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U.S. senators Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) departed Friday "for a trip to Africa," the Associated Press/Chicago Tribune reports. The Senators "planned to visit Tanzania, Congo, Ethiopia and Sudan. They were expected to return to the United States on Feb. 19" (2/13).
During a video address to the 7th U.S.-Islamic World Forum meeting in Doha, Qatar, on Saturday, President Barack Obama appointed Rashad Hussain, deputy associate White House counsel, to serve as Special Envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), the Associated Press reports.
The IRS is helping more than 40,000 residents of Michigan buy health insurance "after they lost their jobs to foreign competition or had their pension plans terminated," The Detroit News reports.
The Los Angeles Times offers advice to consumers on how to understand and correct medical bills.
The Obama administration announced $1 billion in new funding for health information technology Friday.
News outlets report on health care fraud and legal issues, including missing disciplinary records in a federal database of dangerous caregivers and a new federal bill that would target fake Medicare claims for prescriptions and equipment.
The Associated Press examines efforts to prevent the spread of HIV by circumcising "about 50 million men across Africa
States struggle with strapped budgets and Medicaid cuts.
Proponents of state-based health reform are saying that the federal stall over a health overhaul is giving states a perfect opportunity to showcase what they can do to solve the health care cost and coverage crisis, The Washington Post reports.
States tackle several health care policy issues including the creation of a health-insurance coop in Ohio and cuts in mental health funding in Virginia.
The Annals of Internal Medicine finds "that a divide has emerged between doctors and patients - with the doctors more inclined to accept the new recommendations and the patients wanting to stick to early and annual screening," the New York Times reports.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including how health savings could be used to reduce the deficit and how tort reform is fitting into the current health reform negotiations.
In an interview with the Financial Times, former chief of state to Bill Clinton says voters are discouraged by seeing "no spirit in which people were having a reasonable conversation" about health care and by the Senate deals to secure votes.
Vice president says the White House "is ready and willing to listen" to Republican health care ideas, but in Sens. Graham and Kyl are not hopeful for spirit of bipartisanship.
The New York Times looks at one issue that may provide "common ground in the health care debate." The Washington Post explores debate over state vs. national health reform.
The White House issued formal invitations to the president's health care summit Feb. 25, and included major Congressional players on health care from both parties.
Former congressman and powerful drug lobbyist Billy Tauzin is resigning as head of the pharmaceutical industry trade group after a deal he helped broker with the White House on health reform strained relationships inside the group.
WellPoint Inc., the parent company of Anthem Blue Cross of California, is defending its rate hike for customers with individual health insurance, but critics, including the Obama administration, are dubious.
An extension of the COBRA subsidy program is no longer part of the Senate jobs bill.
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