Category: The Lancet

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image Volume 380, Issue 9848, Pages 1133 – 1134, 29 September 2012

WORLD REPORT  Comprehensive domestic health-care reform is one of the top defining issues in the campaign, overshadowing global health. Susan Jaffe reports from Washington, DC.

President Barack Obama and his rival Republican Mitt Romney would agree that the American health-care system is unsustainable, providing some of the world’s most expensive and yet fragmented care. But as they campaign for the presidency, the two candidates offer profoundly different solutions.

“The Affordable Care Act helps make sure you don’t have to worry about going broke just because one of your loved ones gets sick”, said Obama, describing his signature legislative achievement at a recent campaign stop in Colorado. “I don’t think a working mom in Denver should have to wait to get a mammogram just because money is tight”, he continued. “That’s why we passed this law. It was the right thing to do.” [more, as PDF]  

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Volume 380, Issue 9846,  15 September 2012

 

WORLD REPORT   Additional new health benefits for women began under the US Affordable Care Act last month, which experts hope will remain after the Nov 6 election. Susan Jaffe reports from Washington, DC. 

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney promises to dismantle President Barack Obama’s landmark health-care reform law if elected. But as the presidential campaign progresses, various provisions of the law continue to kick into gear…. [more]
Panel: Abortion and the Affordable Care Act

In the final days of the congressional health reform debate, abortion coverage nearly derailed the legislation…. [more]

 

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The US Supreme Court decided last week that most provisions in the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act were constitutional. Susan Jaffe reports from Washington, DC.
Last week’s historic ruling by the US Supreme Court preserving nearly all of President Barack Obama’s landmark health law may have finally settled some legal questions, only to shift a re-energised debate about improving the American health-care system to the political arena.In addition to providing health coverage to some 32 million uninsured Americans, other changes in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will affect nearly every patient as it overhauls the US$2·7 trillion health-care system.  MORE

 

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image Volume 379, Issue 9828, Page 1775, 12 May 2012

The US Food and Drug Administration is calling for greater reliance on global partners to improve the safety of America’s foreign imports. Susan Jaffe reports from Washington, DC.

In its latest effort to promote a global strategy for protecting Americans against unsafe imported pharmaceutical, food, and medical products, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has called for unprecedented international cooperation to cope with seemingly overwhelming challenges. FULL STORY