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One key element of both the House and Senate health bills would create health insurance "exchanges" where individuals and small businesses could purchase health insurance. However, the House and Senate versions would work in very different ways. This story comes from our partner NPR News.
Lawmakers disagree, fundamentally, on how to save costs in the Medicare program and if recent proposals -- like the GOP one passed recently in the House -- will save money or just shift costs to Medicare patients.
The final decision on who should supervise health exchanges is critical to health plan choices available to consumers, the cost of the premiums and the clout regulators may have.
Last week, the president said the country has serious issues to address. He's right. One of the biggest is the budget challenge. Unfortunately, the president's carefully orchestrated attack on the Ryan plan has made it much less likely that real progress will be made before 2013 to address the problem.
When writing the final ACO rules, CMS has the chance to spin the dross of the current regulations into something of genuine value to providers, even if it's not quite Rumpelstiltskin-quality gold. If the feds fail, it is all of us, not just those on Medicare program, who could live unhappily ever after.
The Senate health care reform bill contains none of the features needed for real reform. The principal lobbyists have all scored impressive victories.
Hospitals, doctors scramble for outside help in deciphering how to capitalize on health law's "accountable care organizations."
Now that the Senate has passed a hotly debated health care bill, Congress is headed to the next step: House-Senate negotiations in January to try to hammer out a final version. Here's where things stand and how you might be affected.
To get a sense of who's right on cost-control, some perspective is necessary.
The GOP "Path to Prosperity" 2012 budget blueprint includes proposals to restrain spending growth in health care costs by voucherizing Medicare and giving Medicaid block grants to states.
Democrats get new momentum from House passage of a health care bill, but face new tests in bridging differences within the party -- and between the chambers -- on cost, financing and coverage.
As House Democratic leaders celebrate passage of health care legislation, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., continues to await a Congressional Budget Office analysis as he tries to craft a compromise package between bills passed by the Senate Finance and the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committees.
Comparing plans can save hundreds of dollars for some consumers but many people are overwhelmed at the prospect of making such a change. Seniors have until the end of the year to revise their coverage.
House Republicans are questioning whether the lobbying group is putting its potential for profit ahead of its members' interests. It seems that whenever health care changes are debated, one party or the other seeks to undermine the organization's clout. This story comes from our partner NPR News.
KHN's Mary Agnes Carey and other experts discuss recent and upcoming activities on the Hill -- part of a weekly series of video reports.
The Senate and House health bills differ in important ways. We ask and answer questions consumers might have about the bills.
Part of the effort to cut health spending aims at Medicare Advantage programs, which often offer benefits that go beyond traditional Medicare. But Obama says they are unfair and inefficient.
As the Senate Finance Committee devolved into partisan infighting about health overhaul legislation, chairman Max Baucus quoted Harry Truman's advice to show some courageous, skillful leadership, and seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
As a part of our "Are You Covered?" series, KHN and NPR examine how the health overhaul would affect medicare.
Shumlin's bill would set up state-run insurance coverage, but many details
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