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By Michael Booth It came sometime after the “You lie!” outburst and the false claims of “death panels,” but before two potentially fatal US Supreme Court decisions and sixty-seven consecutive votes to repeal in the US House of Representatives. In hindsight, President Obama’s signing of…

by Bob Crittenden, M.D. Co-authored with Aaron Smith, co-founder and executive director of Young InvinciblesWith the fate of our health care system on the line, one would think that the Supreme Court would base their decisions on clear facts and objective data on the monumental issues at…

By Sarah Kliff Where are we in setting up the health reform law? We are, as you can see below, literally all over the map: (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities) Even though the Affordable Care Act establishes that every state must have a health exchange…

[caption id="attachment_79645" align="alignnone" width="620"] TCD’s Tilda began tracking over 8,000 adults aged 50 and over in 2010. Photograph: Getty Images[/caption] By Paul Cullen Ireland’s older adults are bankrolling their children, providing care for their grandchildren but leaving their own health challenges untreated or undiagnosed, a…

Washington, D.C. - To help implement local outreach efforts to enroll children and families in Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), the National League of Cities (NLC) today awarded grants and technical assistance to eight cities.The Cities Expanding Health Access for Children and Families…

by Judith Graham They are splitting pills or deciding not to refill prescriptions. They're missing doctors' appointments, skipping needed dental work, canceling home-care services. As the economy founders, Chicago's seniors are cutting back wherever they can, and health care is high on the list of…

By Naomi Rothwell The dramatic story of the recent American health care reform movement – and how foundations had a hand in changing history – has not been widely told. Starting in 2008, Atlantic Philanthropies and others helped fund an extraordinary campaign to push for…

There's no reason why, in just one year, popularity of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act should have risen dramatically. Nor is it true, much as some people would like to spin it that way, that the single largest expansion of the social safety…

South Africa's model of health care financing is "primitive" and will be abandoned, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said. "The present system of health care financing can no longer be allowed to go on, because it is simply unsustainable," Motsoaledi said during his budget vote speech…

by JASON NOBLE JEFFERSON CITY | Missouri House Republicans on Wednesday shot down an attempt by Democratic lawmakers and the governor to reduce health-care premiums and increase access for thousands of children. Gov. Jay Nixon, a Democrat, had proposed expanding the number of families eligible…