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Obesity a national security issue, experts agree
May 23, 2012 Improving school lunches and nutrition education are a key way to get Americans healthy enough to join the military, and a badly divided Congress might be amenable to cooperating on this one issue, obesity policy experts said said Wednesday. The nation’s health is “a train wreck that is occurring in ...
Supreme Court to say yes or no to gene patenting case
February 21, 2012
FROM NEXTGOV
Is a single human gene, isolated from its cell and chromosome, a natural product or a patentable piece of intellectual property? That's the question at the center of a case the Supreme Court could take up Tuesday. The answer could have wide-reaching implications for the biotechnology sector, which relies on ...
Obama sticks to same Medicare cost-savers
February 13, 2012 President Obama sticks to his Medicare proposals from last year in his 2013 budget, asking seniors to pay more for their Medicare while also cutting payments to health care providers. His budget projects Medicare spending of $528 billion in fiscal 2013. The president estimates that Medicare can save at least ...
What kind of health insurance do the GOP candidates get?
January 12, 2012 Charles Krupa/AP Mitt Romney's rivals may enjoy repeating his line that he likes "being able to fire people who provide services to me," but when it comes to health insurance, he has the luxury of choosing among several coverage options, thanks to the health care reform law he signed in ...
What's at stake if Congress fails this time?
December 19, 2011 Congress is threatening stalemate again, and this time the effect would be felt by millions of average Americans. Here is what's at stake if lawmakers fail to stitch together some deal to keep alive jobless benefits, the payroll tax cut, and the "Doc fix" patch. UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE Roughly 1.8 million ...
House votes to repeal contractor withholding tax
October 27, 2011 The House voted 405-16 on Thursday to repeal a law requiring governments at the federal, state, and local levels to withhold 3 percent of what they would pay most contractors until those vendors have fully paid their taxes. But it remains uncertain what the Senate will do. Last week, Senate ...
HHS drops controversial long-term care program
October 14, 2011 The Obama administration has given up on a controversial long-term care insurance program called the CLASS Act, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said on Friday. Sebelius told Congress she did not see a way forward for the program, which Senate appropriators had cut off funding for in September. ...
National health program triples in size
October 13, 2011 A government program that helps medical professionals cover the cost of their education if they practice in underserved areas has nearly tripled in size, federal officials announced on Thursday. The National Health Service Corps, which received $1.5 billion in funding from the 2010 health care reform law, has increased from ...
With a little cash, health IT on the way
April 26, 2011
FROM NEXTGOV
The new federal center set up to launch U.S. health care into the digital age has already certified more than 600 new health information technology products and is ready to start helping providers set these systems up, its new head said on Tuesday. Farzad Mostashari, just two weeks into his ...
FDA says border check system back on track
April 14, 2011
FROM NEXTGOV
A system to aid the examination of food and drug imports will be running nationwide by the end of this year after a software glitch held it up for months, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Margaret Hamburg told Congress on Wednesday. But she said the cuts being made to her ...
