PhRMA And Wall Street Analysts Weigh In On The Fate Of Health Reform
PhRMA and analysts on Wall Street ruminate on the fate of the health care bills pending in Congress.
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PhRMA and analysts on Wall Street ruminate on the fate of the health care bills pending in Congress.
Even as timing and strategies appear unclear, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that both the House and Senate continue to work on the health care reform bill.
Over the next decade, efforts to vaccinate "infants against rotavirus could save the lives of millions of children in developing nations who would otherwise die from the diarrhea-causing disease, two new studies show," HealthDay/BusinsessWeek reports. The studies track diarrhea deaths among children vaccinated against rotavirus in Africa and Mexico and appear in the Jan. 28 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine (Thomas, 1/27).
Haitian President Rene Preval said the country is in need of sturdy tents and jobs to prevent an ongoing crisis, the Miami Herald reports. At a press conference, Preval said, "Help the people with tents. Create employment so people can buy food in the country. That is what's most important."
Several health care organizations are urging President Obama and Congress to finish health reform.
News outlets report on state budget news in Kansas, Massachusetts and Idaho.
Kaiser Health News presents a sampling of Thursday's opinions and editorials from around America.
A new hospital is a key to plans to build a $1.2 billion academic medical center in the Mid-City neighborhood. Meanwhile, other states grapple with quality and coverage issues.
President Obama Wednesday appealed to Congress - albeit less prominently than before - to agree on and pass health care reform, but the bill remains in jeopardy.
WellPoint's fourth quarter profits are up eight-fold. Meanwhile, CEO Angela Braly says premiums would rise under the Democrat's plan to require insurers to cover all Americans.
Cost sharing and increased co-pays, even if it's just a few dollars, can lead seniors to put off visits to the doctor and result in increased hospital admissions and longer hospital stays, a study in the New England Journal of Medicine finds.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested that the House might pass the Senate health bill under a two-track approach.
A group of Republicans and Rep. Henry Waxman, the California Democrat who chairs the Energy and Commerce committee, are prodding the White House to release documents detailing agreements cut with industry groups in exchange for their support for health reform.
The Food and Drug Administration releases voluntary guidelines and warns drugmakers to "look beyound traditional indicators" to determine the potential abuse of new drugs.
USA Today reports that ratings by Medicare are based on inspections, complaint investigations and other data.
In his response to President Obama's State of the Union address, Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell said, "Americans wanted affordable health care, but they didn't want the government to run it."
American hospitals have lots of reasons to go digital, as well as a handful of motives to stick with paper.
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