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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.
Canada on Monday at a meeting of G8 development ministers in Halifax, Canada, said its maternal and child health initiative, which is expected to be a "centerpiece issue" at the G8 summit in late June, will not include funding for abortion, the Associated Press/Washington Post (Gillies, 4/26).
"A global pullback on commitments to fund and fight AIDS is resulting in restrictions on the number of people being enrolled into treatment programmes, more frequent drug shortages, and reduced national AIDS budgets," according to a report (.pdf) released Monday by the International Treatment Preparedness Coalition (ITPC), BMJ News reports.
Among the law's hot topics are how its medical loss ratio provisions will be implemented; what states will decide about high risk pools; and how the measure will change employers' choices about providing health care.
Ongoing negotiations between the European Union (EU) and India "could make it harder for millions
An analysis of Medicare payments to home health care companies by The Wall Street Journal indicates that some companies might be taking advantage of the system for their financial benefit.
In addition, a new study finds that the suburbs of Washington, D.C., are lagging behind the city's efforts to help slow the spread of HIV.
CNN reports on a physician who was shocked to see the markup on a pair of forceps used when she had surgery.
Kaiser Health News presents a selection of Tuesday's opinions and editorials from around America.
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