Mar 30 Watch Shields, Brooks on Supreme Court ‘High Tension,’ Health Reform’s Future Shields, Brooks on Supreme Court 'High Tension,' Health Reform's Future… Continue watching
Feb 16 Watch Pelosi Outlines Democrats’ Campaign Vision House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi told Judy Woodruff in an interview Thursday that the deal forged on Capitol Hill to extend a payroll tax cut and continue unemployment insurance benefits will create jobs and help the economy. Pelosi also discussed… Continue watching
Feb 10 Watch Sebelius Explains White House’s Contraception Compromise In an abrupt shift in policy Friday, President Obama backtracked some, announcing that religious employers would not be required to offer free birth control to employees after all. Instead the burden would be on insurers. Ray Suarez and Secretary of… Continue watching
Jan 09 Watch What’s Slowing Down Americans’ Health Care Spending? A new government report shows that the rise in health care spending slowed for the second consecutive year. Meanwhile, health insurance premiums continue to climb as workers pay an ever-growing share of the cost. Ray Suarez discusses what's behind these… Continue watching
Sep 27 Watch What’s Behind 9% Jump in Employer-Paid Health Insurance Premiums? A survey released Tuesday by The Kaiser Family Foundation reported that annual health insurance premiums for a family of four climbed $15,000 this year. Judy Woodruff discusses what's causing health insurance costs to rise with Susan Dentzer of Health Affairs. Continue watching
Aug 02 Watch Utah’s Health Insurance Experiment Built Around Small Businesses Under the federal health care reform law, all states will be required to set up a health insurance exchange starting in 2014. Betty Ann Bowser reports on one state that is ahead of the game, and how the new system… Continue watching
Aug 02 Watch Health Insurance Exchange 101 Julie Appleby of Kaiser Health News talks with Hari Sreenivasan. Continue watching
Jul 08 Jobs: Dreary Data, a Desperate Viewer, a Pessimistic Professor By Paul Solman Goodness! U-7, our own measure of under-and unemployment, shot up to 18.6 percent Friday morning, a rise that gets us back near the number when we first inaugurated the Solman Scale last December. Friday morning's job numbers:… Continue reading
Dec 28 Watch California Forges Ahead Implementing Health Reform Changes Spencer Michels looks at how the nation's most populous state is moving ahead on the new federal health care law. Continue watching
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