A proposed Senate Medicare package will be slimmed down from earlier versions and will not deeply cut the private insurers who had been targeted to pay for the bill, according to leaders of the Finance Committee. Read more »
People who use Medicare's stand-alone prescription drug program to help pay for medicines will see an average 17 percent increase in the cost of their coverage next year, a new analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation says. Read more »
If benefits are tailored to meet specific needs of high-risk beneficiaries, Medicare's special-needs plans hold the promise of improving health care and reducing costs, according to a new analysis from Avalere Health. Read more »
Scarred veterans of the failed attempt to overhaul health care in the early 1990s offered their advice to those who would wage the struggle anew, urging them to make passing overhaul legislation the first order of business of the next administration and to avoid specifying every detail needed to change the system in the legislation. Read more »
A national system for sharing electronic medical data is a long way off, suggests a new study, which found that only a fraction of regional attempts at data sharing networks have been successful. Read more »
The National Federation of Independent Business introduced 10 principles to overhaul the heath care system and announced a major research initiative with the Lewin Group, a health care consulting firm. Read more »