Sep 24 Watch A PBS Documentary Asks Why is U.S. Health Care So Expensive? Ray Suarez talks with Roger Weisberg, the director of the film, "Money and Medicine."… Continue watching
Sep 21 Would Medicare Competition Help Contain Costs? By Julie Appleby Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan at a town hall meeting in New Hampshire in August. Photo by Aram Boghosian for The Boston Globe via Getty Images. This story was written by Julie Appleby and Marilyn Werber Serafini of Kaiser… Continue reading
Sep 12 Watch Parsing the Numbers on Income, Poverty and Insurance from Latest U.S. Census Parsing the Numbers on Income, Poverty and Insurance from Latest U.S. Census… Continue watching
Sep 12 More Americans Insured: What's Behind the Numbers? By Jason Kane For the first time in four years, the number of Americans without health insurance dropped in 2011. According to data released Wednesday by the U.S. Census Bureau, about 48.6 million people were uninsured last year, down from… Continue reading
Sep 11 Watch Making Sen$e of Health Care: Competing Claims on Campaign Trail About Reform Making Sen$e of Health Care: Competing Claims on Campaign Trail About Reform… Continue watching
Sep 11 Health Premiums Rising More Slowly in Sluggish Economy, Study Finds By Julie Appleby Health insurance premiums rose 4 percent for family coverage this year, well below last year's increase and half the 8 percent average of the previous decade -- largely because people used less health care in an uncertain economy. Family… Continue reading
Sep 10 Watch From the Halls of Worrall Elementary School, News by Students with Asperger's News has an agenda at Worrall Elementary School in Broomall, Pa., where students with Asperger's syndrome 'go live' in their own broadcast each year. Their teachers say it's one of the best ways for students to learn to speak clearly,… Continue watching
Sep 05 Health Reform Plays Starring Role In First Night Of Convention By Kaiser Health News Several speakers cited the 2010 health law as a signature achievement of the Obama administration Tuesday night at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C. This video sample includes Stacey Lihn, the mother of a child with congenital heart disease,… Continue reading
Aug 31 Primer: Obama v. Ryan On Controlling Medicare Spending Editor's Note: GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney may have largely avoided the topic of health care when he accepted his party's nomination Thursday evening, but he previously supported many of the broad Medicare reform ideas of his running mate,… Continue reading
Aug 17 Primer: How Paul Ryan's Plan Would Change Medicaid By mcarey Republican vice presidential hopeful U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) speaks at a campaign event at Walsh University on Thursday in North Canton, Ohio. GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney's choice of House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., as his running… Continue reading