Nov 18 What’s in the Senate Food Safety Bill? After several years of high-profile salmonella outbreaks involving eggs, peanut butter and other foods, the Senate on Wednesday moved forward with the most significant food-safety bill in 70 years. If it passes, the bill would expand the Food… Continue reading
Nov 17 On Wednesday’s NewsHour: Cholera in Haiti, Nuclear Treaty, Deficit Ideas HAITI'S CHOLERA OUTBREAK | Gwen Ifill speaks with Miami Herald Caribbean correspondent Jacqueline Charles in Port-au-Prince, who says that recent unrest related to a cholera outbreak in Haiti is hampering efforts to contain the spread of the epidemic. NEWS WRAP… Continue reading
Nov 17 Medicare Chief Defends Health Reform in Senate Grilling After months of waiting, Senate Republicans who had objected to Donald Berwick's appointment as Medicare chief got their first chance to question the new agency head Wednesday. Berwick defended the health care reform law, telling members of the Senate Finance… Continue reading
Nov 17 EU in Talks Over Ireland’s Finances; Germany Warns of Possible Terrorist Attack; House to Select Leadership (Photo by Aidan Crawley/Bloomberg via Getty Images) European leaders continued talks on how to tackle Ireland's troubled finances, paving the way for a possible bailout that could be worth as much as €100 billion. The crisis in Ireland's… Continue reading
Nov 17 Watch Frustration Boils Over in Haiti as Riots Disrupt Efforts to Contain Cholera The number of cholera deaths in Haiti climbed to 1,100 as riots broke out in two northern cities. Gwen Ifill speaks with Miami Herald Caribbean correspondent Jacqueline Charles in Port-au-Prince, who says that the unrest is hampering efforts to contain… Continue watching
Nov 16 New Medicare Center Aims to Test Ideas to Save Money, Improve Care Among its many provisions, the federal health care reform law allocates $10 billion over the next decade for Medicare and Medicaid to test new ways of paying doctors and hospitals, part of an effort to save money and improve patient… Continue reading
Nov 15 Watch Four Years After Health Reform, an Update on Care in Massachusetts Betty Ann Bowser begins a new series on health reform's effects with a report from Massachusetts, where a major health care reform law passed four years ago and served as a model for the federal law. Continue watching
Nov 15 Open Enrollment: What to Watch this Year For the tens of millions of Americans covered by Medicare, it's time to to begin poring over handbooks and pamphlets and considering health insurance options. Medicare open enrollment begins Monday and lasts until December 31, giving seniors their yearly chance… Continue reading
Nov 15 For Massachusetts Doctors, Two Sides to Reform Massachusetts passed a comprehensive health care reform law in 2006 that proved to be a model for the national law passed this year. Tonight on the NewsHour, health correspondent Betty Ann Bowser looks at how reform is working out in… Continue reading
Nov 11 Global Health Watch: Cholera in Haiti, TB Numbers Leveling Off By Talea Miller We are starting a new feature on the Rundown from our global health unit. Once a week, we'll be publishing a roundup of important health stories around the world you should know about. Here are our top five from… Continue reading