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Week In Review: State Budgets Get Reprieve From Feds; Health Reform Politics On The Homefront

By Stephanie Stapleton August 13, 2010 KFF Health News Original

Party politics were obvious this week as House Democrats approved $16 billion in additional federal Medicaid funds for states.

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Researchers Find Evidence That A. Gambiae Mosquito Is Evolving Into Two Strains, Could Present Challenges For Malaria Control Efforts

October 22, 2010 Morning Briefing

The Anopheles gambiae mosquito, “one of the major carriers of the malaria parasite in Sub-Saharan Africa, is evolving in two directions,” according to two studies published Thursday in the journal Science, Scientific American’s “Observations” blog reports. “Some 247 million people were infected with malaria as of 2008, according to the World Health Organization, and it is implicated in about one million deaths each year,” the blog adds (Harmon, 10/21).

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Doctors Fear Reform Angst Is Tainting Medicare Payment ‘Fix’

By Christopher Weaver November 17, 2009 KFF Health News Original

Physicians’ lobby says fixing the 12-year-old formula that sets Medicare payments would prove lawmakers’ commitment to reform health care.

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Transcript: President Obama’s Remarks On Health Reform

August 8, 2009 KFF Health News Original

President Barack Obama devoted his weekly radio and internet address to the subject of health reform.

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Some Senate Democrats Help Republicans Defeat $247 Billion Medicare Payment ‘Doctor Fix’

October 22, 2009 Morning Briefing

The Senate defeated a bill Wednesday that raised reimbursement rates for Medicare doctors permanently by $247 billion over a decade in what some are calling the first test – and defeat – for health care reform.

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“Partnership” Policies for Long-Term Care Hold Promise–and Pitfalls

By Michelle Andrews July 10, 2009 KFF Health News Original

To encourage people to buy long-term care insurance, more states are starting programs that allow people to keep some assets if they exhaust insurance benefits and need to go on Medicaid. Without such an arrangement, they would have to “spend down” assets to qualify for Medicaid. But, experts warn, the policies need strong inflation protections.

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