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Text: President Obama Makes Health Law Defense At Conference

By KFF Health News Staff January 28, 2011 KFF Health News Original

President Barack Obama Friday morning addressed a group of people gathered at the Families USA Health Action conference and continued his defense of the health law.

Insurers Clash With Hospitals And Doctors Over ACO Rules

By Jordan Rau January 9, 2011 KFF Health News Original

Powerful interests that are supposed to create and run the health law’s new accountable care organizations are fighting over what the rules governing ACOs should say.

More Elderly and Disabled Medicaid Patients Headed for Managed Long-Term Care

By Phil Galewitz February 14, 2011 KFF Health News Original

Some patient advocates and nursing homes object, but health plans say they can reduce states’ costs.

Helping Patients Understand Their Medical Treatment

By Sandra G. Boodman March 1, 2011 KFF Health News Original

Consumers are increasingly expected to manage their complex regimens but that is especially challenging for those who don’t have the ability to comprehend health information.

The Health Law’s Co-op Program: A Political Device Or The Affordable Alternative Consumers Need?

By Sabrina Corlette January 25, 2011 KFF Health News Original

It will take a serious and sustained effort to make co-ops a viable insurance option for consumers and small business owners.

Key Health Law Provisions Begin Sept. 23

By Michelle Andrews September 14, 2010 KFF Health News Original

Some insurers have already altered their plans to reflect the law. But starting this month, a number of provisions become mandatory for insurance plans, including a ban on lifetime benefit limits and the ability to keep adult children on parents’ plans.

Documents: Medicare, Medicaid In The GOP’s ‘Path to Prosperity’ Budget

By KFF Health News Staff April 5, 2011 KFF Health News Original

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.

Health Law Guarantees Protections For Emergency Room Visits

By Maggie Mertens May 13, 2010 KFF Health News Original

The new health law mandates that insurers cannot pay less for emergency care in “out-of-network” hospitals and eases consumer worries about having to pre-authorize an emergency room visit.

Health Programs On The Chopping Block As States Gird For Drop In Federal Aid

By Julie Appleby February 9, 2011 KFF Health News Original

Hundreds of thousands of Americans are at risk of losing access to health services as states prepare to make yet another round of budget cuts.

Text: President Obama’s Proposed 2012 HHS Budget

February 14, 2011 KFF Health News Original

Text of President Obama’s proposed budget for the Department of Health and Human Services.

Campaign Claims: Health Law Myths And Facts

By Julie Appleby, KFF Health News and N.C. Aizenman, The Washington Post October 19, 2010 KFF Health News Original

The debate that preceded passage of the health-care overhaul resumed as a heated issue in the midterm elections. Politicians and advocacy groups seeking repeal of the law are making dramatic claims about the its cost and effects. How valid are they? We evaluate some of the most common criticisms.

In Dialysis, Life-Saving Care at Great Risk and Cost

By Robin Fields, ProPublica November 11, 2010 KFF Health News Original

An untold number of dialysis patients are injured or die as a result of needle dislodgements, but Medicare rules don’t require clinics to report such adverse incidents to outside authorities.

Obama Administration’s Balancing Act: Health Insurance Benefits Vs. Costs

By Julie Appleby January 11, 2011 KFF Health News Original

Advocacy groups are lobbying as government advisory panel tackles key question: What benefits must insurers cover?

A Defense Of High-Risk Insurance Pools — From One Critic To The Others

By Harold Pollack January 17, 2011 KFF Health News Original

An ironic partisan tinge has become evident in recent criticisms leveled at the health overhaul’s high-risk insurance pools.

A New ‘Definition’ For Health Care Reform

By James C. Capretta and Tom Miller January 14, 2011 KFF Health News Original

Pursuing health reforms that transform current health insurance arrangements into aproaches based on defined contributions will set in motion a competitive dynamic from which all Americans would benefit.

When Bad News About Health Reform Isn’t Bad

By Jonathan Cohn July 19, 2010 KFF Health News Original

This column is a collaboration between KHN and The New Republic. The weekend’s newspapers included a pair of headlines about health care reform. And they were probably not the kind that reform advocates like to see. One was in the Boston Globe: “Firms Cancel Health Coverage.” According to the article, a number of small businesses […]

Some Policies Restrict Coverage By Limiting Visits To The Doctor

By Michelle Andrews December 21, 2010 KFF Health News Original

The new health law eliminated lifetime and most annual dollar limits for consumers but some plans cut costs by covering only a defined number of doctor appointments, prescriptions or other services.

Big Hospitals Dictate Premiums Using Their Clout

By Sarah Varney, KQED November 22, 2010 KFF Health News Original

Hospitals are using their size and pricing clout to define premiums for people around America, like in the Sutter Health system in California, where hospital prices are among the highest in the nation.

Liberals Pounce On GOP Congressman Who Wants His Health Care

By Julie Rovner, NPR News November 23, 2010 KFF Health News Original

When a little-known GOP Congressman-elect who campaigned against the new health law demanded that the benefits of his new federal health plan start immediately, it was an irresistible opening for some.

Health Law Expected To Boost Medicaid Enrollees In Managed Care

By Phil Galewitz November 12, 2010 KFF Health News Original

But states’ increasing use of the private plans is raising questions about whether low-income residents are getting adequate care.

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