Jan 14 Health Reform Watch: After Tragedy, House Resumes Repeal Agenda After Shooting, House Resumes Repeal Agenda House Republicans said Thursday that the House will take up a vote to repeal the health care reform law next week, resuming their legislative agenda one week after it was delayed by… Continue reading
Jan 07 Health Reform Watch: Repeal Vote Set for Wednesday, CBO Says Repeal Would Raise Deficit Updated: Jan. 10, 11:50 a.m. Majority Leader Eric Cantor on Sunday postponed the House's legislative agenda, including a planned Wednesday vote to repeal health care reform, due to the shooting of Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. The NewsHour's Morning Line… Continue reading
Jan 05 Health Care Reform in 2011: What to Watch _pap_embeddable('news01s46d3q101c',482,304,{ pap_usecache:true }); Republicans officially take control of the House today, and a vote to repeal the health care reform law is at the top of their agenda. But with President Obama in the White House… Continue reading
Jan 03 Government Regulation Prompts New Look at ‘Death Panel’ Debate Updated Jan. 5, 2011, 5:33 p.m. White House officials say that the Obama administration will the remove controversial references to end-of-life counseling during annual Medicare check-ups from a new Medicare regulation, the New York Times reported Tuesday. The move… Continue reading
Dec 31 Health Reform Watch: The Return of the End-of-Life Care Debate On the eve of 2011, the week started with the return of a phrase that you might not have thought about since 2009 -- "death panels." The New York Times reported over the weekend that, in a little-noticed government… Continue reading
Dec 28 In California, Republicans and Democrats Work to Implement Health Care Reform While some parts of the nation are figuring out how to block national health care reform or repeal the law, California has plunged headfirst into making it work. The Republican governor and the Democratic legislature are cooperating to smooth the… Continue reading
Dec 27 Questions Over Health Care Reform as Wisconsin Moves From Blue to Red In Wisconsin, the Republican party brought home landslide victories in November -- the state went from "a sea of blue to a sea of red," as the Racine Journal-Times described it, as Republicans won the governorship and control of… Continue reading
Dec 24 Health Reform Watch: Insurer Rate Review; Debate Over ‘Lie of the Year’ New Scrutiny for Insurers The big news of the week was rate review: Beginning next year, insurers who want to raise their rates more than 10 percent will face new government scrutiny, according to regulations the Obama administration released this… Continue reading
Dec 21 New Rules Will Increase Scrutiny of Health Insurance Premium Hikes Beginning next year, health insurers who want to raise their rates by more than 10 percent will face strict new requirements to explain and make public the price increases, according to a regulation released by the Obama administration Tuesday. The… Continue reading
Dec 20 States Move to Implement Health Care Reform as Fight Continues in Courthouses, Congress In courthouses and on Capitol Hill, the battle over health care reform is still being fought. Behind the scenes, though, in states all over the country, officials are quietly moving ahead to implement some parts of the law. Last… Continue reading