Welcome to The Morning CheckUp, ThinkProgress Health’s 7:00 AM round-up of the latest in health policy and politics. Here is what we’re reading, what are you?
Rick Perry hits Obama on abortion: Telling a Los Angeles anti-abortion rally Sunday that President Barack Obama was turning abortion into “a U.S. foreign export,” Perry said. He also “said stem cell research under the Obama administration was ‘turning the remains of unborn children into nothing more than raw material.’” [Politico]
Pawlenty coins ‘Obamneycare’: “President Obama said that he designed Obamacare after Romneycare and basically made it Obamneycare,” Pawlenty said on Fox News Sunday. What I don’t understand is that they both continue to defend it.” [ThinkProgress Health]
Health care a big issue in NH debate: As the GOP presidential candidates prepare for tonight’s debate in New Hampshire, Protect Your Care is already up with an ad featuring “a senior citizen expressing worry about what House Republicans’ 2012 budget would do to Medicare.” [The Hill]
Involving judges earlier lowers malpractice costs: “The approach, known as judge-directed negotiation, is seen by the Obama administration as offering states a way to curb liability expenses that have sharply increased health care costs nationally.” [NYT]
10 states where abortion is virtually illegal: Idaho, Iowa, Utah, Louisiana, Kansas, Virginia, Mississippi, Indiana, Ohio, and South Dakota. [AlterNet]
Anti-choice advocates see Hyde amendment as a major obstacle: “In a strange twist of fate, the Hyde Amendment — whose purpose was to deny federal funding for abortions — has become a stumbling block in efforts to stop abortions altogether.” [Reuters]
Why the British fear American-style health care: “So frightening is the Yankee example that any British politician who values his job has to explicitly disavow it as a possible outcome. Twice.” [LA Times]
GOP ideas are part of health care reform: In fact, the five major components of the Affordable Care Act were all either developed or supported by Republicans. [Kaiser Health News]
The Joplin tornado and the importance of electronic health records: “In the days following last month’s devastating tornado in Joplin, Mo., one of the reports widely shared locally was news of X-rays having been blown all the way to Springfield, some 70 miles away. The hospital that lost those X-rays, St. John’s Regional Medical Center, was badly damaged by the storm and has been shut down. But it still has its patient records intact. The hospital had completed its conversion to electronic health records on May 1 — three weeks before the storm.” [NPR]
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