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These supposed "consumer protections" are hurting millions of Americans by increasing the cost of insurance and the cost of hiring, as well as driving insurers out of business. They should be called what they really are: regulations that can hurt even more than they help.
Sometimes the noisiest voices in the health overhaul debate don't make a good faith effort to acknowledge important scientific or policy-oriented nuances in their arguments. It's happening again in the wake of a controversial regulatory ruling about a cancer drug.
There are ways for Democrats and Republicans to agree to improve the new health care law in 2011.
In these specialized units for premature infants or babies with special needs, the doctors and other personnel may not be under contract with an insurer's network even though the hospital is covered.
KHN reporters preview some of the big issues coming this year: KHN reporter Jenny Gold says marketplace consolidations, especially with a great number of hospital mergers, could change the health care landscape.
In 2011 many new provisions of the health law kick in, providing benefits for many and potential new costs for some others.
The new health law adds coverage for an annual checkup, but in the past beneficiaries have not shown great interest in the "wellness exams" offered when they first qualify for Medicare.
Michelle Andrews speaks with KFF's Jackie Judd about changes in lifetime insurance limits, keeping children insured, the new high-risk pools, rising health costs and consumers' misperceptions about the overhaul.
Democrats and Republicans may spend the next two years fighting about what to jettison or retain in the new health law. If these battles are resolved, we'll be back to address another looming challenge: long-term care. It's best that this happen sooner rather than later.
The wider use of a cheap blood test could help cut the number of new HIV infections by more than 80,000 in the United States over 20 years, but the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force hasn't come around to that view.
A good story involves drama and conflict. It's a great story when a federal judge with Republican ties nixing the president's achievement in ensuring access to care for all. But a couple of reports about hospitals avoidably killing tens of thousands of Americans once they have that access to care apparently has little, if any, drama at all.
Michelle Andrews answers a question from a consumer about options for seeking health coverage when cost and other considerations put most other coverage out of reach.
Michelle Andrews answers a question from a consumer about why health plans are not touting more preventive health care to save on costs in the system. But, as Andrews details, new plans are going to have to provide many different sorts of preventive health services for free.
Michelle Andrews answers a question from a consumer about what to consider when looking to buy a health insurance plan.
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.
It is essential that political leaders come together in a bipartisan fashion to put our government's finances on more stable footing. But that won't be done if the nation's approach to health care is supported by only one of the two major political parties.
Doctors in some areas of Britain do one type of hip replacement at rates up to 16 times greater than in places like London, according to a November atlas by the National Health Service, mirroring a problem Medicare researchers have seen in the U.S.
Here is a question for the state officials who oppose expanding the safety net program or support getting rid of it: What do you propose to do instead? The answer appears to be very little.
The individual mandate as included in the health overhaul isn't even close to what it has been made to be -- a provision that would protect the integrity of the health insurance market by forcing people to buy health insurance before they became sick.
Recent coverage of the proposals offered by President Obama's debt commission managed to gloss over a huge factor adding to the nation's deficit -- Medicaid. But the problem wasn't just in the coverage, but in the report, too. The final version ignored the massive expansion of the Medicaid program included in the new health care lawand didn't push for structural reforms to the program.
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