Topic: Health Care Policy
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to decide the fate of President Barack Obama's healthcare law, with an election-year ruling due by July on the U.S. healthcare system's biggest overhaul in nearly 50 years.A Supreme Court spokeswoman said oral ...
LITTLETON, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Last year Carolyn Brackett and her family received $700 to help pay their gas bills from a federal program for low-income families -- enough to heat their home for six weeks during New Hampshire's long, cold winter.But ...
(Reuters) - Americans' opinion of President Barack Obama's healthcare reform in October reached its lowest point since the law passed in March 2010, according to a monthly poll by the non-profit, non-partisan Kaiser Family Foundation.The view of the law has been roughly ...
(Reuters) - DaVita Inc, the biggest U.S. operator of dialysis clinics, said it is the subject of a government probe into payments for infusion drugs covered by the Medicaid health program for the poor in New York.DaVita said it believed the inquiry ...
President Barack Obama will honor gay rights advocate Janice Langbehn with the Presidential Citizens Medal at an October 20 receptionPresident Barack Obama will honor gay rights advocate Janice Langbehn with the Presidential Citizens Medal at an October 20 reception. Langbehn is among ...
Controversial health reforms will be debated in the House of Lords on Tuesday as mounting opposition to the plans threatens to derail them.Medical professionals have urged ministers to scrap or significantly rewrite the Health and Social Care Bill while Labour politicians are ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. medical patients would be able to get their laboratory test results directly from the labs rather than wait for a copy from their doctors under a new rule proposed by federal health officials.U.S. Department of Health and Human ...
A second US appeals court upheld President Barack Obama's health care overhaul Thursday, but an earlier ruling against the plan means his signature reform is destined for the Supreme Court.The three-judge panel of the 4th US Circuit Court in Virginia ruled that ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Thursday threw out Virginia's challenge to the constitutionality of the healthcare overhaul signed into law by U.S. President Barack Obama last year.The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a ruling by a ...
The proposed overhaul of the state-run National Health Service has cleared its first hurdle after MPs in the lower House of Commons voted in favour of the controversial bill.MPs voted for the reforms by 316 to 251 on Wednesday, but the bill ...