Policy and Legislation
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) gave Republicans a great big target to shoot at, and they’ve worked up so much energy attacking so-called ObamaCare that they’ve dug themselves into a great big hole on health care. It may well be enough to keep them from control of the White House and maybe the Hill, too if things keep going the way they’re going.
Employers can expect to see an 8.5 percent increase in healthcare costs in 2012, a slight increase from the 8 percent increase expected this year, according to a new report from PricewaterhouseCoopers' Health Research Institute.
As the Connecticut Legislature debates a bill requiring private businesses to provide paid sick days to its workers, the Institute for Women's Policy Research has issued a report saying paid sick days will save the state - and the healthcare system - money.
The Medicare Trustees Report released Friday has forecasted that Medicare's Hospital Insurance Fund is projected to run out of money in 2024, five years earlier than the trustees projected last year in their annual report.
In just a few days, Vermont's Governor Peter Shumlin will sign into law what the media is calling "single payer health care reform." But is it?
The American Hospital Association says start-up and management costs for an accountable care organization are considerably higher than estimated by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in its proposed rule.
The Department of Health and Human Services has made available more than $100 million in funding for up to 75 community transformation grants. HHS officials said the grants, funded by the Affordable Care Act, are aimed at helping communities reduce chronic diseases.
Mitt Romney has outlined his new health plan. He outlined five key steps in an op-ed in USAToday. It looks to me like his health care outline is more intended to make conservative Republicans happy then to really propose ways to reform America’s health care system.
An analysis of Medicare by the Department of Health and Human Services shows changes implemented under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will save more than $120 billion over the next five years.
WakeMed Health and Hospitals of Raleigh, N.C., has submitted an unsolicited offer to purchase rival Rex Healthcare from the UNC Health Care system for $750 million.