Archives: Morning Breakouts

News outlets explore some of the potential loopholes in the health bills.

Past decade presented challenges but new funding and leadership is reinvigorating the agency.

"National healthcare legislation in Congress could slow the growth of medical costs, allowing employers to create 250,000 to 400,000 new jobs a year over the next decade, economists from Harvard University and USC are predicting," the Los Angeles Times reports.

Business groups, religious leaders, health care administrators and progressives are voicing strong opinions as the congressional push toward health care reform moves forward.

In a speech on Wednesday, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said that it is time to "elevate development as a central pillar of all that we do in our foreign policy," United Press International reports (1/6). According to Reuters, "U.S. security depends on a new approach to international aid, so Washington must consult more and dictate less as it dispenses billions of dollars in assistance, ... Clinton said."

"Many of the Washington interest groups that are seeking to shape final health-care legislation in the coming weeks operate with opaque financing, often receiving hidden support from insurers, drugmakers or unions," The Washington Post reports.