Private Health Care

HARRISON, Ark. -- Arkansas will be the first state in the nation to use its federal Medicaid dollars to purchase private health insurance for tens of thousands of low-income people. Coats Chiropractic doesn't usually see low-income patients for...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- Picket signs and megaphones could be seen in downtown Springfield Wednesday -- all aimed at healthcare.   The Missouri State Workers Union held a rally ahead of a board meeting that could determine their fate. The Missouri...

As reported by ModernHealthcare.com on Thursday, May 23, 2013: "After 30 hours of debate over a three-week period, the Senate Judiciary Committee has passed a bipartisan immigration bill that would seek to strengthen the country's healthcare workforce...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - When a sick Indonesian baby died after 10 hospitals in Jakarta turned her family away in February, critics blamed a pilot health insurance scheme that had overwhelmed the city's public hospitals. The program, introduced in November,...

We've long advocated that health care reform in this country must include a major effort to curb health care cost increases, which have outpaced that of virtually every other vital service or product. But we see no clear way of doing so as long as there...

In describing how America's health care payment system works, the words "perverse" and "unsustainable" came up Friday morning in a panel of Chippewa Valley health care leaders. The U.S. already spends $1 out of every $6 in its economy on health care,...

An investigator from the U.S. Department of Labor interviewed current and former county commissioners this week about whether the county exercises any oversight of Carolinas HealthCare System. The question is a key component of a 2-year-old federal...

A sharply divided legislative committee voted Thursday to support a Democratic proposal that ties an expansion of Medicaid to Gov. Paul LePage's top priority of the legislative session: paying back Maine's $484 million debt to its 39 hospitals. The...

Republicans and Gov. Paul LePage have drawn attention to a drafting error in the federal Affordable Care Act in recent days as they resist attempts by Democratic legislative leaders to tie an expansion of Maine's Medicaid program to one of LePage 's top...

Though there are some signs that the economy is improving, once again the needs of the poor are being ignored. Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has proposed to eliminate HUSKY health insurance for parents whose incomes fall between 133% and 185% of the federal...

WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans have opened a new line of attack on President Obama's healthcare law, charging that the administration has improperly sought help from the healthcare industry and other outside groups to implement the...

* House Republicans seek identity of companies contacted * Senate Republican calls on Sebelius to cease fund-raising By David Morgan WASHINGTON, May 13 (Reuters) - An Obama administration effort to raise private donations to help implement President...