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Post-Surgery Distress In Children Eased By Hormone Treatment
A scary unknown for many children, the prospect of surgery can cause intense preoperative anxiety. While some amount of stress is normal, what many parents do not know is that extreme anxiety before surgery can contribute to the occurrence of emergence delirium, a distressing incidence of acute behavioral changes experienced when "waking up" from anesthesia.
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State Budget Puts Californians' Health At Risk
The California Medical Association expressed grave concerns about the budget passed by the Legislature, pointing to deep cuts in Medi-Cal and the Healthy Families Program that will deny hundreds of thousands of the state"s most vulnerable residents - children, the elderly and the poor - from getting the health care they need.
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White House Reassures Drug CEOs: Reimportation Could Be 'Unnecessary'
The Wall Street Journal reports: "Industry representatives met at the White House Tuesday with officials to consider specifics of a cost-saving agreement the industry reached last month with health-care negotiators and to discuss other concerns that the pharmaceutical industry has with the larger health-care overhaul being considered by Congress. As a presidential candidate, President Barack Obama endorsed re-importation, an idea the industry opposes. White House officials have told the industry if the larger health care bill passes, the cost savings will be so great that reimportation will be unnecessary, according to Billy Tauzin, president of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America." Some of the pharmaceutical companies represented at the Tuesday meeting included Merck & Co., Pfizer Inc., Amgen Inc., Abbott Laboratories and AstraZeneca.
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President Obama Joins In Chorus Of Complaints About CBO Figures

President Barack Obama joins the chorus of Democrats who criticize Congressional Budget Office numbers and claim that their analyses estimates aren"t fair. The criticism comes after the agency provided $1 to $1.6 trillion estimates for two of the Democrats" draft health care reform bills. ABC News reports on the question of whether President Obama will dismiss whatever price tag the CBO eventually attaches to the final version of the congressional Democrats" proposal: "The reason politicians and their staffers are wondering is because for the first time, last night the president expressed frustration at the way CBO - long regarded as a fair and non-partisan arbiter - makes its analyses." Some Democrats, such as Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., expressed frustration that the CBO doesn"t factor in cost-savings from prevention programs or their other health benefits. Meanwhile, President Obama also talked about the CBO estimates and "promised that "about two-thirds of the cost would be covered by reallocating dollars that are already in the health care system -- taxpayers are already paying for it -- but it"s not going to stuff that"s making you healthier." Roughly a third more "will come from new revenue" - a tax increase on wealthier individuals." He also noted that the hard figures don"t "count all the savings that may come from prevention, may come from eliminating all the paperwork and bureaucracy because we"ve put forward health IT, it doesn"t come from the evidence-based care and changes in reimbursement that I"ve already discussed about. ... The CBO, which sort of polices what all various programs cost, they"re not willing to credit us with those savings" (Tapper, 6/25). 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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