The American Medical Association (AMA) voted Tuesday to ask President Obama to provide timely access to entitled care for eligible veterans utilizing the health care ...
Read More »Obamacare Loophole May Find Doctors Paying Their Patients’ Bills
By Roni Caryn Rabin Doctors groups fear their members won’t get paid because of an unusual 90-day grace period for government-subsidized health plans and are urging ...
Read More »The White House Battle of Doctors vs. Guns
By Alan Lyndon It appears as though guns will prove to be more powerful than the President of the United States in the battle for ...
Read More »Medicare’s Rollout in 1966 Much Smoother, Cheaper Than Obamacare
An article published today at the Health Affairs blog compares the costly and chaotic rollout the Affordable Care Act to the efficient 1966 implementation of Medicare. It ...
Read More »Repairs to Healthcare.gov Have Not Bolstered Support for Obamacare
By Jordan Rau Kaiser Health News Improvements in the government’s insurance Web portal have not translated into stronger public support for the health law, a ...
Read More »How Do Patients Benefit With Mental Health Parity Law?
By Michelle Andrews Kaiser Health News The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 required health plans that offer mental health and substance use disorder ...
Read More »Healthcare.gov Meets Fix Deadline, But Is It Better?
By Phil Galewitz Kaiser Health News For the first time since its mangled Oct. 1 launch, users can now go to the federal government’s insurance ...
Read More »Doctors Worried They’ll Have More Patients, Make Less Money
By Roni Caryn Rabin Kaiser Health News Many doctors are disturbed they will be paid less — often a lot less — to care for the ...
Read More »Frustrated With Healthcare.gov? Try, Try Again.
By Marissa Evans Kaiser Health News Roughly 275,000 “come back, we miss you” emails will be sent in waves this week encouraging consumers who couldn’t ...
Read More »Congress Has Plan to Fix Payments to Physicians
By Mary Agnes Carey Kaiser Health News The Democratic And Republican leaders of two key congressional committees have agreed on a framework to scrap the ...
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