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At the start of his bipartisan debt commission meeting, the president said everything was up for discussion, including provisions of the new health law, Medicare and Social Security.
WellPoint will put into effect this week a health overhaul provision preventing insurers from canceling policies - a practice known as rescission - except in fraud cases, even though the change isn't required until September.
Insurers can meet the requirement in the new health overhaul law for minimum spending on patient care by deducting new taxes and relabeling expenses related to improving "health care quality" as medical costs, rather than administrative ones, according to an April 24 memo from an expert at the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.
Kaiser Health News presents a selection of Wednesday's opinions and editorials from around America.
A Los Angeles area free clinic is overwhelmed with demand for dental services, while a North Carolina County may cut dental coverage for adult Medicaid recipients.
In other state news: Oklahoma legislature overrides governor's veto of abortion bills; Kansas considers tax on nursing home beds; Florida wrestles with crackdown on pain pills.
Thirteen more lines of human embryonic stem cells are now officially eligible for federal funding since approval by the National Institutes of Health.
The courts tackle a range of legal actions related to drug makers.
Reuters reports that a new survey published Wednesday suggests that "Americans are steadily losing confidence in their ability to get healthcare and pay for it, despite the passage of healthcare reform legislation."
Despite confusion about health overhaul's effect on total jobs, Sand Francisco Chronicle explores three jobs that could be affected.
A proposed acquisition of Boston's Catholic hospital system Caritas Christi Health Care by private-equity firm Cerberus Capital Management may test the theory that "profitability and religious mission can be integrated."
A study in the Journal of the American Medical Association analyzed data from Medicare cancer patients to determine the change in imaging use for this group.
Young adults and their parents eager to take advantage of a new law that will allow parents to keep their children up to the age of 26 on their health plans are facing obstacles in even learning exactly when they'll be eligible.
Annual survey by a long-term care insurance company shows larger increases in long-term care prices than for in-home care.
The health law will likely cost drugmakers $25 billion more than the $80 billion the industry anticipated when it agreed to back the Democratic-led effort, according to Wall Street analysts.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, such as coverage of the new debt commission's attention to entitlements -- including Medicare, as well as the latest developments related to insurers' use of an industry practice known as rescissions.
A report released today by Moody's Investors Services details the ways in which the health reform law will further stretch state budgets.
The Obama administration is reassuring employers that neither they nor their employees will face a tax hit if health coverage is extended immediately to children as old as 26.
World Malaria Day was Sunday and news organizations continued to cover local events.
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