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., Politics 17 May 2013

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.

16 May 2013

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."

Politics, Health 16 May 2013

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.

Politics, U.S. 16 May 2013

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.

16 May 2013

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.

Politics, Health 15 May 2013

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.

14 May 2013

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.

13 May 2013

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.

13 May 2013
  Banner Gateway Hospital, Gilbert, Arizona, is seen in this undated photo. The hospital’s parent, Phoenix-based Banner Health, is one of the top 10 health systems in a new study conducted by Thomson Reuters.  Credit: Reuters/Banner Gateway Hospital

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 

    A huge poster with a red ribbon symbolizing the fight against AIDS is displayed on the facade of the Palace of Culture ahead of World AIDS Day in Warsaw November 27, 2009. REUTERS/Kacper Pempe

    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