Red states, too, get health care nod from Obama
Injecting a rare shot of bipartisanship in the nation's contentious health care overhaul, the Obama administration Thursday cleared four Republican-led states to build their own consumer-friendly...
View ArticleIdaho on track to run health insurance marketplace in 2014, Obama...
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Thursday that Idaho has made significant progress in setting up its own health insurance exchange for many residents and small businesses to...
View ArticleUnusual respite from surging health care costs
Americans kept health care spending in check for three years in a row, the government reported Monday, an unusual respite that could linger if the economy stays soft or fade like a mirage if job growth...
View ArticleNew website part of push for uninsured to get coverage
A new federal website will help the uninsured learn how to buy health care insurance.read more
View ArticleHospitals super-sizing equipment for obese patients
Health-care facilities are making accommodations to take care of their heaviest patients.read more
View ArticleObama offers faith groups new birth control rule
The Obama administration on Friday proposed a work-around for religious nonprofits that object to providing health insurance that covers birth control.
View ArticleOhio to seek expansion of Medicaid
A Republican governor has decided that the federal government's plan for expanding Medicaid is in his state's best interests. Medicaid coverage will be expanded to nearly 600,000 low-income Ohioans now...
View ArticleMichigan GOP governor proposes Medicaid expansion
Mich. governor Rick Snyder, opposing his own party, welcomes an "Obamacare" option... A day before he delivers his budget message to the state Legislature, Gov. Rick Snyder said Wednesday he will...
View ArticleBishops Reject White House Proposal on Contraceptive Coverage
Roman Catholic bishops said the latest plan from the Obama administration did not provide safeguards for hospitals, colleges and charities that objected to coverage.
View ArticleGovt: $4.2B recovered in probing health care fraud
The government says it recovered almost $8 for each dollar it spent investigating health care fraud over the past three years, including a record $4.2 billion last year.
View ArticleFlorida Reverses, Taking Health Law’s Medicaid Expansion
Gov. Rick Scott of Florida, a leading Republican critic of President Obama’s health care law, said he now supported a three-year expansion of Medicaid to cover more poor people.
View ArticleRed state Medicaid expansion no shock
Florida governor Rick Scott created a stir this week when he said he’d expand Medicaid as requested by the Obama administration. But health policy experts say it's hard for any governor to say no to...
View ArticleStudy: Annual cost of diabetes reaches $245B
The growing toll of diabetes cost the nation a record high $245 billion in 2012, a 41% increase from $174 billion in 2007, according to new research released today. The study Economic Costs of Diabetes...
View ArticleFla. Senate panel rejects Medicaid expansion
A Florida Senate committee voted Monday against expanding Medicaid to roughly 1 million of the state's poorest under the federal health overhaul and instead proposed a voucher plan that would require...
View ArticleAP Exclusive: Applying for health care not easy
Applying for benefits under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul could be as daunting as doing your taxes....read more
View ArticleStudy: Health overhaul to raise claims cost 32%
Medical claims costs — the biggest driver of health insurance premiums — will jump an average 32% for Americans' individual policies under the Affordable Care Act health care law, according to a study...
View ArticleTenn. gov. won't expand Medicaid to cover uninsured
Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam announced Wednesday that he won't pursue expanding the state's Medicaid program to help cover the uninsured as part of the federal Affordable Care Act.read more
View ArticleHospitals Profit From Surgical Errors, Study Finds
Since insurers pay more for patients with surgical complications, some hospitals could actually lose money by improving care, researchers said Tuesday.read more
View ArticleAnalysis: Ahead of reform, medical care slowdown hits companies
As the clock ticks down to the start of a U.S. healthcare overhaul, companies from device makers to hospital chains have been surprised to see Americans make even fewer trips to the doctor's...
View ArticleFallout for states rejecting Medicaid expansion
Rejecting the Medicaid expansion in the federal health care law could have unexpected consequences for states where Republican lawmakers remain steadfastly opposed to what they scorn as...
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