Policy and Legislation

Congress' healthcare reform debate has highlighted how American governance is broken and the difficulty of addressing our national problems.

Peter Harbage explains the differences between the individual market and employee-sponsored health insurance in the context of health insurance reform in this video from the Center for American Progress' YouTube channel.

A report issued by the Department of Health and Human Services indicates the current health insurance system "leaves millions behind" due to coverage denial practices.

In this video from the Center for American Progress' YouTube channel, Peter Harbage explains how small businesses are impacted by high healthcare costs.

For the first time, Consumer Reports will provide patient satisfaction ratings for more than 3,400 hospitals across the United States.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced late last week that acute care hospitals will receive an inflation update in their payment rates of 2.1 percent in fiscal year 2010.

About 45,000 office-based physicians may be eligible for up to $63,750 over six years to improve and maintain their health information technology systems because of their participation in Medicaid, according to a new study.

Investment in community-based health centers could save states millions of dollars a year, according to a study conducted by The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services.

There have been myriad articles of late on the costs of healthcare and reform, yet fewer address the costs of quality. In this guest post, Dr. Seymour Handler, pathologist, provides his insight on cost inflation, “the most important problem facing healthcare in the United States.”

A new report from the nonprofit California HealthCare Foundation focuses on the concept of a national health insurance exchange and examines whether California's experience can inform the national debate.