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Infant Deaths Higher Among Deprived Communities And Ethnic Minorities
Rates of infant death remain high in parts of England, largely among deprived communities and ethnic minorities, finds a study published on bmj.com today.

Availability Of IVF Treatment In UK Still Poor Compared With Rest Of Europe
Commenting on the news announced today by ESHRE"s European IVF monitoring consortium on the improvements in the quality, safety and efficacy of ART, Clare Lewis-Jones MBE, Chief Executive of Infertility Network UK said "We are angry that although the UK pioneered infertility treatment, we are still among the lowest providers in Europe of NHS treatment, and these figures show that availability in the UK is less than one third of that in Denmark. Recent measures announced by the Government to encourage implementation of the NICE Guideline have led to an improvement in the provision in some areas but more needs to be done by Primary Care Trusts in England to ensure that patients have equal and timely access to the full range of treatment recommended by NICE, and to tackle the ongoing variations in provision that exist across the country.
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Lawmakers Seek Price Tag They Can Agree On

"Lawmakers working to overhaul the U.S. health-care system face a pressure-filled July after leaving town this week without resolving the biggest questions dividing Democrats and Republicans," Bloomberg reports. Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee - which observers deem most likely to come up with a passable, bipartisan bill - have been working to reduce the cost of the overhaul to gain Republican support, but had not yet released a proposal. Bloomberg adds: "While the Congressional Budget Office said options under consideration by the committee can keep the cost within Baucus"s goal of $1 trillion over 10 years, how to pay for the plan remains unsettled. So is structuring some kind of government-run competition for insurers. ... "Nothing has been set," Montana Democrat [Max] Baucus told reporters in the Capitol on June 25. The recess offers a chance for "taking stock," he said" (Jensen and Livkin, 6/29). Meanwhile, two leading Democrats who aren"t members of Congress, former Obama transition chief and Clinton Chief of Staff John Podesta, and former Senate Majority Leader and Obama"s former nominee for health secretary, Tom Daschle, "outlined a framework for financing a $1.2 trillion health care" over the next decade, enough to cover the expected costs of the reform bill, USA Today reports. The plan, released by Podesta"s Center for American Progress, would raise $400 billion each from Medicare and Medicaid reductions, new taxes, and expected savings from modernizing the health system (Page, 6/29). Daschle and Podesta also told reporters Monday that using "reconciliation," a Senate procedural tactic that could mute Republican opposition by preventing a filibuster, should remain on the table for Democrats, and that Senate Republicans were demanding too many sacrifices in their calls for a bipartisan compromise, the Associated Press/USA Today reports. "There is a point at which you have to move on," Podesta said (6/29). This information was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at kaiserhealthnews.org. © Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


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