Health Care

President George W. Bush’s April decision to implement the hotly contested Medical Privacy Act shocked consumer groups and industry experts.

When Medicare was established in 1965, pharmaceutical drugs represented a small part of medical expenditures.

A mature Harry Potter has traveled through the Outerland, to the banks of the Hogwash. From here he can see his final destination: the Ministry of the Village.

A new national survey, sponsored by the National Association of Health Underwriters (NAHU) and co-sponsored by the Healthcare Leadership Council (HLC), National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), and U.S.

Republicans have never been big fans of reforming the health insurance system, nor have many of them ever taken the time to learn much about it.

Lower-income senior citizens would get help right away with routine and catastrophic prescription drug expenses under a Medicare reform measure outlined in late March by the Alexandria, Virginia-based Galen Institute.

According to the American Opinions on Reforming Medicaid survey, conducted in August 1995, 72 percent of Americans cannot afford to pay the high cost of long-term health care (LTC) without financial assistance.

Legislation proposed by the only physician-member of the Minnesota state legislature has raised red flags among some vaccine and health policy groups. Rep. Richard Mulder, M.D.

Patient privacy is a right long advocated by the American Medical Association (AMA). Establishing federal privacy protections is a worthwhile endeavor. Yet, consensus on the details has proven to be extremely difficult.

The Health Insurance Association of America (HIAA), an insurance trade organization, has partnered with the American Hospital Association (AHA) and Families USA, a liberal advocacy group that supports government-run health care, in a compromise

The Health Policy Consensus Group is a task force of leading health care economists and health policy analysts, including researchers at the major market-oriented think tanks.

Many legislators believe they are assisting senior citizens by interfering in the normal market process that establishes prescription drug prices. History, however, provides evidence to the contrary.

President George W. Bush has told Congress he supports a market-based approach to health care reform.

Misgivings about President George W. Bush's ideas on health care are turning into alarm as the new administration unfolds.

Like used-car salesmen, politicians in Washington, D.C. have taken the flawed, old model of the patients' bill of rights and slapped a new sticker on it in an effort to fool unwitting buyers. The legislation has always been a lemon.

Small Business Groups Work DC BeatThe National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) is busy in Washington, supporting association health plans, expanded MSAs, and full deductibility of premiums for the self-employed, according to Al Crenshaw in the

Last year a sophisticated Internet hacker took control of the University of Washington Medical Center’s network and downloaded the admissions records of 4,000 cardiology patients.

Arizona According to an opinion issued by Arizona Attorney General Janet Napolitano, the state’s tobacco settlement money must be used for health care programs included in the Proposition 204 initiative passed by voters— not to supplant funding for

The United States does not have a properly functioning market for health care, and the financing system needs to be reformed. The market is distorted by a tax policy that is mistargeted, miscalibrated, and open-ended.

The Health Care Financing Administration (the agency that runs Medicare and Medicaid) can waive some federal requirements for Medicaid eligibility to allow states to experiment with new ways of delivering health care to the poor.

As one of his first major acts as the Bush administration’s new Health and Human Services Secretary, former Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson has postponed the effective date of privacy regulations called for by the Health Insurance Portability and

Did you know that the federal government is making new rules about who can look at your personal medical records? These rules will make it easier for a wide range of individuals and groups to see your medical information . . . without your knowledge.

President George W. Bush and the 107th Congress face important decisions about how to fix the U.S. health care system so that all Americans have access to quality health insurance coverage.

The issue of mandatory vaccination programs for infants and children is coming to a head. Battle lines are being drawn.