Two key Senate Democrats told President Obama that they remain committed to passing health care overhaul legislation this year. Read more »
Tom Daschle has withdrawn from consideration to be secretary of Health and Human Services, the White House said. Read more »
Whither the Obama health overhaul? Hundreds of health policy researchers were all ears when senior Obama health adviser Jeanne Lambrew took the stage to speak at the National Health Policy Conference. Read more »
President Obama signed into law a major expansion of health insurance for children, delivering on a Democratic campaign promise and finishing what Democrats tried and failed to do in the last Congress. Read more »
Allowing Americans to get their health coverage from a public health insurance plan would provide better care that costs less while offering real competition to private health insurers, according to a report the Institute for America's Future released. Read more »
Two studies released last week show that while the Medicare Part D drug benefit reduced out-of-pocket spending for seniors and increased their use of essential medicines during its first year in 2006, Part D patients increased their use of less beneficial medications and decreased medication usage when they entered the coverage gap known as the "doughnut hole." Read more »