NPR reports that some evangelical Christian groups around America are driving down health care costs in their own way, by helping each other pay medical bills instead of paying premiums.
(Daily Report) Mar 12
News reports raise alarm about fraud and caution consumers on short-term policies.
(Daily Report) Mar 12
A hospital in Lousville, Kentucky is eliminating 500 jobs this month. The layoffs represent the area's first large-scale health system cuts since the recession began.
(Daily Report) Mar 11
Medill Reports presents a story on community health centers in Chicago that are filling the access gaps for people too sick to get health care coverage or too poor to afford other care.
(Daily Report) Mar 10
The U.S. Senate is set to vote Wednesday on a jobs bill that would extend the COBRA subsidy program and Medicaid funding for states and prevent the pending 21% Medicare reimbursement cut for doctors.
(Daily Report) Mar 10
Many states are having to make budgetary decisions about their public health care systems even as federal legislation and funding continues to be tied up in Congress.
(Daily Report) Mar 08
CNN's Political Ticker blog fact checks a statement made by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on the NBC's "Meet the Press" Sunday.
(Daily Report) Mar 08
Under the health bills being debated in Congress, young adults would be required to buy insurance - but they could buy low-cost "catastrophic" plans, requiring high deductibles. That's igniting a fierce debate whether young adults — sometimes known as the "young invincibles" — would benefit from such plans.
(Story) Mar 08
Long excluded by Medicaid programs in most states, millions of low-income, childless adults could qualify for coverage under Democratic health overhaul proposals.
(Story) Mar 08
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rules that California plan to cut payments to hospitals and pharmacies by 5 percent and in-home workers wages by 20 percent did not comply with the federal Medicaid Act.
(Daily Report) Mar 04