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Hospitals play an enormous role in the health care system; they're a crucial part of the public health safety net and an important community resource. But they are expensive. Hospital costs make up the largest portion of the health spending in this country.
Would the public like to see the new health overhaul law repealed? A lot of pollsters have been asking that question lately. And they've been getting a lot of different answers.
When Democrats passed their health overhaul bill back in March, they hailed it as the biggest domestic achievement since Medicare. But seven months later, most of the noise about the new law on the campaign trail is coming from opponents
Come with me to the land of happy health reform. It is a place where Republicans and Democrats find common ground, a place where physicians, hospitals and health insurers sit together as partners, a place where criticism is respectful, not rancorous. It is the world of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs).
Health insurers can't have different rules for when individual policies for children with medical problems than for healthy kids are sold, the Department of Health and Human Services said today.
Planned Parenthood and other groups are launching a campaign to include prescription contraception as part of the preventive services required in the new health law.
People who live in long-term care are much more likely to be sent to the hospital, sometimes unnecessarily, which can harm patients and drive up Medicare costs.
Workers are likely to see increases in premiums, deductibles and co-payments, as well as changes in dependent coverage and wellness options.
The Department of Health and Human Services has granted approximately 30 waivers to employers, insurers and unions that will allow them to offer limited benefit, or "mini-med," health insurance plans.
From medical device makers to pharmacists to labor unions, a host of organizations want to ensure that accountable care organizations expand their business and influence.
Mark Rukavina of The Access Project and Neil Trautwein of the National Retail Federation discuss the Obama administration's relaxation of the health law's requirements for insurance plans for some employers.
Republicans think they have a winning issue in health care reform, calling for its repeal and slamming the new law as big government gone haywire-even before most of its provisions have taken effect. A new poll suggests it's not so clear-cut, and some Democrats seem to agree.
A number of interest groups, state officials and ordinary citizens are seeking to have the health care law struck down in federal court, and action is heating up this week.
It will take years to make the law's most important changes. But by the time they are in place, if all goes well, most Americans truly will be better off. The early stages are encouraging.
The agencies that oversee doctors and hospitals promised they will give unified guidance on how medical providers can form "accountable care organizations" without violating antitrust regulations. ACOs are a key part of the new health law.
When it comes to Medicare, where it is everybody's money and overpriced technologies are a significant factor undermining the senior citizen health care program's long-term financial viability, paying for products that don't deliver better is out.
The Obama administration has touted ACOs as a key way that the new health law will help providers work more closely together to lower health costs and improve patient care. But doctors and hospitals are worried about inadvertently violating antitrust and anti-fraud laws. Insurers fear the new doctor-hospital entities could boost health care prices. Industry and government officials are meeting Tuesday to deal with the concerns.
An Institute of Medicine report says nurses should take on a larger role in providing health care and calls for removal of government restrictions, which doctors have repeatedly opposed.
Insurance coverage of mental illness and addiction problems often is skimpier than for physical illness. But that is changing with the mental health parity law that took effect earlier this year and the new health overhaul.
As the November elections near, more Democrats appear to be campaigning on the health care law, touting a package of consumer protections that went into effect for plan years starting after Sept. 23.
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