Policy and Legislation
President Barack Obama's address on the future of the nation's fiscal budget had a strong healthcare focus. This session tweet recaps the speech and Obama's plan to reduce the deficit by $4 trillion over 12 years.
The House is set to vote Wednesday on a bill that would deny more than $15 billion for the Department of Health and Human Services to administer the Prevention and Public Health Fund, which was created in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act last year.
Massachusetts’ 5 year old health reform law is the subject of fierce contention on the national stage, since it formed the foundation for the much-debated Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).
The Department of Health and Human Services has announced a new program, developed under the Affordable Care Act, that's aimed at eliminating medical errors and reducing healthcare costs on a national scale.
Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) recently introduced a bill that they say would curtail fraud, but opponents say its value is dubious.
In Nevada, state officials are investigating whether payments to a group of cardiologists from a heart device company were legitimate consulting fees or an inducement to the doctors to use the company’s products.
Studies have shown that many Baby Boomers don't have enough in savings to sustain them at the level of living they expect or to withstand long-term illness or health catastrophes. The picture hasn't changed much for the next generation - those who are 45 now - according to a study by the Urban Institute and the Kaiser Family Foundation.
The Department of Health and Human Services plans to help reduce health disparities among ethnic and racial minorities.
A year after the passage of health care reform, fewer than half of Americans support it, a similar percentage believe that it has already been found unconstitutional or soon will be, health care costs are continuing to rise far faster than the CPI, and the Republican Party has seized on the issue as a sure election winner.
Healthcare providers in South Carolina will face their first payment cut in three years after Gov. Nikki Haley signed a bill repealing a 2008 proviso in state law that prevented the Department of Health and Human Services from lowering Medicaid reimbursement rates.