Administration: Hundreds Of Thousands Already Enrolled In Obamacare
HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell made the announcement Wednesday.
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HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell made the announcement Wednesday.
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The consultant, who helped advise the White House on the health care law, will appear before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform next month.
Patient groups laud new HHS rules barring insurers from discriminating against those with expensive health problems, such as AIDS, but want enforcement. Advocates for the poor draw attention to the struggle in many states to re-enroll adults and children in Medicaid.
The Food And Drug Administration's calorie disclosure rules will affect many restaurants and other businesses.
Also in health insurance enrollment news, the Wall Street Journal reports on problems with insurers' lists of doctors.
Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., said Democrats hurt themselves in 2009 and 2010 by putting so much effort on reforming health care, rather than on policies that would have helped a broader swath of the middle class.
Many of the millions of people here illegally who qualify for protection under the president's executive order would likely be eligible to receive Social Security, Medicare and a wide array of other federal benefits because they pay payroll taxes, says a White House official.
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KQED's Lisa Aliferis finds price differences within the same state, based on facility and insurance status. In other consumer news, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force says that Vitamin D tests may not be necessary, even though they are growing in popularity.
The report calls for more thorough training for doctors and improved record-keeping.
The prices of about half of generic medicines went up since last summer, and about 10 percent of them more than doubled in cost in that time, with some common medicines rising by more than 500 percent, The New York Times reports.
The device, called a morcellator, should no longer be used in the "vast majority" of women, the FDA says, because it can spread cancerous tissue.
Sharon Helman had been on administrative leave after reports that records were falsified to hide long wait lists for treatment.
The two companies provided consumers misleading information about the number of doctors with whom they had contracts. News outlets also look at marketplace issues in Massachusetts, Colorado and Minnesota.
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