States Face Health Care Budget Cuts, Seek Health-Related Legislation
Members of the public were invited to comment on Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal's proposed budget cuts, including health cuts, on Tuesday.
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Members of the public were invited to comment on Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal's proposed budget cuts, including health cuts, on Tuesday.
The Boston Globe reports on President Barack Obama's likely pick for head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Insurers, in an effort to avoid a showdown with the White House over the issue of coverage for sick children, agree to a ban on "pre-existing condition exclusions" for children younge than 19 that will take effect in September.
Small businesses are preparing for changes called for under the new health reform law.
A selection of opinions and editorials from around the country.
"Obama's pursuit of health care reflected his desire to succeed where no other president had, as much as his determination to seize the chance to fix a broken system, according to [former Sen. Tom] Daschle," Bloomberg reports. He risked his presidency and the careers of fellow Democrats in th gamble.
Some states are rejecting calls from Republicans and others around their states to join a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a health reform law, others are signing on.
Reports double-check the claims of proponents and critics of the health overhaul.
Physicians are concerned that changes in the health overhaul may increase their patient loads and administrative burdens.
There's no need to fear that patients' health information will end up in the hands of CIA officers, FBI agents or other federal agencies that deal in security and law enforcement, David Blumenthal, the national coordinator for health information technology, said last week.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including efforts by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to shape health reform's regulatory language. Meanwhile, analysis of particular policies included in the sweeping measure continue.
President Barack Obama signed the reconciliation bill into law Tuesday, finalizing the Democrats health overhaul.
A USA Today/Gallup Poll has found that almost two out of three of Americans say the health care reform law is too costly and expands the government's reach into health care too far, USA Today reports.
Uncertainty over whether the health overhaul would deliver promised insurance protections to children came to a quick end Monday when insurers told the administration they would not seek to block regulations clarifying the matter.
At a donors conference beginning on Wednesday at the U.N. in New York, Haitian President Rene Preval will lay out a $3.8 billion plan "to begin radically reshaping his country's post-earthquake economy and infrastructure," the Washington Post reports. The plan "marks the first phase of a highly ambitious reconstruction effort that" the Haitian government estimates will cost more than $11 billion over ten years.
The number of states challenging health law in court is growing, but some states, such as Arkansas that have tried unsuccessfully to face down the federal government, are not eager to move into the dispute.
Some states look forward to health care under the new law, others are dealing with separate health care issues.
Although H1N1 (swine flu) "has waned across much of the United States, the southeast is reporting an increase in cases of the H1N1 virus, U.S. health officials said on Monday," Reuters reports. During a conference call with reporters, Anne Schuchat of the CDC reported an uptick in the number of H1N1 cases reported in Alabama, South Carolina and Georgia (Allen, 3/29).
The health overhaul seeks to insure millions of Americans who do not currently have coverage with new subsidies, in essence, delivering millions of new customers to insurers.
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