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In North Carolina's Research Triangle, two forces so often at odds -- a major health care system and the region's dominant insurer -- announced that they would work together in the interest of better, cheaper medicine.
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.
Advocacy groups are lobbying as government advisory panel tackles key question: What benefits must insurers cover?
For people who can't get insurance through work, finding a plan is often difficult. In addition to the high-risk pools that have recently generated a lot of attention, other options may be available, depending on which state a consumer lives in.
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.
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.
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 contributing writer Bara Vaida says the relationship between five major insurance companies and their trade group will be interesting to watch.
KHN reporters preview some of the big issues coming this year: KHN reporter Jessica Marcy says concerns continue about consumers' access to care.
In 2011 many new provisions of the health law kick in, providing benefits for many and potential new costs for some others.
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.
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.
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 Obama administration's proposed rule would require health insurers to explain in detail any rate increase of 10 percent or more in 2011.
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.
Under the health overhaul law, insurers will be required to provide their benefits information on a standardized chart using the same plain English terms as other companies to help shoppers understand and compare complicated policies.
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