Administration Prods States To Scrutinize Insurers' Rate Hikes
There's a battle brewing behind the scenes to keep health plans affordable for consumers. The Obama administration weighed in this week, sending letters to insurance regulators in every state and...
View ArticleCalls To Cut Off Planned Parenthood Are Nothing New
Updated at 6:52 p.m. ETRepublican calls to defund Planned Parenthood over its alleged handling of fetal tissue for research are louder than ever. But they are just the latest in a decades-long drive to...
View Article'Defunding' Planned Parenthood Is Easier Promised Than Done
The undercover videos purporting to show officials of Planned Parenthood bargaining over the sale of fetal tissue have made the promise to defund the organization one of the most popular refrains of...
View ArticleCongress Weighs Budget Cuts For Wide Range Of Health Programs
Federal funding for Planned Parenthood will clearly be a flashpoint when Congress returns this week from its summer break.But the fate of many other health programs, from the National Institutes of...
View ArticleObamacare Enrollment Triggers Drop In The Uninsured Rate
The percentage of Americans without health insurance dropped by nearly three percentage points between 2013 and 2014, according the U.S. Census Bureau, from 13.3 to 10.4 percent. Put another way, 8.8...
View ArticleMedical Students Crunch Big Data To Spot Health Trends
Medicine, meet Big Data.For generations, physicians have been trained in basic science and human anatomy to diagnose and treat the patient immediately in front of them.But now, massive stores of data...
View ArticleMedical Students See Their Mentors As Marauding Monsters
How stressful is medical training? So bad that in a class that encouraged medical students to express their feelings by drawing comics, nearly half of them depicted their supervisors as monsters,...
View ArticleKaiser Permanente's New Medical School Will Focus On Teamwork
Thursday's announcement by Kaiser Permanente that it plans to open its own medical school in Southern California in 2019 has attracted a lot of attention in the health care community.The nonprofit,...
View ArticleDebate Sharpens Over Single-Payer Health Care, But What Is It Exactly?
Health care has emerged as one of the flash points in the Democratic presidential race.Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has been a longtime supporter of a concept he calls "Medicare for All," a health...
View ArticleA Voter's Guide To The Health Law Chatter
Nearly six years after its enactment, the Affordable Care Act remains a hot issue in the presidential race — in both parties."Our health care is a horror show," said GOP candidate Donald Trump at the...
View ArticleLegal Foes In Texas Abortion Case Are Using New Playbooks
The fate of the controversial Texas abortion law is in the hands of the Supreme Court, and a decision isn't expected before June. But how this particular law reached the high court and how its...
View ArticleSupreme Court Takes Up Birth Control Access Yet Again
On the sixth anniversary of the enactment of the Affordable Care Act, the federal health law was back before a seemingly divided Supreme Court Wednesday.At stake this time is the controversial...
View ArticleSelling Health Insurance Across State Lines Sounds Good, But Is It?
Presidential candidates like to float solutions to long-standing problems. Making those solutions stick is another thing altogether.When it comes to health care, the enactment of the Affordable Care...
View ArticleAs Supreme Court Sends Back Birth Control Case, Both Sides Claim Victory
When it comes to the issue of religious rights versus no-cost contraception, the only thing the Supreme Court could agree on was not to decide.In an unsigned opinion issued Monday, the court sent a...
View ArticleThis Med School Teaches Health Policy Along With The Pills
Medical students cram a lot of basic science and medicine into their first two years of training. But most learn next to nothing about the intricacies of the health care system they will soon...
View ArticleFor Doctors-In-Training, A Dose Of Health Policy Helps The Medicine Go Down
Doctors-in-training learn a lot about the workings of the human body during medical school and residency. But many are taught next to nothing about the workings of the health care system. One...
View ArticleFallout From Supreme Court Ruling Against Texas Law's Abortion Restrictions
In a decision striking down key aspects of a Texas abortion law Monday, the Supreme Court cast doubt on similar laws in nearly two-dozen states.At issue in the court's decision were two specific...
View Article5 Things To Consider About The Supreme Court's Decision On Texas Abortion Law
The Supreme Court this week delivered its strongest affirmation of a women's right to abortion in years. By a margin of 5-3, it struck down two key provisions of a Texas law restricting the...
View ArticleObama Renews Call For A 'Public Option' In Federal Health Law
President Obama on Monday called on Congress to revisit the controversial idea of providing a government-run insurance plan as part of the offerings under the Affordable Care Act.What's been described...
View ArticleAnti-Abortion Groups Take New Aim With Diverse Strategies
Delegates at the Republican convention in Cleveland have approved the strongest anti-abortion platform in the party's history. But groups that oppose abortion — groups that lobbied for the strong...
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