Healthcare Reform
Healthcare workers set to strike California public hospitals
SAN FRANCISCO - Nearly 13,000 healthcare employees at five University of California medical centers plan to strike on Tuesday in a move that threatens to back up emergency rooms and already has forced the postponement of elective surgeries.
Two states say 2014 Obamacare insurance costs on low side
- In a boost for President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law, two states in the Northwest said on Friday that insurance companies submitted applications to sell policies on the states' health insurance exchanges at rates well below what some insurance executives had predicted.
U.S. House lawmakers in last-ditch bid to save immigration bill
WASHINGTON - Lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives trying to write an immigration bill met on Thursday in a last-ditch attempt to resolve their differences over a temporary worker program and healthcare benefits for illegal immigrants.
U.S. House votes to repeal Obamacare in 37th symbolic act
WASHINGTON - The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives voted to repeal President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law on Thursday in a symbolic move aimed as much at healing internal Republican rifts as demonstrating dogged party opposition to "Obamacare."
U.S. House lawmakers in last-ditch bid to save immigration bill
WASHINGTON - Lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives trying to write an immigration bill met on Thursday in a last-ditch attempt to resolve their differences over a temporary worker program and healthcare benefits for illegal immigrants.
Analysis: Consumer stocks shine in emerging market profit gloom
LONDON - A broad collapse of company profits in the developing world shows no sign of abating, forcing investors to tilt portfolios towards sectors such as healthcare or consumer goods where margins are more robust.
US Senate confirms Tavenner as Medicare/Medicaid chief
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Senate on Wednesday confirmed Marilyn Tavenner, a former nurse and hospital company executive, as the first full-fledged administrator for the Medicare and Medicaid healthcare programs since 2006.
Two million fewer U.S. uninsured to gain health coverage: Congressional researchers
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama's landmark healthcare reform law will extend coverage to 2 million fewer uninsured Americans than expected only a few months ago, congressional researchers said on Tuesday.
Emails show lobbyists, not insiders, underpinned U.S. market-moving report
WASHINGTON - The researcher whose report prompted a spike in health stocks last month appears to have relied on lobbyists rather than U.S. government insiders who had direct knowledge of a pending healthcare decision, according to emails reviewed by Reuters.
Senator says Sebelius should stop healthcare fundraising
WASHINGTON - An Obama administration effort to raise private donations to help implement President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law came under fire on Monday from congressional Republicans who claim the action could violate the law.
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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