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‘We’ve Become Witch Doctors’: Prestigious Hospitals Embracing Alternative Medicine
Stat examines top hospitals and medical schools to see just how deeply rooted the new acceptance for alternative therapies is. In other public health news: social media and isolation; the disappointment of potential medical breakthroughs; elusive diagnoses; eating disorders in young children; asthma and more.
Salaries For Top Officials At Tax-Exempt Groups, Including Hospitals, Moving Up, Paper Reports
The Wall Street Journal’s review of pay for top charity officials shows many moving above $1 million. But the paper says that executive compensation at nonprofit hospitals varies widely.
New Alliance Hopes To Lower Health Spending Costs By Combining Negotiating Heft
The group, which includes Johnson & Johnson, believes it will save a combined $600 million over three years compared with their members’ current drug-benefit contracts.
Trump To Planned Parenthood: Do Away With Abortions And Keep Your Funding
The move highlights the White House’s concern over the political ramifications of stripping federal funding from the organization. Planned Parenthood says the compromise is a nonstarter.
As Health Law Repeal Bill Comes Into Focus, States Ponder Impact On Medicaid
The proposal calls for dramatic changes to the health program for low-income residents that could move many people off the rolls and sets some timelines that states seeking to expand coverage will have to meet.
Leadership Banking On Trump’s Willingness To Arm-Twist Reluctant Lawmakers
The success of the Republicans’ health care plan may depend on lawmakers’ fear of re-election retribution from the president.
Republicans Walk Political Tightrope With Proposed Health Plan
The legislation would roll back provisions that have been objected to by the Republicans’ base, but it will also cover fewer people.
GOP Plan Will ‘Rip Healthcare Away From Millions Of Americans,’ Democrats Say
Democrats moved quickly to criticize the Republicans’ health care plan, saying it benefits the rich as well as insurance companies while hurting the middle-class.
Conservatives Criticize Repeal Plan As ‘Obamacare By A Different Form’
“Writing checks to individuals to purchase insurance is, in principle, Obamacare,” says a memo prepared by the Republican Study Committee. The immediate criticism foreshadows the difficulty Republican leadership will face in trying to pass its proposed legislation.
Richest Americans Would See Tax Cuts Under Republican’s Health Care Plan
Their proposal kills a 3.8 percent investment tax as well as a 0.9 percent surcharge on wages above $250,000.
GOP Plan Scraps Mandate, Rolls Back Medicaid And Replaces Subsidies With Tax Credits
House Republicans release their long-awaited plan, named the American Health Care Act, which protects some of the Affordable Care Act’s more popular provisions.
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A selection of opinions from around the country.
Policy Talk About How The GOP Might Replace Obamacare
Opinion writers offer their analysis about how the GOP repeal-replace-repair effort is shaping up and detail some of the key policy proposals in play.
Perspectives On The Heated Health Law Politics And What’s At Stake For People
From editorial pages come thoughts on the continuing political debate surrounding health care and concerns about how some people might be affected by proposed changes to the health law.
Outlets report on news from Tennessee, Georgia, Michigan, Florida, Texas, Ohio and Arizona.
Federal Judge Rules For N.H. Hospitals In Dispute Over Medicaid Funding
The New Hampshire Hospital Association says its members are due $224 million this year from a Medicaid program that helps cover the cost of uninsured patients. But the state, which funnels the federal funding to the hospitals, has budgeted only $191 million. Also, Pennsylvania has delayed the start of new Medicaid managed care contracts.
Mentally Disabled Patients Have Few Protections When It Comes To Transplants
Transplant teams have nearly full autonomy to make life-or-death decisions about who will receive scarce donor organs and who will be denied. In other public health news: deadly pollution, a mysterious illness, superbugs, Lyme disease, weight loss and social media.
Kennedy-Gingrich Anti-Opioid Group Funded By Maker Of Opioid Addiction Medication
Braeburn Pharmaceuticals, which won approval last year to market an implant that continuously dispenses the opioid addiction medicine buprenorphine, entered into an agreement to make a $900,000 charitable donation to Advocates for Opioid Recovery. Media outlets report on the crisis out of California, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Missouri, New Hampshire and Massachusetts as well.
Republican Governor Vows To Plug Any Gaps If Planned Parenthood Is Defunded
“[Massachusetts] Governor Baker is a strong supporter of women’s health and believes the commonwealth has a responsibility to ensure access to the important health care services offered by Planned Parenthood in all corners of our state,” the governor’s spokeswoman said.
