Jul 03 Watch U.S. Employers Get Year Reprieve on Health Care Mandate The White House announced a year reprieve on the Affordable Care Act mandate that says companies with 50 or more full-time workers must provide insurance by Jan. 2014. Gwen Ifill gets debate from Ron Pollack of Families USA and Tom… Continue watching
Jul 03 Selling Obamacare: Is the White House Ready? By Elizabeth Summers The business mandate within the Affordable Care Act that requires employers to provide coverage is now delayed, and that is prompting reaction from critics who say other parts of the law should be put on hold, too -- if… Continue reading
Jul 03 What the Delay in Health Reform Law Provision Really Means President Barack Obama speaks about Affordable Care Act in San Jose, Calif., in June. Photo by Stephen Lam/Getty Images. Story by Kaiser Health News. The Obama administration's decision Tuesday to delay a major component of the Affordable Care Act --… Continue reading
Jul 02 Key Provision of Health Reform Law Delayed Until 2015 By News Desk President Obama's signature on the health care reform law at the White House in March 2010. Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy. The Obama administration announced Tuesday it is delaying the employer mandate portion of the health care law… Continue reading
Jun 28 Watch Health Care Law Aims to Reduce Need to Rehospitalize Medicare Patients Health Care Law Aims to Reduce Need to Rehospitalize Medicare Patients… Continue watching
Jun 28 Health Reform Brings Heavy Fines for Hospitals With High Readmissions By Sarah Clune Should hospitals be held accountable for what happens to patients once they're discharged? A new policy under the Affordable Care Act says yes. Photos by Jim Petit. The federal government began fining hospitals based on how many Medicare patients were… Continue reading
Jun 28 Seven Tips for Staying Out of the Hospital After You Leave Nearly two million Medicare beneficiaries are re-admitted to the hospital within 30 days of discharge every year. A slate of new programs is hoping to bring that number down. Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images. Two things keep retired engineer… Continue reading
Jun 28 How Your Mental Health May Be Impacting Your Career Editor's Note: This article is part of a series in which the PBS NewsHour and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, or OECD, explore how health care and health policy in OECD's 34 member countries compare with… Continue reading
Jun 26 Watch Hot, Dry Winds Help Spread Deadly Valley Fever Infections In the Mojave Desert, extreme heat and wind made worse by more intense weather conditions in recent years has helped the spread of a resilient fungus that causes a deadly infection known as Valley Fever. Ray Suarez reports on the… Continue watching
Jun 26 Valley Fever: 10 Things CDC Says You Should Know Valley fever is on the rise in the southwestern United States, including Arizona's Sonoran Desert. Photo courtesy of Flickr user Are W. It was a Thursday morning in March that Al Rountree called his boss to say he was… Continue reading