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KHN's Mary Agnes Carey talks with Politico Pro's Paige Winfield Cunningham about the latest Republican effort to delay or repeal Obamacare provisions, including postponing a mandate on individuals to carry health insurance.
The Affordable Care Act's success or failure will depend in large part on the efforts of rural hospitals such as Poplar Bluff to treat the poor.
The state is trying to reduce health care costs by encouraging those who constantly turn up at the ER to get their health care from regular doctors instead.
Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center operates seven family clinics in four rural counties to fill the gap for rural patients.
Some of the nation's unhealthiest people aren't likely to receive those benefits, because the requirements in the law pertain only to private insurers, Medicare and Medicaid expansion programs.
The work day for doctors in their first year out of medical school was cut to 16 hours to reduce fatigue and medical errors. But recent studies suggest it may be making the situation worse.
Although much has been made about the tax credits that will help people afford to pay insurance premiums, the cost-sharing assistance can substantially reduce out-of-pocket medical expenses.
The Red Sox helped get the word out about Massachusetts' health reform in 2007, and in Colorado at least, the state is marketing its new insurance exchange to fans of the Rockies.
It took his parents 86 phone calls and six months to get their newborn enrolled in a Pennsylvania program for children.
The federal health law requires two plans in every state, but few insurers are lining up to play.
The health law's expansion of Medicaid is putting a spotlight on how regulators monitor the performance of privately-run plans.
After 20 years as a busy ER doctor, Linda Smith now finds satisfaction guiding patients through treatment for life-threatening illnesses.
Companies with at least 50 workers now have until 2015 to provide coverage. Here's what that change means - and doesn't mean - for employees and employers.
The New York legislature passed a bill that would make the state the first in the nation requiring doctors to offer the hepatitis C test to anyone born between 1945 and 1965.
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