Daily Report Blog

The 4/23/12 USA Today reported that the ACA will save Medicare beneficiaries $208 billion through 2020 and save Medicare itself $200 billion through 2016, based on several factors—increased use of preventive services, senior citizen prescription drug savings of $3.2 billion, and $4.1 billion recovered in 2011 through anti-fraud efforts.

The New York Times reported on 4/25/12 that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has identified a case of mad cow disease, the first case in six years, in a dairy cow in central California.  The cow was never presented for human consumption, so at no time presented a risk to the food supply.

The U.S. Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues is seeking public comments “on the ethical issues raised by the ready availability of large-scale human genome sequence data, with regard to privacy and data access and the balancing of individual and societal interests.”