CDC: About Half Of Adults In U.S. Get Preventive Care
This finding, which is part of a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study, is designed to serve as a baseline as prevention-related health law provisions are implemented.
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This finding, which is part of a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study, is designed to serve as a baseline as prevention-related health law provisions are implemented.
A coalition of media organizations has combined forces with the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press to ask the Supreme Court to allow live audio and video coverage of the health law decision announcement.
The changes include eliminating some popular programs, raising some co-pays and creating a system for hospital exemptions from taxes.
The partnerships seek to both improve quality and reduce costs.
News outlets report on health policy developments in California, Georgia, Iowa, Massachusetts, Michigan and Virginia.
A selection of editorials and opinions on health care policy from around the country.
Partisan wrangling over the health law, as well as funding of HHS, is continuing on Capitol Hill.
Studies this week come from the Center for Health Care Strategies, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Health Affairs, the Rand Corp., the State Health Access Data Assistance Center and other news outlets.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including the latest on how the White House and congressional lawmakers are bracing for the Supreme Court's health law decision.
Earlier this week hree large health insurance companies announced they would allow some of the health law's more popular consumer provisions to go forward no matter what the court's decision. In response, a public interest group charged the insurers with conducting a PR offensive to signal to the high court.
Colorado's governor says the state will continue to build its insurance exchange and to advance other elements of the health law regardless of the Supreme Court's ruling. Meanwhile, Alabama's attorney general predicts the court will strike down the law.
A new study detailed findings regarding physicians' patterns of unprofessional behavior. Separate research investigated doctors' willingness to use limited Spanish to communicate with patients.
President Obama and Mitt Romney are campaigning in Ohio today and it's likely Romney will continue his attacks on the health law. Meanwhile, Democrats wonder how they can make political gains by better explaining the law.
This week's selections include articles from PBS NewsHour, The New York Times, New York Times Magazine and American Medical News.
A selection of editorials and opinions on health care policy from around the country.
A selection of state Medicaid news from California, Missouri, Illinois and Minnesota.
CQ HealthBeat interviews the head of the government's IT effort while other news coverage focuses on a new report detailing the promise of electronic health monitoring.
In advance of the upcoming general election, Democrats and Republicans are trading barbs on the reasons -- each accusing each other of playing politics -- for delaying economic legislation and how the health care law has affected jobs in America.
The Michigan bill would tighten regulation of abortion clinics and providers while making it a crime to coerce women into having an abortion. In Missouri, a union asks the governor to veto legislation that would allow employers to opt out of providing abortion or contraception health insurance coverage.
A selection of health policy news from California, Colorado, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Kansas and Oregon.
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