Today’s Headlines – Feb. 29, 2012
Good morning! Half way through the week! Here are your morning headlines: Politico: Who’s Health Care’s Key SCOTUS Vote? Administration lawyers have peppered their briefs with citations to opinions written by Anthony Kennedy and Antonin Scalia, they’ve seized on the arguments made by one of Scalia’s most beloved former clerks and their allies in legal […]
Today’s Headlines – February 28, 2012
Good morning! Here are your early-morning headlines: The New York Times: At-Risk Patients Gain Attention Of Health Insurers One percent of patients account for more than 25 percent of health care spending among the privately insured, according to a new study. Their medical bills average nearly $100,000 a year for multiple hospital stays, doctors’ visits, […]
Today’s Headlines – February 27, 2012
Good morning! Get your week started with these headlines: The New York Times: A Measure Of Change: Obama’s Deficit Dilemma Yet starting with that April speech, Mr. Obama has come to adopt most of the major tenets supported by a majority of the commission’s members, though his proposals do not go as far. He has […]
Today’s Headlines – February 24, 2012
Happy Friday, world! Here are your headlines: Los Angeles Times: Debt Would Grow Under Most GOP Candidates’ Plans, Report Says The sober analysis shows how difficult it will be for any new inhabitant in the White House to shift the nation’s debt trajectory, and the need for long-term and bipartisan efforts to gain revenues and […]
Today’s Headlines – February 23, 2012
Good morning! Here are your headlines to get you going this A.M.: The New York Times: The Caucus Blog: Study Finds Mixed Results In GOP Candidates’ Plans For Federal Debt All four would repeal the 2010 health care law, which would not save much money since the law includes spending cuts and tax increases to […]
Today’s Headlines – February 22, 2012
Good morning! The Associated Press/Washington Post: Supreme Court Adds 30 Minutes to Next Month’s Health Care Arguments, Up To 6 Hours Overall The Supreme Court has added another 30 minutes to upcoming arguments over President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul. The sessions now will span six hours over three days in late March. The justices […]
Today’s Headlines – February 21, 2012
Good morning! Hope you enjoyed Presidents’ Day! Here are your morning headlines to get you back in the swing of things: USA Today: Court Action Could Prolong Health Care Fight Next month’s challenge to the Obama-sponsored health care law could affect the care available to most Americans, alter the balance of power between Washington and […]
Today’s Headlines – February 8, 2012
Good morning! Here are your morning headlines: The New York Times: Talks Stall On How To Pay For Extending Payroll Tax Cut Any hope for a fast and quiet resolution to the Congressional battle over a payroll tax cut seemed to dim Tuesday as members of a bipartisan negotiating committee clashed over how to pay […]
Today’s Headlines – February 7, 2012
Good morning! Here are your headlines to get your day started: The Wall Street Journal: Budget Plan Has Familiar Ring The president will propose cutting spending on Medicare, the federal health program for the elderly, and Medicaid, the joint federal-state program for the poor and disabled. However, he isn’t proposing the structural changes that experts […]
Today’s Headlines – February 6, 2012
Good morning! Hope you don’t have the post-Super Bowl blues. If you do, these headlines are sure to get you super-hyped for the day: The Wall Street Journal: Check Hospital Tab Some Medicare beneficiaries who visit the hospital are getting surprised by big bills because their stays weren’t considered inpatient services. The issue arises when […]
Today’s Headlines – February 3, 2012
Good morning, and happy Friday! Here are your health headlines: Los Angeles Times: Health Law Delivers $2.1 Billion In Savings On Drugs For Seniors In the first full year of the new healthcare law, 3.6 million people in the government Medicare program saved $2.1 billion on prescription drugs in 2011, the Obama administration announced Thursday […]
Today’s Headlines – February 2, 2012
Good Thursday morning to you! Here are your headlines to help you get your day started; up and at ’em: The Associated Press/Washington Post: Payroll Tax, Jobless Benefits Negotiations On Capitol Hill Off To Slow Start As Deadline Nears Negotiators on Capitol Hill agreed Wednesday to try to extend a payroll tax cut worth about […]
Today’s Headlines – February 1, 2012
Can you believe it’s February already? Here are your morning headlines: The New York Times: Budget Deficit Tops $1 Trillion, But Is Falling, Report Says Lawmakers of both parties say Congress must block impending cuts in Medicare payments to doctors, who face a 27 percent reduction in fees in March. Just to maintain Medicare payment […]
Today’s Headlines – January 31, 2012
Tuesday is here. We have your headlines to get you through the morning: Los Angeles Times: Democrats In Congress Step Up Tax-The-Rich Efforts But after a year in which a tea-party-driven Republican Party proposed steep cuts to Medicare and other mainstays of the federal government, polls show that voters have reacted in part by taking […]
Today’s Headlines – January 30, 2012
Good morning! Monday’s here, but don’t fret, here are your headlines: Los Angeles Times: GOP Leaders Pledge Quick Action On Payroll Tax Break House-Senate negotiators are expected to meet this week on extending the tax break, which amounts to about $20 a week for the average worker, as well as continuing unemployment benefits and preventing […]
Today’s Headlines – January 27, 2012
Happy Friday! Here are your morning headlines: Politico: Health Care Reform: House GOP Waits For Supreme Court House Republicans have tried to repeal various pieces of President Barack Obama’s health reform law, but they haven’t touched the least popular piece: the individual mandate. One reason for that: They don’t want to give the Supreme Court […]
Today’s Headlines – January 26, 2012
Good morning health policy world! Here are your morning headlines: The Associated Press/Washington Post: House GOP Leaders Want ‘Replace’ Bill Ready If Supreme Court Strikes Down Obama’s Health Law House Republican leaders are drafting a bill to replace President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul if the Supreme Court strikes it down this summer. Pennsylvania Rep. […]
Today’s Headlines – January 25, 2012
Good morning! Here are your post-SOTU headlines: NPR: Analysis: Landmark Health Overhaul Gets Barely A Mention When it came to health, what was most surprising was how little President Obama had to say in his State of the Union address. His landmark 2010 health overhaul — whose fate is currently before the Supreme Court and […]
Today’s Headlines – January 24, 2012
Good morning! Here are your headline highlights: The Associated Press/Washington Post: Supreme Court Won’t Hear Arguments Demanding Kagan’s Recusal From Health Care Case The Supreme Court won’t hear arguments from a conservative watchdog group that wants Justice Elena Kagan disqualified from deciding the constitutionality of President Barack Obama’s national health care overhaul (1/23). Politico: Survey: […]
Today’s Headlines – January 23, 2012
Welcome back! Here are your morning headlines: The Wall Street Journal: Can Accountable-Care Organizations Improve Health Care While Reducing Costs? It’s often said that the main method of paying health-care providers—with a fee for each service—results in increased and wasteful spending. Such a system, its critics say, rewards providers just for doing more procedures, rather […]
