Coretopic:Health Reform

For decades, U.S. lawmakers struggled with how to ensure all Americans had health insurance. Every other developed country – and many less developed – had some kind of universal or near-universal coverage. On March 23, 2010, President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act – commonly shortened to Affordable Care Act (ACA), or, among opponents, “Obamacare.” Under the law, an estimated 32 million Americans will get coverage by 2019. Yet the complex, multi-part legislation remains highly divisive and misunderstood. Political and policy uncertainties may shadow, or threaten, implementation in the years to come.

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Health Reform: Reducing Paperwork and Administrative Costs
The health care reform law institutes changes, beginning Oct. 1, to standardize billing and requires health plans to begin implementing rules for the secure, confidential, electronic exchange of health information.

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Esophageal cancer screening could lead to runaway health costs
Reuters’ Frederik Joelving reports that a new, easier method of taking biopsies to detect esophogeal cancer, called TSA, has opened a up a ...

Experts share challenges of setting up state insurance exchanges
Setting up a state insurance exchange is a complicated endeavor – made more so by the bitter politics of health reform and the uncertainty over the ...

Comprehensive series on N.C. hospitals includes national context, effects of reform
The (Raleigh, N.C.) News & Observer and The Charlotte (N.C.) Observer just combined forces to do a terrific five-part series on hospitals called ...

Plenty of stories in how ACA could affect veterans’ health care
While preparing for a veterans health panel I moderated at the recent AHCJ conference in Atlanta, I remembered an article in the Journal of the ...

Understand how Supreme Court’s possible decisions will affect seniors
Older Americans have a lot at stake as the Supreme Court considers the future of the Affordable Care Act, and it behooves reporters on the aging beat ...

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