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CQ’s Carey Addresses Medicare Part B Premium Increase, Not-For-Profit Hospitals’ Charity Care, Physician Pressure To Address Scheduled Medicare Payment Cuts

June 11, 2009 Morning Briefing

Bush Signs Bill Providing $51.8B in Hurricane Relief, Says Government Working To Ease Rules on Public Health Insurance, Other Benefits

June 11, 2009 Morning Briefing

Senate Approves $2.2T FY 2004 Budget Plan Including $400B Over 10 Years for Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit

June 11, 2009 Morning Briefing

$7.7B For H1N1 Included In House War-Spending Bill; India Says Developed Countries Can Do More To Prevent Spread

June 17, 2009 Morning Briefing

The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday narrowly passed a $106 billion war-funding bill, which “included 7.7 billion to help the nation prepare for an outbreak of the H1N1 virus, the so-called swine flu,” the Washington Times reports.

UnitedHealth Group Offers 15 Recommendations To Reduce Federal Health Spending by $540B Over 10 Years

May 28, 2009 Morning Briefing

Whistle-Blower Lawsuits Helped Recover At Least $9.3B From Health Care Providers Accused of Defrauding States, Federal Government, Analysis Finds

June 11, 2009 Morning Briefing

Depression, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Among Service Members Will Cost U.S. up to $6.2B Over Two Years, According to Report

June 11, 2009 Morning Briefing

President Bush’s $3T FY 2009 Budget Would Freeze Domestic Spending, Seek Nearly $200B in Savings From Federal Health Programs

June 11, 2009 Morning Briefing

Federation of American Hospitals Proposes Nationwide Health Insurance Mandate That Would Add $115.2B Annually to Current Federal, State Health Care Spending

June 11, 2009 Morning Briefing

Congress Considers Add-Ons to Medicare Physician Payment Legislation Totaling $20B, as Lawmakers Continue To Work Toward an Agreement on Cuts in Lame-Duck Session

June 11, 2009 Morning Briefing

Editorial, Letter to Editor Respond to Obama’s Proposed $63B Global Health Initiative

May 11, 2009 Morning Briefing

Obama’s $63B Global Health Initiative ‘Will Sustain’ PEPFAR, Editorial Says

May 7, 2009 Morning Briefing

Obama Proposes $63B Global Health Initiative Over 6 Years

May 6, 2009 Morning Briefing

President Obama proposed a $63 billion six-year global health initiative as part of his 2010 fiscal year budget, Reuters reports.

Obama Proposes $63B Global Health Initiative Over Six Years

May 6, 2009 Morning Briefing

Rotary Aims to Immunize 2B Children Against Polio; WHO Director-General Says Eradication A Priority

May 19, 2009 Morning Briefing

Rotary International’s Polio Plus program aims to immunize more than two billion children in 122 countries, according to a statement released by the organization on Monday, Xinhua reports.

House To Vote on Revised SCHIP Bill; HHS Secretary Leavitt Says Bush Administration Would Accept Measure That Increases SCHIP Funding by $20B Over Five Years

June 11, 2009 Morning Briefing

CBO Report Outlines Possible Savings in Medicare, Including Estimated $64.8B From 2008 to 2012 by Equalizing Payments to Managed Care Plans, Fee-for-Service Providers

June 11, 2009 Morning Briefing

USA Today Examines $124B 3-Year Chinese Health Care System Overhaul

May 8, 2009 Morning Briefing

USA Today examines the Chinese government’s new $124 billion three-year health care system overhaul. The government asserts that the new package will provide “safe, effective, convenient and affordable health services” to all of China’s 1.3 billion people by 2020.

Obama Rolls Out Full FY2010 Budget With $8.6B for Global Health Programs

May 11, 2009 Morning Briefing

President Obama recently rolled out his full 2010 fiscal year budget, which asks for a total of $8.6 billion for global health programs, including $7.4 billion for PEPFAR, tuberculosis and malaria funding, CQ Politics reports.

$10.4B Increase in NIH Funding Could Increase HIV/AIDS Research, Bloomberg Reports

May 7, 2009 Morning Briefing