Policy and Legislation
Two years after the reauthorization and expansion of the Children's Health Insurance Program, a state-by-state scorecard designed to evaluate how the system is working finds wide geographic disparities, according to the Commonwealth Fund.
Blue Shield of California will comply with a request by California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones to delay planned rate hikes for nearly 200,000 individual policy holders for 60 days to allow the commissioner's office time to examine them.
Math. Can’t live with it. Can’t live without it. We all like things to “add up.” We want ledgers to balance. And some folks even believe numbers don’t lie.
Medical malpractice reform is one of the few health care policy issues where there is a real possibility of agreement between the White House and Congress.
A Florida judge has struck down the Affordable Care Act, ruling Monday on a case filed by 25 Republican attorneys general and governors.
During the 2010 election Republicans promised to “Repeal and Replace” the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Having gained a majority in the House of Representatives they quickly passed a bill to do just that (joined by three Democrats). Having failed to gain a majority in the Senate the repeal process is all but over.
Provisions under the Affordable Care Act that specify administrative costs for health plans don't take into account the cost of fraud prevention programs that health plans already have in place, according to a new brief released by America's Health Insurance Plans.
Research on post-traumatic stress disorder cost the government $24.5 million in 2009, up from the $9.9 million spent in 2005, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office.
Ten months after the Affordable Care Act became a law and almost three months after a mid-term election produced a historic number of new Republican lawmakers, state health insurance commissioners find themselves in a precarious position.
Americans remain divided over the Affordable Care Act, while those who oppose it don't want to see it defunded, according to a new survey conducted by Kaiser Family Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health.