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Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has announced $42.5 million in funding to state, tribal, local and territorial health departments for 94 projects to improve public health.

The percentage of the nation's population without health insurance increased to 16.7 percent in 2009 from 15.4 percent in 2008, according to the latest data released Thursday by the Census Bureau.

Congressman Phil Gingrey (R-Ga.), co-chairman of the GOP Doctors Caucus, has called for a Congressional hearing on healthcare reform, with hopes of repealing it.

Consumers surveyed in a new study said they hope their health insurance companies will help them understand healthcare reform and how it will impact their lives.

The administrator for the Centers of Medicare & Medicaid Services urged health plans Monday to join the government and other stakeholders in helping to overhaul the American healthcare system.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has once again come down on health insurers, saying she has "zero tolerance" for plans that spread misinformation and unjustifiably hike premiums.

Healthcare spending is projected to reach nearly $4.6 trillion by 2019, growing at an average annual rate of 6.3 percent over the next decade, according to economists at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Even in states with laws that require damage caps in malpractice suits, physicians are concerned about being sued, according to a new study.

A study in the September issue of Health Affairs finds the cost of malpractice at approximately $55.6 billion a year, or 2.4 percent of annual healthcare spending.

Workers on average are paying nearly $4,000 this year for family health coverage - an increase of 14 percent, or $482, over last year, according to a new study.