Colorado news roundup: Health agenda: Pay now or later

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Other news summaries

Grasscatcher, from the National Conference of State Legislatures

Today's Health News, from The Colorado Trust

Colorado daily news roundup, from Stateline

Daily Health Policy Report, from Kaiser Health News

Health agenda:
Pay now or later

Health care

Health Policy Solutions: Health agenda: Pay now or later
As Colorado continues to face budget challenges, number crunchers are actually floating a trial balloon that would opt for cancer over prevention. Editor's note: The piece includes comment from Colorado Center on Law and Policy Health Care Program Director Elisabeth Arenales.
Also: Health Policy Solutions: Health, education budgets challenge lawmakers

Jobs and economic security

Pueblo Chieftain: Foreclosure dip offers ray of hope
Pueblo County Public Trustee Nick Gradisar cautioned some of the drop likely stemmed from a timeout taken by mortgage companies to "get their paperwork straightened out."
Also: Vail Daily: County foreclosures barely miss record

Family economic security

Fort Collins Coloradoan editorial: Let's change conversation on child care
Roundtable suggests stressing importance of improved access on business's bottom line.

The national scene

Bloomberg News: Hard Times Waning as Recovery May Bring Bonuses to South Dakota
As some governors continue to wage war on public employee unions and four states including New York and California wrestle with mid-year deficits, cost-cutting followed by higher-than- expected revenue has officials in South Dakota and other states looking to spend the first surplus dollars in years.

NPR via Kaiser Health News: Should Doctors Be 'Parsimonious' About Health Care?
A major medical group issued ethical guidelines on Monday that take the provocative position of urging doctors to consider cost-effectiveness when deciding how to treat their patients.

Think tanks

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: Coming Reductions in Discretionary Funding Will Be Larger For Non-Defense Programs than Defense Programs
While the cuts scheduled over the next decade will squeeze defense appropriations significantly over the decade, they will shrink non-defense appropriations even more.

Brookings Institution: Automatic Spending Cuts and Programs for the Poor
The failure of the congressional super committee to reach a budget accord means that the budget ax will fall across many domestic spending programs and defense spending in the next fiscal year, including a number of programs that help the poor. Senior Fellow Ron Haskins says that while the automatic budget cuts will do some harm to some anti-poverty programs, the largest and most important programs - including Medicaid and Social Security - have been largely shielded.