First Edition: March 19, 2012
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports about the anticipation and anxiety that surrounds the Supreme Court's upcoming health law oral arguments.
Archives: Morning Breakouts
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GOP Plans For Medicare, Health Reform Repeal Draw Scrutiny
Political observers are noting challenges for Republican lawmakers in upcoming budget, health law and Medicare debates. And some Democrats in the Senate are being pressured on the issue of keeping one of the health law's safeguards for slowing Medicare's costs.
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Sides Counting Down To Supreme Court Health Reform Arguments
With the historic arguments over the 2010 reform law less than 10 days away, the Supreme Court rejected video and live audio of the proceedings. The court will release audio every day.
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HHS Proposes Options For Contraception Coverage Rule
The Obama administration reiterated the no-copay-for-contraceptives rule but suggested ways religious-affiliated institutions could comply.
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Administration Tailors Health Law Arguments To Key Justices
Part of their challenge is to convince the justices the health care marketplace is "unique." Meanwhile, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius talked to Democratic lawmakers on Capitol Hill about "alternatives" to the individual mandate if it were struck down. And The Wall Street Journal reports the oral arguments before the Supreme Court may be the hottest show in Washington.
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CBO: Employer-Based Health Insurance Could Decline Under Health Law
The Congressional Budget Office report notes -- under a worst case scenario -- that as many as 20 million people could lose their work-based coverage in 2019. The law's opponents embraced this figure, but the CBO says the more likely number is 3 to 5 million.
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States Consider Wide-Ranging Abortion, Contraception Legislation
A host of abortion and contraception legislation is winding its way through state legislatures: Democrats are focusing on regulating male reproductive health in at least six states; Michigan abortion providers face greater scrutiny; and Arizona could require those seeking birth control give a medical reason they need it.
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House Republicans Slow Fight Against Birth Control Coverage Rule
And, on the Senate side, a group of Republicans introduced a bill that would end traditional Medicare and allow seniors to join the insurance plans that are available to members of Congress.
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Feds Begin Funding Cuts To Texas Women’s Health Program
Federal officials said they would begin to phase out their 90-percent portion of the Texas Women's Health Program as they had promised to do after Texas lawmakers banned Planned Parenthood from the program. CMS officials said the reductions would be gradual.
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MedPac Urges Repeal Of SGR, Specific Payment Cuts
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission took on these and other issues in its March report to Congress.
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Tom Hanks, The Hollywood Touch Draw Attention To Obama Campaign Video
The 17-minute documentary looks at the administration's record and helps set the tone for the re-election campaign.
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Medicaid Commission Report Urges Steps To Improve Quality Of Care, Reduce Costs
According to news outlets, the report focused on the care of patients with disabilities, and steps to make sure anti-fraud efforts don't add to states' burdens.
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Status Checks: Health Law Implementation
As the Supreme Court prepares to consider challenges to the law's constitutionality, news outlets report on its impact so far and what's next to be implemented.
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Viewpoints: Health Care System Doesn’t Live Up To Its Billing For Many Americans; Romney Woos Seniors with ‘Clever Medicare Gambit’
A selection of editorials and opinions on health care policy from around the country.
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State Highlights: Minn. Tort Reform; Calif. Prepares – Or Not – For Newly Insured
A roundup of health policy news from Minnesota, California, Kansas, Connecticut, Oregon, Missouri, Washington D.C. and Colorado.
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Hospital News: Minn. Bill Would Require Hospitals To Disclose ‘Futility Policies’
Measure being considered in Minnesota would require hospitals to disclose if they withhold treatment to avoid wasting medical resources. In Florida, public hospitals are looking at mass layoffs to save money.
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Research Roundup: Medicaid Vs. Private Pay ER Use; Caregiver Stress
This week, we include studies from the Institute of Medicine, the American Journal of Public Health, the Urban Institute, the National Alliance for Caregiving and the Annals of Emergency Medicine.
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Cuts To Health Budget Lead To Increases In HIV/AIDS, Malaria, TB Incidence In Greece
"The savage cuts to Greece's health service budget have led to a sharp rise in HIV/AIDS and malaria in the beleaguered nation, said a leading aid organization on Thursday," the Guardian's "News Blog" reports. "The incidence of HIV/AIDS among intravenous drug users in central Athens soared by 1,250 percent in the first 10 months of 2011 compared with the same period the previous year, according to" Reveka Papadopoulos, "the head of Medecins Sans Frontieres [MSF] Greece, while malaria is becoming endemic in the south for the first time since ... the 1970s," the blog notes.
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WHO Releases Global Report On Mortality Attributable To Tobacco
A global report (.pdf) published by the WHO, titled "Mortality Attributable to Tobacco," "provides information by country on the proportion of adult (age 30 years and above) deaths attributable to tobacco by major communicable and non-communicable causes by age and sex," the agency's website states (March 2012). According to the U.N. News Centre, the report "shows that five percent of all deaths from communicable diseases worldwide and 14 percent of deaths resulting from non-communicable illnesses among adults aged 30 and above were attributable to tobacco use" (3/15).
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People Of Faith Can Work Together To Make Water Safe Worldwide
"We don't honor God when 4,500 children die every day -- but they do -- from the lack of something so simple, each of us takes it for granted: a safe glass of water," Rabbi Jack Bemporad, executive director of the Center for Interreligious Understanding, and journalist Susan Barnett write in Huffington Post's "Religion" blog. "Current U.S. funding for water and sanitation development amounts to less than one one-hundredth of a percent of the federal budget," they write, adding, "Yet for every dollar invested, there's an economic return of $8." They continue, "With all the good work the faiths do, from malnutrition to malaria, it's all being undercut by the overarching absence of clean water and sanitation. Not prioritizing the global water crisis defies logic. It prevents productivity, increases poverty and inequality for women."
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