Balanced Budget Out of Reach, Many Experts Warn
By John Berry, The Fiscal Times
April 23, 2010
KFF Health News Original
President Obama’s fiscal commission faces a daunting task in reducing the deficit.
Text: The President’s Executive Order On Abortion Funding And The Health Bill
March 25, 2010
KFF Health News Original
The White House released the text of President Barack Obama’s executive order on abortion funding and the health bill.
More Than 2B Worldwide Lack Access To Adequate Surgical Services, Study Finds
July 2, 2010
Morning Briefing
“More than 2 billion people worldwide do not have adequate access to surgical services, and low-income countries in particular have low levels of surgical care,” according to a study published online Thursday in the Lancet, HealthDay News/Modern Medicine reports (7/1).
House Subcommittee Approves $52.7B FY11 Foreign Ops Appropriations Bill
July 1, 2010
Morning Briefing
The Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs approved a $52.7 billion FY 2011 spending bill on Wednesday, CongressDaily reports. The bill withheld $3.9 billion in aid for Afghanistan in response to concerns about corruption and “already cut $4 billion from President Obama’s request to fund the State Department, U.S. Agency for International Development and dozens of foreign assistance and cooperation programs,” the publication writes.
Transcript: Health On The Hill: After The Summit
February 25, 2010
KFF Health News Original
A health care summit between President Obama, Republicans and Democrats ended with the president laying out some areas of consensus between the two parties but many disagreements remain.
Analysis: Health Lobbyists’ Powerful Impact On Reform Bills
By Joe Eaton and M.B. Pell
February 24, 2010
KFF Health News Original
A Center for Public Integrity analysis shows that more than 1,750 a diverse list of companies and organizations hired about 4,525 lobbyists to influence health reform bills in 2009.
Graphic: Health Spending by Public and Private Sectors
February 3, 2010
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Related Article Government Health Spending To Top Private Sector By 2012 According to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services data, the balance in health spending has steadily shifted towards the public sector since 1960, when the government started keeping track. To view the interactive graphic, click on the link that says “Click To Interact.” (Please note: […]
Report Examines G8’s $22B Food Security Pledge, Highlights Need For Funding Delivery
June 18, 2010
Morning Briefing
A report from the anti-poverty group ActionAid finds that less than one-third of the $22 billion that was pledged to improve food security during a 2009 G8 meeting in L’Aquila, Italy, is from new funding sources, the U.K. Press Association reports (6/18).
U.N. Secretary-General To Ask G20 For Additional $60B Over 5 Years For Maternal, Child Health
June 24, 2010
Morning Briefing
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he plans to ask the G20 to follow through on aid promises and to commit an additional $60 billion over five years for lowering maternal and child mortality rates worldwide, Bloomberg Businessweek reports.
Canada Willing To Spend $1B On G8 Maternal, Child Health Initiative
June 1, 2010
Morning Briefing
Canada has told other G8 countries that it “is willing to put about $1 billion toward maternal and child health
Financial Times Examines How GAVI’s $2.6B Shortfall Might Affect New Vaccine Programs In Developing Countries
June 16, 2010
Morning Briefing
GAVI Alliance’s plan to introduce new vaccine projects in the developing world “is under threat amid the international economic downturn,” the Financial Times reports. “Subsidies to extend the use of vaccines against rubella, HPV to tackle cervical cancer, cholera and Japanese encephalitis in the developing world are among those likely to be cancelled or delayed, the head of the U.N.-backed” Alliance’s CEO Julian Lob-Levyt said, the newspaper writes.
Small Anti-Abortion Advocacy Group Flexes Muscle In Midterm Elections
May 14, 2010
Morning Briefing
The Washington Post reports on the increasingly important role of a small antiabortion advocacy group, the Susan B. Anthony List, which is targeting Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in his bid for re-election.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee To Mark Up $3.5B Haiti Reconstruction Bill
May 25, 2010
Morning Briefing
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee Tuesday is expected to mark up a bill that would “authorize $3.5 billion in reconstruction funds for Haiti over five years” and would also require USAID “to submit a long-term reconstruction plan to Congress as well as mandate the president to appoint a senior policy coordinator for Haiti,” The Hill reports (Bogardus, 5/23).
Graphic: HHS Discretionary Spending In President’s Proposed 2011 Budget
February 2, 2010
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By Christopher Weaver KFF Health News Staff WriterFEB 02, 2010 The lion’s share – by far – of the Department of Health and Human Services’ budget is consumed by Medicare and Medicaid, the towering entitlement programs that cover health care for the elderly/disabled and low-income, respectively. Together, and with additional smaller mandatory spending programs, they […]
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Passes 2-Year, $2B Measure To Aid Haiti Rebuilding
May 26, 2010
Morning Briefing
The Senate Foreign Affairs Committee passed a $2 billion aid package to assist with Haiti’s rebuilding from the January 12 earthquake, Agence France-Presse reports (5/25).
Transcript: Health On The Hill – What The Massachusetts Senate Race Could Mean For Health Reform
January 19, 2010
KFF Health News Original
The outcome of the Massachusetts Senate race could play a pivotal role in efforts by President Obama and congressional Democrats to pass a health care overhaul bill this year.
Give Nurses A Bigger Role In Improving Health Care
By Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
January 20, 2010
KFF Health News Original
Poll after poll finds that nurses are either the most trusted group of professionals, or one of the most trusted groups, in the country.
Transcript: Health On The Hill – What’s Ahead This Week
March 8, 2010
KFF Health News Original
President Obama will visit Philadelphia and St. Louis this week to continue his push to have Congress pass health overhaul legislation this month.
Mail-Order Drug Provider Identifies $163B In Potential Prescription Drug Savings
April 21, 2010
Morning Briefing
A study by Express Scripts, a mail-order prescription drug provider, said Tuesday that an “estimated $163 billion in health care spending could be saved each year if patients took their medicines as prescribed, chose generic drugs and other low-cost alternatives, and had their prescriptions delivered by mail,” the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.
