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New Jersey attempted reforms without imposing a mandate. The outcome in that state offers reasons why supporters say the individual mandate is necessary if the federal health law is to achieve its goals.
KHN's Marilyn Werber Serafini and Mary Agnes Carey discuss the budget Wis. Republican Rep. Paul Ryan released today and how it differs from the proposal he released last year.
In a news conference Tuesday on Capitol Hill, Reps. Paul Ryan and Tom Price said that the proposed sweeping changes would protect the program for seniors and the disabled.
The states are concerned that third-party funding may drive up the number of people seeking to join the pre-existing condition insurance plans and exhaust the budgets provided by the federal government.
Texas has the highest rate of uninsured residents -- 25 percent -- while Massachusetts' is the lowest -- less than 2 percent. We profile two people who are living the reality of that difference.
Against a backdrop of proposals to overhaul the popular social insurance program and a presidential campaign likely to address entitlement spending, the seniors group is mobilizing.
This long-awaited regulation -- designed to boost benefits offered by student health insurance plans -- could affect plan costs and, in some instances, the cost of attending college.
The state's largest employer group and a coalition of congregations are putting pressure on state legislators to curb spending dramatically.
Even as the Supreme Court prepares to hear the historic lawsuit against the Affordable Care Act, consumers are already seeing some changes. Jackie Judd talks with KHN's "Insuring Your Health" columnist Michelle Andrews about insurance rebates, flexible spending accounts, preventive care (including contraceptives) and easy-to-read insurance labels.
Mississippi, a deeply red Southern state that is part of the Supreme Court case against the health law, is moving full speed ahead with one of the key provisions of that law: an online health insurance exchange.
Despite deep political division about the health overhaul, implementation marches on.
The long-awaited rules may disappoint consumer groups which had sought to reduce the clout of insurers on the governing boards.
An interactive chart shows where eight of the current and former candidates - Gingrich, Paul, Romney, Santorum, Bachmann, Cain, Huntsman and Perry - stand on major health care issues.
KHN's Mary Agnes Carey talks with Jackie Judd about the latest movement in House Republican efforts to repeal a key part of the health reform law -- the Independent Payment Advisory Board. One House committee passed a repeal of IPAB Tuesday while another held a hearing on it. The full House is expected to vote on a repeal of IPAB as early as the end of March.
Doctors and other care providers are increasing using checklists in their work, but one author has developed similar guides for consumers.
Study finds that's mostly because the government pays far lower rates for hospital care
Mary Agnes Carey talks with Jackie Judd about HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius' appearance before the House Ways and Means Committee. She defended the health care law and the president's fiscal 2013 budget request. The hearing had all the hallmarks of a partisan political event.
With more people buying insurance on their own, and even more slated to because of the health law, insurers are seeking a retail strategy.
While controversy over one aspect of the Obama administration's contraception rule
The University Of Maryland's Dr. E. Albert Reece and The Heritage Foundation's Stuart Butler discuss how health enterprise zones, a new take on an old economic development idea, might be used to improve the health of the state's minority populations.
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