Policy and Legislation
During the 2010 election Republicans promised to “Repeal and Replace” the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Having gained a majority in the House of Representatives they quickly passed a bill to do just that (joined by three Democrats). Having failed to gain a majority in the Senate the repeal process is all but over.
Provisions under the Affordable Care Act that specify administrative costs for health plans don't take into account the cost of fraud prevention programs that health plans already have in place, according to a new brief released by America's Health Insurance Plans.
Research on post-traumatic stress disorder cost the government $24.5 million in 2009, up from the $9.9 million spent in 2005, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office.
Ten months after the Affordable Care Act became a law and almost three months after a mid-term election produced a historic number of new Republican lawmakers, state health insurance commissioners find themselves in a precarious position.
Americans remain divided over the Affordable Care Act, while those who oppose it don't want to see it defunded, according to a new survey conducted by Kaiser Family Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) joined 21 other Democratic leaders in filing a legal brief in a Michigan court defending the constitutionality of the right of Congress to require every American to buy health insurance.
HealthGrades has identified the top 50 cities in the nation for hospital care, with West Palm Beach, Fla., coming in at the top of the list.
The American Medical Association and 100 medical and physician organizations say the bi-partisan HEALTH Act, submitted to Congress earlier this week, could be exactly what the doctor ordered for solving medical liability issues.
President Barack Obama mentioned healthcare in his State of the Union speech Tuesday night, but it wasn't at the top of the list.
The focus of the national media and sites such as this one has been on the promise of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) to transform the American healthcare delivery system in a way that the country can "bend the cost curve" of healthcare. I don't want to be the one to rain on anyone's parade, but the test of that premise is yet to come and the devil, as they say, is in the details.