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Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including news about the launch of a government health insurance web site and the start of the high-risk health insurance pools mandated in the health reform law.
Results suggest the Obama administration's effort to promote the legislation may be paying off or that the public may be warming to the measure as provisions take effect.
News outlets report on a range of political developments related to the health reform law.
The budget office's findings also suggest that, if Congress does not stick to some of the more difficult requirements of the health law, the fiscal picture will be even darker.
The Obama administration is about to kick off one of the earliest and most ambitious programs of the health care overhaul.
The Department of Health and Human Services announced Tuesday that it has started accepting applications for the early retiree reinsurance program.
A federal judge ruled in favor of Merck & Co. Tuesday in a lawsuit brought by Louisiana trying to recoup what it paid when Medicaid patients used the company's withdrawn painkiller Vioxx, The Associated Press reports.
Kaiser Health News presents a selection of Wednesday's opinions and editorials from around the country.
News outlets report on efforts to implement electronic health records.
States address a range of health care issues.
As federal stimulus funds begin to run out, including the use of some to aid states meet swelling Medicaid rolls, lawmakers and others are worried that the U.S. economy could again stall, the Los Angeles Times reports.
Three former employees allege the company hid profits in an offshorte subsidiary, cut costs by dropping coverage of sick patients, overbilled and used fraudulent documents to to increase its payments from Medicare and Medicaid.
Health care spending has outpaced economic growth in industrialized nations, according to a new report by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
Under questioning from Republican senators about law's mandate to get health coverage, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan noted that the Commerce Clause gives Congress broad authority in such areas.
Democratic lawmakers are pushing the White House to launch a home health demonstration project as soon as possible.
The World Bank, WHO and UNAIDS on Monday released a joint report that pulls together data characterizing the HIV/AIDS epidemic from 23 countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, IRIN reports (6/30).
Insurance company says consumers' Social Security numbers and other sensitive data may have been available to the public.
Medicare's plan to base hospital payments off quality-of-care assessments could harm vulnerable hospitals.
SciDev.Net features two stories on integrating traditional remedies with modern medicine.
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