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While health care issues did not take up much of Sunday morning's debate, the candidates agreed that Medicare should be a Rep. Paul-Ryan-style "premium support" system and former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney said that, in the future, he believes wealthy Medicare recipients should have to pay more for the program.
Kansas and Oklahoma are the seventh and eighth states to get the thumbs down from the federal government on their requests to phase in new regulations that could result in health insurance rebates to consumers.
KHN's Mary Agnes Carey talks with Jackie Judd about what a divided Congress will face when it returns to Washington this month and begins dealing with fixing how Medicare pays doctors. A conference committee has until the end of February to fix the so-called "Sustainable Growth Rate" or doctors face a big pay cut.
Some companies are also penalizing employees who don't give up cigarettes by hitting them with higher health insurance premiums.
He's done with mandates, but Newt Gingrich likes John Goodman's idea for helping people who buy insurance and paying for care for those who don't.
KHN reporters preview some of the big issues coming this year: KHN Web Reporter Sarah Barr discusses what waivers states could seek to change Medicare in their states.
KHN reporters preview some of the big issues coming this year: KHN Senior Correspondent Julie Appleby discusses what changes could be in store for insurers.
KHN reporters preview some of the big issues coming this year: KHN Web Reporter Christian Torres says lesser known provisions in the health care law will be what he follows this year.
KHN reporters preview some of the big issues coming this year: KHN Reporter Jenny Gold says she'll be watching how states cut health care in their budgets.
KHN reporters preview some of the big issues coming this year: KHN Senior Correspondent Jordan Rau says he'll be keeping an eye on how Medicare proposes to change how it pays hospitals after changes in the health law.
KHN reporters preview some of the big issues coming this year: KHN Robin Toner Distinguished Fellow Marilyn Werber Serafini says she'll be following the 2012 presidential campaigns and how health care plays into the race.
KHN reporters preview some of the big issues coming this year: KHN Senior Correspondent Phil Galewitz says he'll be following health care in the states, Medicaid and how the Supreme Court will rule on the health law.
KHN reporters preview some of the big issues coming this year: KHN Web Reporter Jessica Marcy says she'll be examining the different kinds of health care workers -- growing in numbers -- looking to give more people more care.
KHN reporters preview some of the big issues coming this year: KHN Web Reporter Shefali S. Kulkarni says to watch out for how health disparities are affected by implementation of the health law.
KHN reporters preview some of the big issues coming this year: KHN Senior Correspondent Mary Agnes Carey says she'll be following Republican efforts to dismantle the health law.
Former Massachsetts Gov. Mitt Romney's years as governor are defined by his role in reforming health care in the Bay State. It's sometimes a political albatross, but it's also proof, the candidate for president himself says, that he could bridge party divisions in Washington.
Technical, political and financial obstacles loom as clock ticks toward 2014 deadline for operations.
Edited selections from KHN's interview with former CMS Administrator Donald Berwick.
At Saturday night's debate in Des Moines, the GOP presidential candidates spent a considerable amount of time discussing the 2010 health law. In the debate's most talked-about moment, Mitt Romney offered to bet Rick Perry $10,000 that what Perry was saying about Romney's book wasn't correct.
Crowded emergency rooms and a lack of primary care doctors have fueled recent expansions. But the drive to lower costs is also a factor and could bring more customers under the overhaul.
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