Today's headlines include reports about the announcement by the Department of Health and Human Services that people who get their health insurance through high-risk insurance pools will have an extra two months before this program ends. ...
Tags: high-risk insurance, White House, Obamacare, Health Law
Halfway through the six-month enrollment period for private insurance under the health care law, just one in four adult enrollees are between ages 18 and 34, the crucial demographic group whose participation rates are key to keeping monthly ...
The Associated Press/Miami Herald: Proposed Medicare Drug Change Stirs Access Worries In a move that some fear could compromise care for Medicare recipients, the Obama administration is proposing to remove special protections that ...
Tags: OBAMA, Medicare Drug, Administration Proposes Medicare Drug
The relaxed timetables reflect efforts by the insurance industry, as well as the Obama administration, to "coax" people towards "cementing" their 2014 coverage, reports Bloomberg News. In addition, a Commonwealth survey finds more people ...
Tags: Premium Payment, Insurers Extend Premium Payment Deadlines
A selection of health policy stories from California, Florida and Minnesota. Los Angeles Times: Blue Shield Of California Rate Hike Is Excessive, Regulator Says California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones criticized Blue Shield of ...
Americans' spending on health care rose a relatively modest 3.7 percent in 2012 -- slower than the growth of the overall economy -- dropping from 17.3 percent of U.S. spending to 17.2 percent, according to an annual report from the Centers ...
Tags: Health Care, Health Care Spending, Modest Rise For Health Costs
Many barriers exist to implementing approaches to medical liability that could serve as alternatives to federal tort reform, a series of studies funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) found. Physicians can be ...
Tags: Medical Liability, New Approaches, Barriers
Although many blame the health law for all recent health care cost increases, trends that bump up the cost of care were in place before the law was enacted and are being driven up even more by routine costs, some say. Kaiser Health News: ...
The early morning highlights from the major news organizations examine today's deadline for enrolling for health insurance that would begin Jan. 1, as well as a variety of other health law stories and several articles on mental health ...