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The president may not always highlight the health overhaul before the public, but it's a strong talking point at his fundraising events. Meanwhile in the debate Tuesday, former Gov. Mitt Romney, while lamenting scheduled Pentagon cuts, said they are about the same as what the health law will cost.
In most cases, those higher costs don't translate into better outcomes, says report comparing 34 nations.
A selection of health policy stories from California, Florida, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Maryland and Colorado.
HHS has recommended free contraceptive services be included in health plans but Republicans are seeking to limit that.
The state regulators approved a resolution asking for a change in the law to exempt insurance brokers' fees from an insurance company's administrative costs.
A selection of health policy opinions and editorials from around the nation.
The pharmaceutical giant will pay a $321 million criminal fine and a $628 million civil settlement.
The Supreme Court justice's role in her old job at the White House is under examination by the House Judiciary Committee.
Preventing a scheduled cut in reimbursements to physicians is estimated to cost $20 billion next year, but Congress is expected to find at least a short-term fix before the end of the year.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations include an examination of changes in Medicare that the Democrats have endorses and a Kansas abortion case.
In Medicare news, the drug maker Dendreon says federal officials have said they will pay doctors to administer the drug. Also, policymakers are studying Medigap to see if curbs on those policies could help cut Medicare costs.
Politico looks at the effect of the economic downturn on consumers use of health care services and the Los Angeles Times finds more employers are offering the high-deductible plans.
The WHO "said on Monday it has received just one application for the U.N. health agency's top post," from China, which submitted Margaret Chan, the current WHO director-general and former Hong Kong health chief, Agence France-Presse reports. "An executive board meeting in Geneva between January 16 and 23 will decide whether to put the name forward to the World Health Assembly in May, which would make the final decision regarding the appointment," the news agency writes (11/21).
Karen Davis, who has run the health care research foundation The Commonwealth Fund since 1995, will step down at the end of 2012.
To prevent automatic cuts to the defense budget, Mitt Romney calls for reducing federal payments to states for Medicaid, while Newt Gingrich would "transform" Medicaid to help fund partial Social Security privatization.
News outlets report on innovations to reduce medical errors and speed up resolution of medical malpractice lawsuits.
The world reached a population milestone in October, but "[i]n the many discussions that have sprung up around the seven billion benchmark -- all of them important and illuminating -- I don't hear enough about our world's most vulnerable: our youth," Jill Sheffield, founder and president of Women Deliver, writes in this Huffington Post opinion piece. "Nearly half of the world's seven billion inhabitants is under the age of 25," she notes, adding "when it comes to sexual and reproductive health, young women and girls around the world face tremendous challenges -- which demand tremendous solutions."
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