As Health Law Turns Three, Public Is As Confused As Ever
As the Affordable Care Act nears its third birthday this Saturday, a poll finds the public actually knows less about the law now than when it passed in 2010. Oh, and a lot of what people think they...
View ArticleAt Age 3, Affordable Care Act Is No Less Controversial
The Affordable Care Act turns 3 on Saturday, and it seems just as divisive as the day President Obama signed it."This law expands our competitiveness, promotes wellness and prevention, and enhances the...
View ArticleArkansas Medicaid Expansion Attracts Other States' Interest
Since the Supreme Court made the Medicaid expansion under the federal health law optional last year, states' decisions have largely split along party lines.
View ArticleWhite House Delays Part Of Health Care Law
Transcript DAVID GREENE, HOST: The Obama administration is delaying the start of a key piece of the Affordable Care Act - the national healthcare law. Workers in small businesses will have to wait an...
View ArticleAdministration Hits Pause On Health Exchanges For Small Businesses
The Obama administration is delaying the start of a key piece of the Affordable Care Act.
View ArticleJudge Rules Morning-After Pill Should Be Available To All Ages
A federal judge in New York has ordered the Food and Drug Administration to lift all age restrictions on the over-the-counter sale of the so-called Morning After Pill. The decision could herald the end...
View ArticleWith Plan B Ruling, Judge Signs Off On Years Of Advocacy
A federal judge ordered Friday what women's groups have failed to accomplish politically for a dozen years. He ruled that Plan B, the most commonly used morning-after birth control pill, be sold...
View ArticleThe 'Hard-To-Change' Legacy Of Medicare Payments
The budget President Obama will send to Congress Wednesday is expected to include some $400 billion in reductions to Medicare and other health programs.And if the word around Washington is correct, it...
View ArticleWhy Obama's Budget Could Make Health Waves
OK, the conventional wisdom about the budget President Obama sent to Congress yesterday is that's irrelevant.It's two months late, after all, and the House and Senate have already approved their own...
View ArticlePhiladelphia Case Exposes Deep Rift In Abortion Debate
This is the sixth week of the trial of Dr.
View ArticleFamily Doctors Consider Dropping Birth Control Training Rule
One of the more popular provisions of the federal health law requires that women be given much freer access to prescription methods of birth control.
View ArticleFDA OKs Prescription-Free Plan B Pill For Women 15 And Up
In an effort to find a compromise for a politically fraught issue, the Food and Drug Administration has approved a proposal to make the emergency contraceptive pill Plan B more available to some...
View ArticleSecond Thoughts On Medicaid From Oregon's Unique Experiment
Two years ago, a landmark study found that having Medicaid health insurance makes a positive difference in people's lives.Backers of the program have pointed to that study time and again in their push...
View ArticleWomen's Health Groups Angered By Morning-After Pill Moves
The administration's actions this week on emergency contraception have left many women's health groups sputtering with anger.But what really has some of the President Obama's usual allies irritated is...
View ArticleWhy A Slowdown In Health Spending Is Starting To Look Real
So you know all that talk about how the boatload of money going to health care will bankrupt the nation if something isn't done soon?Well, it turns out that while politicians were bickering, the...
View ArticlePhilly Murder Conviction Expected To Inflame Abortion Debate
Transcript STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Now, the murder conviction of Kermit Gosnell is likely to bring more sparks to the already heated abortion debate in Washington and across the nation. Those on both...
View ArticleA Sharper Abortion Debate After Gosnell Verdict
The murder conviction in Philadelphia of abortion provider Dr.
View ArticleSwell Of Goodwill For First Medicare Chief Confirmed Since 2004
When the Senate voted Tuesday to make Marilyn Tavenner the official administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, it was the first time the world's greatest deliberative body had...
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