Today’s Headlines – December 21, 2011
By Stephanie Stapleton
December 21, 2011
KFF Health News Original
Good morning! Los Angeles Times: With Payroll Tax Cut Unresolved, Congress Packs Up After weeks of bitter partisan wrangling, the Capitol emptied for the holidays with no sign of negotiation toward a compromise that would save an expiring tax break. As of Jan. 1, the payroll tax cut that has been in place all year […]
Health Care In Massachusetts: ‘Abject Failure’ Or Work In Progress?
By Richard Knox, NPR News
February 13, 2012
KFF Health News Original
GOP Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney’s health care reform in Massachusetts is denigrated by his fellow GOP contenders and some others, but the law isn’t nearly as controversial in his home state, where it remains to be seen just how the law will transform the health care system there.
The Health Law Goes Graphic
By Michelle Andrews
January 9, 2012
KFF Health News Original
Advocate of health overhaul uses a comic-book style narrative to describe the federal law and its provisions.
Today’s Headlines – January 6, 2012
By Stephanie Stapleton
January 6, 2012
KFF Health News Original
Happy Friday! Here are your headlines to start your morning! The New York Times: Romney Facing Risks Left And Right To Democrats, it is a straw-man formulation that twists the facts of Mr. Obama’s record and implies that the president is somehow less than American. The largest entitlement programs — Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid — […]
‘Oy Vey’: Jewish Republicans In South Florida See Little To Like In Health Care Law
By Phil Galewitz
January 30, 2012
KFF Health News Original
DELRAY BEACH, Fla. — Waiting for Newt Gingrich to arrive at a Republican Jewish Coalition rally here late afternoon Friday, Connie Cestari, 80, said health care will be a top issue for her in November. She said she’s voting Republican in part to make sure the 2010 health overhaul gets overturned, because it gives the government too big a role in health. […]
Today’s Headlines – February 22, 2012
By Stephanie Stapleton
February 22, 2012
KFF Health News Original
Good morning! The Associated Press/Washington Post: Supreme Court Adds 30 Minutes to Next Month’s Health Care Arguments, Up To 6 Hours Overall The Supreme Court has added another 30 minutes to upcoming arguments over President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul. The sessions now will span six hours over three days in late March. The justices […]
Family Planning Summit Next Month ‘Could Mark Turning Point For Maternal Health’
June 8, 2012
Morning Briefing
In this post in the Guardian’s “Poverty Matters” blog, U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA) Executive Director Babatunde Osotimehin discusses a family planning summit to be held in London next month, writing the UNFPA “is supporting the initiative so that it can gain traction and support among other donors and UN member countries.” He writes, “More than 200 million women, largely in the least developed countries, want to use modern family planning methods but can’t access them,” and continues, “Enabling women to control the number and spacing of their children is essential to reducing maternal deaths.” The summit, co-hosted by the U.K. government and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, “will be launched to meet this unfilled need for modern family planning in developing countries by tackling the estimated $3.6 billion (
Today’s Headlines – January 17, 2012
By Stephanie Stapleton
January 17, 2012
KFF Health News Original
Good morning! Here are your early morning headlines! The Washington Post: Obama Hopes To Strike Balance In State Of Union Address The president has been using the refrain “Change is . . . ” to catalogue a list of actions — including rescuing the auto industry, enacting health-care reform and ending the war in Iraq — he […]
Today’s Headlines – March 27, 2012
By Stephanie Stapleton
March 27, 2012
KFF Health News Original
Good morning! It’s day two of the Supreme Court hearings on the health law. There’s lots to read — The New York Times: Most Oppose At Least Part Of Overhaul, Poll Finds Two-thirds of Americans want the Supreme Court to overturn some or all of the health care law, even though large majorities support a […]
Today’s Headlines – December 20, 2011
By Stephanie Stapleton
December 20, 2011
KFF Health News Original
Good morning! Here are your morning headlines to get you up and at ’em: The New York Times: House Set To Vote Down Payroll Tax Cut Extension A core group of conservative House members … have balked all year at short-term spending agreements, including proposed legislation to raise the debt ceiling and bills to increase […]
Lawsuit Accuses Company Of Fraudulently Cycling Patients Through Nursing Homes, Hospice Care
By Jordan Rau
January 4, 2012
KFF Health News Original
Whistleblowers allege that AseraCare improperly channeled people to gain maximum Medicare reimbursements. In a separate suit, federal attorneys say the company pressured employees to enroll patients in hospice who weren’t dying.
Document: GOP Payroll Tax Bill – Summary, Text Of Health Care Sections
December 11, 2011
KFF Health News Original
On Friday, Dec. 9, House Republicans unveiled the “Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act,” which avoid the scheduled cut to Medicare reimbursement rates for physicians – the “doc fix.”
Bill Gates, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Discuss Collaborating On Health, Agriculture Programs
May 31, 2012
Morning Briefing
Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, on Wednesday “met Uttar Pradesh [UP] Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav in Lucknow,” India, where they “discussed health care programs in the state that Mr. Gates intends to take up through” the foundation, NDTV reports (Zanane, 5/30). The Gates Foundation will work with the state “on health and related developmental projects, particularly in the areas of maternal, neonatal, child health and telemedicine,” India Today writes (Srivastava, 5/30). According to NDTV, “A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) will be signed within two months between the UP government and the foundation, with the objective that the foundation shall provide technical, management and program design support in maternal, neonatal and child health, vaccination and other health- and agriculture-related programs” (5/30). “‘The foundation will also support the state in tackling health-related challenges by experimenting with new and innovative methods for effective behavioral changes, delivery of services and management of health systems,’ the UP CM said after meeting Gates,” the Daily Mail writes (Srivastava, 5/30).
Analyzing Romney’s Leadership On Health Care
By Martha Bebinger, WBUR
December 20, 2011
KFF Health News Original
Former Massachsetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s years as governor are defined by his role in reforming health care in the Bay State. It’s sometimes a political albatross, but it’s also proof, the candidate for president himself says, that he could bridge party divisions in Washington.
Today’s Headlines – December 16, 2011
By Stephanie Stapleton
December 16, 2011
KFF Health News Original
Good morning and happy Friday! Here are your morning headlines. The Washington Post: Medicare’s ‘SGR’ Formula Has Snowballed To Budget-Busting Juggernaut It was adopted by Congress in 1997 almost as an afterthought — a new formula to keep Medicare spending on doctors from growing faster than the economy as a whole. But like a snowball […]
Gingrich, Romney Go At It Over Abortion
By Julie Rovner, NPR News
January 12, 2012
KFF Health News Original
This story comes from our partner ‘s Shots blog. The latest abortion battle doesn’t pit people on opposite sides of the issue against each other. Rather, it features two of the leading GOP candidates for president, each charging that the other is less than pure as the race heads to socially conservative South Carolina. Both […]
Feds Jump-Start Health Insurance Co-Ops With Loans
By Harris Meyer
February 21, 2012
KFF Health News Original
Seven organizations will receive a total of $639 million in federal low-interest loans to launch new health insurance plans in eight states, the federal government announced Tuesday.
Today’s Headlines – December 19, 2011
By Stephanie Stapleton
December 19, 2011
KFF Health News Original
Good morning! Here are your A.M. headlines to get you going: The New York Times: Extension Of Tax Cut Stalls In House As GOP Objects The once-seemingly sure deal, which allowed the Senate to recess for the year, was for a $33 billion package of bills to keep the Social Security tax paid by most […]
Today’s Headlines – December 13, 2011
By Stephanie Stapleton
December 13, 2011
KFF Health News Original
Good morning! Here are your early morning headlines: The Washington Post: House To Vote On Extension Of Payroll-Tax Reduction A Republican aide said conservative lawmakers have been persuaded to support the bill because of how its costs would be covered. The bill, which would also extend unemployment benefits and avert deep scheduled cuts in Medicare […]
Reversal On Health Mandate Came Late For Gingrich And Romney
By Julie Rovner, NPR News
December 28, 2011
KFF Health News Original
This story comes from our partner ‘s Shots blog. Opposition to the administration’s overhaul of health care has almost become an article of faith with every Republican running for president. Candidates promise to repeal the law and its less-than-popular requirement for most Americans to either have health insurance or to pay a penalty starting in […]
