News bites: The Bachmann vs. Romney edition

{mosads}The insurance industry wants Medicare to postpone coverage of an anti-obesity therapy plan, Inside Health Policy reports (subscription required).

Modern Healthcare writes about proposed regulations that could energize the labor movement in healthcare by making it easier to hold union elections (subscription required).

Kaiser Health News and The Washington Post report on a new government outreach program to legal immigrants who need healthcare.

Liberal blogger Richard Eskow counts eight ways President Obama’s proposal to raise the Medicare eligibility age to 67 is the “worst presidential bargain” since the 1854 slavery compromise. 

Emergency rooms brace for more visits from uninsured patients as stimulus funding for health insurance for the unemployed runs out, The Associated Press reports.

The healthcare reform law’s Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute announces funding opportunities.