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Major insurers plan to discontinue children-only health plans rather than issue coverage under such plans for children with preexisting conditions, something they would have to do beginning Sept. 23 as part of the health law.
The Contra Costa Times reports that "[s]ix months after passage of the federal health reform law, major provisions will kick in that supporters say will make it easier for Americans to get and keep health insurance."
Lawsuits and congressional Republicans have challenged the health law, but pundits wonder what they might replace it with. Meanwhile, Democrats plan to highlight more changes that go into effect this week.
States address a range of health care policy issues.
WBUR (Boston, Mass.) reports that the two main "safety net" hospitals in Massachusetts are facing the prospect of a financial crisis without federal assistance to close their books.
The National Science Foundation/U.S. News & World Report ask the question: "Airlines protect themselves from passenger 'no-shows' by overbooking. Could the same approach-overbooking patients-work in a doctor's office or hospital?"
The Associated Press reports that obese women incur higher costs, both to their health and wallets, than men, according to a new study by researchers at George Washington University.
Here's an array of health overhaul issues that are heating up around the country.
Medicare advocates are expressing concern about how the relief for the program's doughnut hole will play out for beneficiaries.
A subsidiary of American International Group - known as AIG - has been fined $100,000 by Minnesota regulators for selling bogus health policies and is now ordered to repay its customers.
Insurer was keeping the money in a reserve fund to make payments beyond 2014. But regulators pointed out that new health law will change how policies are sold in 2014.
More physicians are using health IT, but challenges remain.
Mediators are proving valuable in helping families make decisions about end-of-life care, medical treatments and a range of other difficult topics.
The New York Times reports that Republicans are hopeful that they can pick up enough seats in November's midterm elections to chip away at President Barack Obama and Democrats' health law.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports about major insurers' plans to stop offering child-only health policies in advance of new rules.
The Obama "administration's bold drive to improve the U.S.'s notoriously bureaucratic and dysfunctional foreign aid programme is setting out with highly uncertain chances of success," the Financial Times writes.
The U.N. on Friday launched an appeal for $2 billion in flood relief for Pakistan, Bloomberg reports. The request is the "largest appeal for humanitarian relief ever made by the world body," the news service writes (Varner, 9/17).
In the run up to the midterm elections in November, President Obama will tout the new health law as consumer-friendly provisions take effect this week.
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