Apr 01 Watch In Search of Safety Net, Freelancers Form Union A former labor lawyer has organized freelancers into a union that offers affordable health insurance and other benefits. Spencer Michels continues his reporting on people hard hit by the economic downturn. Continue watching
Feb 11 Watch Number of Newly Uninsured Americans Rises Along With Jobless Rate After more than 2 million American workers were laid off in the past three months, the numbers who have lost their health insurance and applied for Medicaid have also risen rapidly. Betty Ann Bowser speaks with Connecticut residents struggling to… Continue watching
Feb 04 Watch Other News: Senate Debates Stimulus, Obama Signs Child Health Care Bill The debate over the stimulus bill continued in the Senate and President Obama signed legislation to increase health care spending for low-income children. Jim Lehrer reports on this and other news of the day. Continue watching
Jan 30 Senate Passes SCHIP Bill in Party-line Vote By Admin, PBS News Hour The Senate on Thursday approved legislation to provide health insurance coverage to about 4 million uninsured children. The measure passed 66-32 in a vote split mostly along party lines. Continue reading
Jan 08 Watch Daschle Pledges Bipartisan Health Care Reform Effort During a Senate confirmation hearing Thursday, Health and Human Services nominee Tom Daschle pledged to lead a bipartisan health care reform effort, based on evidence and not ideology. Experts discuss the challenges he will face if confirmed. Continue watching
Jan 07 Watch As Costs Rise, Businesses Struggle to Provide Worker Health Insurance In the third and final in a series on health care challenges facing the new administration, Betty Ann Bowser reports on small businesses' struggle to keep up with the rising cost of insuring their employees. Continue watching
Jan 06 Watch States Faces Shortages of Primary Care Doctors While universal healthcare legislation in Massachusetts means more people today are insured, the new demand for primary care doctors outstrips the supply. Educational loans, low wages and fights with insurance companies are turning growing numbers of students away from the… Continue watching
Dec 11 Watch Daschle Tapped for Dual Role to Reform Health Care President-elect Barack Obama named Tom Daschle Thursday to head the Department of Health and Human Services and direct his administration's sweeping health care initiatives. Susan Denzter discusses the selection. Continue watching
Sep 26 Congress Passes Mental Health Parity Legislation By PBS News Hour After slogging through Congress for nearly a decade, legislation on the fair treatment of mental health conditions reached a critical milestone this week when it cleared both houses of Congress. Continue reading
Aug 26 Health Insurance Rates Rise, Poverty Unchanged in 2007 By PBS News Hour The number of people without health insurance in the United States fell last year for the first time since the beginning of the Bush administration, according to a report released by the Census Bureau Tuesday on poverty, income and health… Continue reading