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Finance Committee Seeks To Trim Cost Of Bill
"A draft proposal in the Senate to overhaul the nation"s health-care system would require most people to buy health insurance, authorize an expansion of Medicaid coverage and create consumer-owned cooperative plans instead of the government coverage that President Obama is seeking," the Washington Post reports. The proposal, a preliminary version of legislation being shaped by the Senate Finance Committee, also contained "an array of coverage provisions that were drastically scaled back from earlier versions, as lawmakers seek to shrink the bill"s overall cost."
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Disease Prevention Not Necessarily A Money Saver
The Associated Press reports on the costs of disease prevention: "When it comes to health care spending, an ounce of prevention is seldom worth a pound of cure. ...The truth is, shockingly few prevention efforts actually save the health care system money overall, despite claims by the president and some in Congress."
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G8 Off Track On Aid Commitments To Africa; France, Italy Responsible For 80% Of Shortfall, Report Says

The Group of Eight (G8) industrial nations are "collectively off course in delivering on a 2005 pact to more than double aid to Africa through 2010," according to an annual report released Thursday by the One Campaign, Reuters/Washington Post reports (Wroughton, Reuters/Washington Post, 6/11). "One said the world"s richest countries had delivered only a third of the extra aid they promised by 2010, despite being two-thirds of the way to their deadline," according to AFP/Google.com. Italy and France are responsible for 80 percent of the shortfall, according to the report. On the other hand, Canada, Japan and the U.S. were meeting their aid commitments, while Britain and Germany were pushing hard to meet more ambitious targets, the report found. One"s 2009 DATA report was released just a day before G8 finance ministers are scheduled for a two-day meeting in Italy, AFP/Google.com reports (AFP/Google.com, 6/11). The report tracks the progress of the G8"s 2005 promises made during a meeting at Gleneagles, Scotland, the Mail & Guardian reports (Mail & Guardian, 6/11). According to the report, it will be "challenging" for G8 nations to "get back on track to keep their commitments" because of how "far some G8 countries have drifted from their promises" (Reuters/Washington Post, 6/11). Al Jazeera reports that France"s development assistance to Africa "took a dive" between 2007 and 2008, and the country has "delivered only seven percent of what it promised at Gleneagles." Italy has so far delivered "only three percent of what it promised and has cut aid to Africa since the 2005 summit." To meet their commitments, G8 countries must deliver on average an additional $7.2 billion in both 2009 and 2010 (Al Jazeera, 6/11).This information was reprinted from globalhealth.kff.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at globalhealth.kff.org. © Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


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