Capsules: Deficit hawk or dove? Enzi's autism stance

On Kaiser Health News' news blog, Phil Galewitz examines Sen. Mike Enzi's efforts to provide federal funds for autism research, even as the Wyoming Republican calls for major budget cuts.

Phil Galewitz also reports on a new study that finds about 12 percent of those receiving the Medicare prescription drug benefit fell into that program's "doughnut hole."

Also on the blog, Shefali S. Kulkarni reports that new polling data show that "27.2 percent of Texans reported being uninsured in the first half of 2011 - the highest percentage of any state in the U.S. But that's nothing new for the Lone Star State." Check out what else is on the blog.