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Medicare Spends Less Than Private Insurers On Knee Replacements
Study finds that's mostly because the government pays far lower rates for hospital care
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House Republicans Pound Sebelius On Health Law
Mary Agnes Carey talks with Jackie Judd about HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius' appearance before the House Ways and Means Committee. She defended the health care law and the president's fiscal 2013 budget request. The hearing had all the hallmarks of a partisan political event.
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Insurers Open Stores To Peddle Health Plans
With more people buying insurance on their own, and even more slated to because of the health law, insurers are seeking a retail strategy.
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Q&A: I Was Billed, But Aren’t Colonoscopies Free Under The Health Law?
Michelle Andrews answers a question from a reader who had a colonoscopy and was billed a 30 percent co-pay. The reader asks: Aren't preventive services like that free under the health law?
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Five Questions About The Health Law’s Mandate To Cover Birth Control
While controversy over one aspect of the Obama administration's contraception rule
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Different Takes: Maryland Advances An ‘Enterprising’ Plan To Eliminate Health Disparities
The University Of Maryland's Dr. E. Albert Reece and The Heritage Foundation's Stuart Butler discuss how health enterprise zones, a new take on an old economic development idea, might be used to improve the health of the state's minority populations.
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Using A New Twist On Enterprise Zones To Eliminate Health Disparities
Dr. E. Albert Reece, the dean of the University of Maryland School of Medicine, writes that the state's General Assembly is considering a series of bold initiatives - including "Health Enterprize Zones" - to reduce and eliminate health disparities, especially in Maryland's most underserved communities.
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Maryland’s Health Enterprise Zones Need The Right Incentives And Rules
The Heritage Foundation's Stuart Butler, an architect of the urban "enterprise zone" idea more than 30 years ago, offers his suggestions on how to make a recent proposal in Maryland to set up Health Enterprise Zones a successful endeavor.
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Minnesota Exchange Grant Arrives In Politically Divided State
The federal government has awarded Minnesota $26 million to help it create a health insurance exchange, but Republicans in the GOP-led state legislature there are engaged in a bitter fight with Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton on its planning and even its existence.
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Testy Santorum, Romney Tussle Over Mass. Health Reform
In the last scheduled Republican debate, candidates Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul attacked the Obama administration on its birth control stance. Santorum dovetailed the issue into an attack of the 2006 Massachusetts health reform law, which then-Gov. Romney endorsed. Here is a transcript of the health care portions of the debate:
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