Jun 22 What’s at Stake for Your Insurance as Supreme Court Weighs Health Reform? By Julie Appleby The Supreme Court is expected to hand down its ruling on the health care reform law some time next week. The Supreme Court's decision to uphold or strike down the health law could bolster -- or undo -- the most… Continue reading
Jun 21 What’s at Stake for Medicaid as Supreme Court Weighs Health Reform? By Phil Galewitz Medical assistant Ann Valdez gives Christian Casteneda, 12, a physical at a community health center in Aurora, Colo. The clinic has received some 6,000 more Medicaid eligable patients since the health care reform law was passed in 2010. Photo by… Continue reading
Jun 20 What’s at Stake for Seniors as Supreme Court Weighs Health Reform? Registered nurse Susan Eager, discusses medication with patient Helen Ricci, 96, during a house call in Denver, Colorado. Photo by John Moore/Getty Images. If the Supreme Court strikes down the health law, 49 million Medicare beneficiaries could lose a variety… Continue reading
Jun 19 What’s at Stake for Women as Supreme Court Weighs Health Reform? By Julie Appleby Demonstrators for and against the health care reform law march outside the U.S. Supreme Court building on the morning of one of the hearings in March. A provision in the 2010 health care law requiring contraceptive coverage for women without… Continue reading
Jun 18 What’s at Stake for Patients as Supreme Court Weighs Health Reform? By Jordan Rau Since the health care law passed two years ago, government, states, insurers, doctors and hospitals have been building a complex scaffolding to extend insurance to 30 million more Americans. A U.S. Supreme Court decision expected later this month could eliminate… Continue reading
Jun 15 A Consumer’s Guide to the Health Care Reform Law By mcarey A Supreme Court decision is expected within the next two weeks on challenges to the 2010 federal health law. Parts of the law have already been implemented but the bulk of it won't take effect until 2014. Here's a look… Continue reading
Jun 14 Watch 6:42 ‘We Were Here’ Revisits San Francisco’s AIDS Epidemic of Early ’80s 'We Were Here' Revisits San Francisco's AIDS Epidemic of Early '80s… Continue watching
Jun 13 Report: Health Spending Will Climb To Nearly One-Fifth Of GDP By ctorres National health spending will account for nearly one-fifth of the U.S. economy in 2021, according to updated estimates from the federal government. Actuaries from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reported their annual projections in the journal Health Affairs… Continue reading
Jun 11 Watch ‘Good for Health’: Some Reforms Will Stay Regardless of Supreme Court Decision 'Good for Health': Some Reforms Will Stay Regardless of Supreme Court Decision… Continue watching
Jun 08 Health Care Reform: The Comic Book By Betty Ann Bowser // When you think about what makes for good material for comic books and graphic novels, the much-debated and heavily-contested federal health reform law is not necessarily the subject matter you would think of. And Jonathan Gruber, an economist and… Continue reading