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
Nov 11 In Massachusetts, A Health Care Reform Preview Fall in Franklin County, Mass. (Flickr Creative Commons/banspy) A recent post-election poll confirmed the national split over health reform -- 49 percent of respondents wanted to see the law repealed or rolled back, while 40 percent wanted to… Continue reading
Nov 10 A Look at Cigarette Warnings Around the World By Lea Winerman The Food and Drug Administration unveiled 36 proposed warning labels for cigarette packages and ads on Wednesday. The new labels will be much bigger and more graphic than what U.S. consumers are used to seeing: They'll cover half of the… Continue reading
Nov 10 Watch Haiti Struggles to Rebuild From Earthquake, But Progress Is Slow Jon Snow of Independent Television News revisits some places he went after Haiti's deadly earthquake earlier this year to see how the recovery effort is going. Continue watching
Nov 09 Cholera Reaches Port-au-Prince, More Cases Expected By Talea Miller Cholera has officially spread to Port-au-Prince, where more than a million people are living in crowded tent camps and slums, prime conditions for spreading the highly contagious disease. Testing confirmed a 3-year-old boy living in one of those tent… Continue reading
Nov 09 Poll: In Election, Economic Concerns Trumped Views on Health Care Reform One week after the midterm elections, pollsters and pundits are continuing to mull over the factors that caused voters to give the GOP a sweep of the House. Now, a new poll released today by the Kaiser Family Foundation finds… Continue reading