Health Aug 27 Pricing in Your State’s Insurance Marketplace Wondering how much insurance premiums will cost under the upcoming insurance exchanges? In many states, information is now becoming available. Photo by Lilli Day / Getty Images. One of the biggest questions about Obamacare is whether its new consumer protections…
Health Feb 13 How Undocumented Immigrants Sometimes Receive Medicaid Treatment Photo by Adam Berry/Getty Images. During the debate over the 2010 federal health care overhaul, Democrats promised that illegal immigrants wouldn't be among the 27 million people who'd gain coverage. President Barack Obama repeated that pledge last month when…
Health Nov 15 Health Reform Deadline Looms for States With a federal deadline looming Friday, eight states remained undecided about whether to build state-based online insurance markets designed to help millions of people buy health coverage starting next October. Still wrestling with the decision as of midday Thursday were…
Health Nov 09 Obama Administration Delays Deadline for Key Piece of Health Reform Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius makes her way to a news conference outside of Frager's Hardware on Capitol Hill to announce "a framework on affordable insurance exchanges" in 2011. Photo by Tom Williams/Roll Call. The Obama…
Health Oct 01 Primer: How Will The Election Change Medicaid? Protestors carry signs as they demonstrate against proposed cuts to Medicaid programs outside San Francisco city hall on Sept. 21, 2011. Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images The future of Medicaid -- the state-federal workhorse of the nation's health system that…
Health Jun 21 What’s at Stake for Medicaid as Supreme Court Weighs Health Reform? Medical assistant Ann Valdez gives Christian Casteneda, 12, a physical at a community health center in Aurora, Colo. The clinic has received some 6,000 more Medicaid eligable patients since the health care reform law was passed in 2010. Photo by…
Health Oct 07 Advisory Panel: Essential Health Benefits Package Must Be Affordable The government moved a step closer Friday toward defining what "essential benefits" would be offered by companies selling coverage to millions of Americans in new insurance exchanges. In a 297-page report, the Institute of Medicine, a federal advisory panel, laid…