CMA Press Clips
Daily  reports on health care policy and medicine from newspapers and magazines throughout California and around the nation.

L.A. County slashes doctors' reimbursement rate
Los Angeles Times - 2/17/10 - Emergency room doctors and on-call specialists treating poor, uninsured patients at private hospitals in Los Angeles County saw their reimbursement rate slashed by county supervisors Tuesday.

GOP sees possible upside in health care summit
Associated Press - 2/17/10 - Congressional Republicans see a chance for political gain in President Barack Obama's televised health care summit next week, even though the president will be running the show.

White House insists healthcare summit no trap
Washington Post - 2/16/10 - The purpose of the Obama administration's upcoming summit on healthcare is to find solutions to issues like soaring insurance premiums, not score political points against the Republicans, the White House insisted on Tuesday.

Will Health Care Savings Be Used To Reduce Deficit?
NPR - 2/16/10 - In their effort to overhaul the health system, President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats pressed hospitals, drug makers and other providers to accept billions of dollars in government payment cuts and new fees to help finance the legislation.

OPINION: Think tort reform will control soaring health spending?
Sacramento Bee - 2/17/10 - Tort reform has become a sort of all-purpose Republican cure for what ails the American health-care system.

Aspirin Found to Aid Cancer Patients
Wall Street Journal - 2/17/10 - Breast-cancer patients who take aspirin daily may cut their risk of dying of the disease by 50%, according to a study published Tuesday.