Healthcare Reform
IFC plans to invest in Malaysia's Khazanah healthcare arm
KUALA LUMPUR - International Financial Corp (IFC) , a member of the World Bank Group, is planning to take part in the planned $1.5 billion listing of Malaysia's Integrated Healthcare Holdings (IHH) in a move to help validate IHH's emerging markets strategy, according to IFC's official website.
Analysis: HMO stocks may struggle over health claim costs
NEW YORK - Americans' low use of healthcare services has proved a boon to health insurers over the past two years, reducing medical claim costs and raising profits. The growing view on Wall Street is that those days are over.
Analysis: Drugmakers vulnerable if health law revoked
LOS ANGELES - Pharmaceutical companies, which were spared some of the more sweeping regulations in President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul, could come under more pressure if the U.S. Supreme Court strikes down part or all of the 2010 law.
DaVita looks to new healthcare model with $4.42 billion deal
- DaVita Inc , the biggest U.S. operator of dialysis clinics, sought to better align itself with government efforts to cut healthcare costs with a $4.42 billion deal to buy HealthCare Partners, an operator of physician practices.
Health secretary urges contraception compromise
WASHINGTON - The Obama administration's top health official on Friday took the debate over whether healthcare coverage should include contraceptives to the campus of a Catholic university that has been deeply divided over the administration's policy.
Fresenius says won't raise Rhoen-Klinikum offer
FRANKFURT - German healthcare group Fresenius said it will not raise its 22.50 euros per share offer for hospital operator Rhoen-Klinikum , using blunt language in its offer document to shareholders who may be hoping for a better deal.
U.S. sets deadline for proposals on state healthcare exchanges
WASHINGTON - The Obama administration forged ahead with healthcare reforms on Wednesday, announcing a November 16 deadline for state governments to submit proposals showing how they intend to operate health insurance exchanges in 2014.
Taxes lurk behind court test of Obama health law
WASHINGTON - While Supreme Court watchers focus on the controversial insurance requirement in President Barack Obama's healthcare law, lesser known is that the court's ruling next month will also decide the fate of billions of dollars in new taxes.
Factbox: Tax provisions in Obama's healthcare law
- President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul law contains a slew of new tax provisions, and their fate is unclear as the U.S. Supreme Court weighs the law's constitutionality.
India's Piramal Healthcare to buy U.S. firm to boost R&D
MUMBAI - Indian drugmaker Piramal Healthcare has agreed to buy a U.S.-based healthcare data provider for $635 million to boost research and development, the company said on Wednesday, a month after it acquired the new molecules division of Germany's Bayer's.
Facts and Background
- Details of final healthcare bill
- Bill would provide immediate benefits
- Healthcare overhaul has few final steps
- States and healthcare reform
- Healthcare winners and losers
- Milestones in Obama's quest for healthcare reform
- The impact on Medicare
- Glossary of terms in U.S. healthcare debate
- Health expenditures around the world
- Projected effects of passage of proposed healthcare reform provisions
- Graphic: Trends in healthcare costs
Top systems take centralized approach
An electronic system called an e-ICU lets critical-care physicians monitor patients from a central command center. Data shows it's saving lives. Full Article
HIV case exposes insurer policy
When Jerome Mitchell successfully sued his insurance company after it revoked his policy, he exposed a wrongdoing that could have repercussions for the entire health insurance industry. Full Article
Useful Links
- Health Care and Education Affordability Reconciliation Act of 2010 (pdf)
- Congressional Budget Office estimate
- House Ways and Means Committee
- House Energy and Commerce Committee
- Senate Finance Committee
- Senate Health, Education and Labor Committee
- Top 10 facts to know about healthcare reform
- How the House voted on the Senate healthcare bill
- Consumer's guide to health overhaul
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