Moving Forward: The Medicare Debate In 2012
The AP reports on some of the surprising similarities that can be found behind the partisan rhetoric surrounding Medicare.
Archives: Morning Breakouts
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Study: In-Hospital Mortality Rates Questioned As Measure Of Quality
Research in Monday's Annals Of Internal Medicine indicates that it may make more sense to review mortality over a set window of time, rather than the number of people who die while in the hospital.
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Supreme Court Justices’ Recusal Questions Continue To Grab Headlines
While the Wall Street Journal takes a look at how the individual mandate could be viewed by specific justices, news services report on the chief justice's view of the health care recusal issue.
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CMS Delays Two Anti-Fraud Projects
Modern Healthcare reports that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has put on hold its initiative targeting fraud related to power wheelchairs and its expansion of the Recovery Audit Contractors. Georgia Health News reports on how health care fraud has taken root in Georgia.
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GOP Plan To Reclaim White House Will Turn Obama’s Words Against Him
The Washington Post reports on the Republican battle plan, which will undoubtedly include his past claims about lowering the cost of insurance premiums. The Associated Press reports on how the GOP primary race has yet to "fully test" candidate Mitt Romney's health care record. Also, The Hill reports that the Republican presidential field appears to be "moving to the right" on abortion issues.
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McConnell Names Conferees For Tax-Cut, Doc Fix Negotiations
Late last month, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., named his picks to negotiate for a year-long extension of the payroll tax holiday and Medicare doc fix.
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IRIN, GlobalPost Examine Malnutrition In Yemen
IRIN reports that "[a]id workers hope 'shocking' new malnutrition figures from a survey conducted in western Yemen will help highlight the serious humanitarian situation in the country and prompt donors to act immediately." The survey, conducted by Yemen's Ministry of Public Health and Population and supported by UNICEF, "found a global acute malnutrition (GAM) rate of 31.7 percent -- meaning nearly one third of children surveyed suffered from either moderate or severe acute malnutrition -- of which nearly 10 percent were severe cases. These figures are more than double the internationally recognized emergency threshold of 15 percent," IRIN writes (12/27).
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U.S. Offers Initial $125 Million To UNHCR In 2012
"The United States said Thursday it will contribute an initial $125 million to the [U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees' (UNHCR)] 2012 operations, including support for refugees returning to Afghanistan and the Democratic Republic of Congo," Agence France-Presse reports, noting, "The State Department said the funds
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First Edition: January 3, 2012
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports that New York seniors are experiencing reduced prescription coverage and more California patients are being added to the health insurance rolls.
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Health Care 2012: Medicare Faces Big Changes, New State Laws Include Abortion Issues
News outlets began 2012 by looking ahead at what is promising to be a busy health care year, especially because of the law.
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Geisinger System: We Won’t Hire Smokers
The Pennsylvania health care system announced it won't be hiring smokers, though the policy won't apply to current employees.
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Roberts Defends Colleagues And Court’s Recusal Policy
In year-end message, Supreme Court chief justice addresses growing controversy about whether Justices Thomas and Kagan should participate in the health law case.
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HHS Awards CHIP ‘Performance Bonuses’ To 23 States
The extra payments will go to states which have streamlined the enrollment for their Children's Health Insurance Programs.
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GOP Struggles To Find Replacement Plan For Health Law
Republicans have pledged to "repeal and replace" the 2010 overhaul, but they haven't formulated the replacement yet, The Washington Post reports. Meanwhile, others examine prospects of a long-term Medicare fix for doctors' payments.
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Romney Defends Mass. Mandate; Gingrich Once Supported That Plan
Romney says an insurance mandate is fundamentally a conservative principle, The Hill reports. Meanwhile, recent news accounts have found past statements by Gingrich praising Romney's health law efforts in Massachusetts.
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House, Senate Pass Two-Month Extension Bill
The long process of negotiation between House and Senate ends as both chambers pass a bill to prevent a cut in Medicare payments, a payroll tax increase and reduced unemployment benefits for two months. But in the new year, Congress must resume talks about a longer-term solution.
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N.Y. Times Review Finds Misuse Of Psychotropic Drugs In Disabled Patients
Article reveals that psychotropic medications, which alter the brain's chemistry, are often dispensed sloppily, without rigorous or regular review, by general practitioners with little expertise in the area.
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Roundup: HIV Staff To Be Cut In Ga.; Abortion News In N.J., Mo.; Wis. Medicaid Coverage In Limbo
News outlets report on state health policy developments in Georgia, California, Missouri, New Jersey, Colorado, Wisconsin, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Oregon.
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Medicare Spending Growth Slows, But 2011 A Profitable Year For Medicare Advantage Plans
Medicare spending growth is slowing, even as enrollment rises, The Washington Post reports. Meanwhile, several large Medicare Advantage plans turned a mighty profit in 2011, despite the volatility of the larger economy.
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Scientific Journal Retracts Study That Linked Mouse Virus To Human Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Editors at the journal Science have retracted a study that linked a virus in mice to chronic fatigue syndrome in humans after the Cleveland Clinic said some data came from a contaminated lab.
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