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Mass. Gov. Again Seeks Health Insurance Payment Overhaul
Articles detail the Massachusetts state of the state address, efforts in Iowa to probe denials in the high risk pool and other legislative news.
Boston Globe: Patrick Seeks Broad Changes For Community Colleges Beyond the community college proposal, Patrick introduced just two other initiatives: a health insurance payment overhaul and a criminal sentencing package, both of which he has previously supported. … The governor also touted the state’s success in curbing health insurance rate increases, from an average of 16.3 percent two years ago to 2.3 percent this year (Bierman and Phillips, 1/24).
WBUR: Patrick Outlines Initiatives In State Of The State Address To address the rising cost of health care, the governor once again called on the Legislature to pass a bill he filed last year aimed at cost containment.
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.
The Wall Street Journal: A Brief Look Ahead – Health Care On Trial; How The Individual Mandate Might Play At The High Court Three of four federal appeals courts have rejected challenges, but the high-court outcome is uncertain. Based on prior writings, the four liberal justices seem likely to uphold the act, while only Justice Clarence Thomas appears sure to vote against it. A
Viewpoints: Is Berwick A Scapegoat?; Rep. Smith On Kagan; Daschle On Health IT
Boston Globe: Senate GOP Scapegoats Another Local Academic Don Berwick, the prominent pediatrician and Harvard School of Public Health professor who headed the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, has officially stepped down, another victim of Washington’s hyper-partisan politics. … Berwick’s transgression? In the past, he had spoken favorably of Britain’s National Health Service. What’s more, he had had the temerity to acknowledge the obvious: Financial resources to pay for health care are limited, and therefore it makes sense to compare the effectiveness of various treatments and decide which are worth funding and which are not (12/2).
The Washington Post: The White House Needs To Come Clean On Elena Kagan And The Affordable Care Act If the Supreme Court upholds the individual mandate, it will set a precedent for future Congresses and expand the federal government’s reach into our everyday lives. …
Democrats Ask Obama Not To Dilute Contraceptive Benefits
The Washington Post: Democrats Lobby Against Any Broader Exceptions To Contraceptive Coverage Democratic lawmakers, fearful that President Obama is on the verge of significantly diluting a proposed regulation that would give millions of women access to birth control without out-of-pocket insurance charges, are furiously lobbying the White House to hold the line (Aizenman, 11/22).
CQ HealthBeat: Democrats Try To Ward Off Changes To Exemptions For Birth Control Coverage A group of House Democrats asked President Obama to oppose expanding an exemption that allows religious groups to opt out of providing free contraceptive services through their employee health plans.