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The month of June has been a tough one for Obamacare. With a variety of reports questioning a range of its provisions, one must wonder how many more months like this it can endure before it becomes a former law?
Robert Berenson, an Urban Institute fellow and former official at the Department of Health and Human Services, says a number of small Medicare initiatives are "low-hanging fruit" that could be pursued now in order to control the program's spending.
The Urban Institute's Robert Berenson talks about controlling Medicare costs and says it's not about rationing but about identifying places where the health care program is being abused.
Administration disappoints some patient advocates with new regulations setting up review process that consumers can seek when plans deny coverage.
The author is responding to recent coverage of the Blue Shield Of California announcement that it will cap its profits.
GAO finds most claims problems come from billing and eligibility issues, and beneficiaries often win when they appeal.
Experts thought simple steps, such as marking the surgical site and taking a timeout to confirm the details, would end the problem. But it turns out to be more complicated to change the culture of hospitals and doctors.
For health reform to truly take root, we should take our cue from the millions of low-income Californians who have the most at stake
Many hospitals are performing unusually large numbers of a type of CT scan experts say should be done sparingly.
KHN's Mary Agnes Carey talks to Sen. Rockefeller about his efforts to defend the Medicaid program.
W.Va. senator is working to raise defenses against efforts in the deficit reduction talks to reduce funding for the health care program that covers the poor and disabled.
Dr. Andy Bindman says educators at the University of California, San Francisco, are seeing a "pretty significant uptick" in applicants for primary care residencies.
The House of Representatives voted last month to repeal funding for the state health-insurance exchanges. The vote reflects a grassroots revolt. But a better approach might be to rally around the original tenets of the health exchange model.
There's been a lot of talk among state policymakers, industry stakeholders and the media about whether exchanges should be "active" or "passive" purchasers of health insurance.
Consumers, who often don't have a choice of ambulance services, can be left holding the bill when insurers refuse to pay entire cost.
We occupy a strange time in U.S. health policy. Over the past two years, assumptions and beliefs that bridged the liberal-conservative health policy divide have been blown apart.
Once upon a time, President Barack Obama and many others who championed his health care plan actually professed faith in the power of a functioning health care marketplace. That now seems like a distant memory.
Blue Shield of California's decision to cap profits at 2 percent was widely applauded, but other health insurers aren't likely to follow suit.
Could the health law be overturned on the basis of the requirement that nearly everyone obtain health insurance? Sure. But it would be one more sign that the courts are establishing new limits on federal power, rather than recognizing existing ones. That is not something conservative judges, in particular, say they like to do.
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