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Kaiser Health News
As President Donald Trump signals impatience to wind down emergency aid to Puerto Rico, the challenges wrought by Hurricane Maria to the health of Puerto Ricans and the island's fragile health system are in many ways just beginning. Three weeks after that direct hit, nearly four dozen deaths are associated with the storm. But the true toll on Puerto Rico's 3.4 million residents is likely to involve sickness and loss of life that will only become apparent in the coming months and in indirect ways.
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The Hill
Negotiations on a bipartisan bill to fund the popular Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) have made little progress, a top House Republican said Monday. Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-Oregon) said Democrats have not made a counteroffer on paying for an extension of the program.
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Vox
On Sept. 28, 2016, a 3-year-old girl named Elodie Fowler slid into an MRI machine at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital in Palo Alto, California. Doctors wanted to better understand a rare genetic condition that was causing swelling along the right side of her body and problems processing regular food. The scan took about 30 minutes. The hospital's doctors used the results to start Elodie on an experimental new drug regimen.
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Detroit Free Press
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder finally responded this week to a series of pointed questions from a U.S. senator regarding Medicaid expansion in Michigan, defending the program and saying the senator painted an inaccurate picture of its costs. Snyder wrote a letter to U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) telling the chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee that he "respectfully disagrees that the approach used in your letter to calculate the growth in expenditures is an accurate portrayal of this successful program."
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The Associated Press via Daily Advertiser
Louisiana's Republican elected officials have targeted the Medicaid program as a behemoth that will suck up every available dollar if the state, which is struggling with continuing financial problems, doesn't get it under control. By fulfilling one of his major campaign promises, Gov. John Bel Edwards has given them more ammunition for their grousing, by boosting the program's costs dramatically with his Medicaid expansion.
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New Hampshire Union Leader
Gov. Chris Sununu has responded to U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) who is investigating overspending on Medicaid, telling Johnson his numbers on New Hampshire are all wrong. Johnson is chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, which is investigating what it claims are excessive Medicaid expenditures in eight states.
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Concord Monitor
With some New Hampshire health care premiums projected to spike more than 50 percent, policymakers tasked with stabilizing the state’s individual insurance market are facing a steep climb. But weeks into the creation of a study commission of legislators and stakeholders, one idea is gaining broad support. If the Department of Health and Human Services can identify high-risk and high-cost patients and move them off the individual market and into more stable state-run insurance programs, policymakers say, those remaining on that exchange could see their costs stabilize. Now, members of a study commission exploring mechanisms for that change are looking to two states — Iowa and Arkansas — for guidance.
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Health Affairs
Investigators examined the impact of California's early Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act on the use of payday loans, a form of high-interest borrowing used by low- and middle-income Americans.
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The Hill
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia) is calling for the White House to withdraw the nomination of Rep. Tom Marino (R-Pennsylvania) to serve as the nation's drug czar, after an investigation suggested he led a bid to weaken enforcement of the nation's drug policing laws. In in-depth reports released Sunday, the news organizations detailed Marino' involvement in helping pass legislation reportedly weakening the Drug Enforcement Administration's (DEA) authority to halt drug distributors. This reportedly undermined the DEA's effort to stop the flow of prescription painkillers, drugs that have contributed to rising overdose death rates.
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