes from Sen. Pedro Espada Jr.'s office in Bronx, seeking evidence in Medicare, Medicaid fraud lawsuit.
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First Edition: April 22, 2010
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including stories about the continuing politics behind the recent health reform vote.
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Senate Democrats Seek Legislation To Regulate Insurer Rate Hikes
Senators will pursue a measure legislation that would give federal officials the power to block insurers' rate hikes, a key Democratic committee chairman says.
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As More Reform Specifics Emerge, So Do Questions, Answers And Impacts
The new health care reform law could shift billions in Medicaid drug rebates from states to the federal government by changing how the rebates are treated, Kaiser Health News reports.
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Alaska Is 20th State To Join Health Reform Lawsuit; Okla. And La. Consider Signing On
Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell has said he will make Alaska the 20th state to join a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the new health reform law in order to overturn the changes to the health care system, The Anchorage Daily News/McClatchy report.
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Senate Subcommittee Hearing Looks At USAID Budget Request, Potential For Reform
At a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs hearing on Tuesday about USAID's FY 2011 budget, several senators called for "broad changes in the culture and operations of" USAID, CQ reports.
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World Bank Report Shows Some MDG Progress, Country-Level Advancement ‘Uneven’
The world is on track to meet the poverty reduction target of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), but sub-Saharan Africa still lags behind, according to the World Bank's World Development Indicators 2010 report, released Tuesday, VOA News reports (Hennessey, 4/20).
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AFP Reflects On WHO’s Response To H1N1
Agence France-Presse examines the WHO's response to H1N1 (swine flu) one year since the virus was first reported in Mexico and the U.S. "A year on, questions linger as to whether a decision by the World Health Organization to declare swine flu a pandemic, thereby unleashing the slew of health measures, was over-dramatic or even tainted by commercial interests," the news service writes.
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Mail-Order Drug Provider Identifies $163B In Potential Prescription Drug Savings
A study by Express Scripts, a mail-order prescription drug provider, said Tuesday that an "estimated $163 billion in health care spending could be saved each year if patients took their medicines as prescribed, chose generic drugs and other low-cost alternatives, and had their prescriptions delivered by mail," the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.
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Study Links Maternal Height To Children’s Health Outcomes
Malnutrition suffered during a woman's childhood "can adversely affect the health of her children, Harvard researchers said Tuesday," following the release of their study in developing countries, which "found that the shortest women were substantially more likely to have children who died at an early age, who were underweight or who failed to thrive, according to a report in the Journal of the American Medical [Association]" (JAMA), the Los Angeles Times' blog "Shots" reports.
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Miller-McCune: ‘Existing Beliefs’ Can Stand In The Way Of Medical Research
After a scientist found that runners' widespread habit of using ibuprofen before long races didn't help them, and may even cause more inflammation than doing nothing, a group of runners presented with the evidence still said they would continue using the drug.
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