Latest Health Reform News from the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation

The law requires health plans to pay the routine care costs of patients who participate in clinical trials for the prevention, detection and treatment of cancer and other life-threatening conditions.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius could find herself pitted between top Democrats on Capitol Hill and state insurance commissioners over a key section of the health care overhaul.

The group's decision to install its own machine puts it squarely in the middle of a controversy over whether doctors should be allowed to order advanced diagnostic imaging tests — MRIs, CT or PET scans — for Medicare and Medicaid patients in their offices.

President Barack Obama's administration asked U.S. doctors Monday to get on board with health reform legislation passed in March, saying those who embrace change will prosper.

The number of Californians who lost jobs and health insurance probably increased in every county last year, according to a study released Monday by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.

A Thomson Reuters poll of consumer confidence released on Monday shows Americans' confidence in their ability to pay for and access healthcare has fallen by 5 percent since December 2009.

The Obama administration is rewriting new rules on medical privacy after an outpouring of criticism from consumer groups and members of Congress who say the rules do not adequately protect the rights of patients.

Insurance agents and brokers, afraid of being rendered irrelevant in the post-health reform world of simplified insurance shopping, are fighting for their very survival.

A new CNN/Opinion Research poll shows that, despite Democrats' best efforts, portions of their health care bill still remain unpopular.

Homeless and unemployed, Tianne Hill said she dreads getting mail at the city shelter on Guilford Avenue where she lives because it often includes medical bills she can’t pay

Colleges and universities say some rules in the new health law could keep them from offering low-cost, limited benefit student insurance policies – and they’re seeking federal authority to continue offering them.

A survey of big employers finds they expect their health-care costs to rise nearly 9% next year and plan to share some of that burden with employees via higher premiums and higher out-of-pocket limits.

The American public’s confidence in the health care system rose markedly after passage of the sprawling legislative package this year, according to a survey released on Wednesday by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

A Florida judge, meanwhile, removes from the November ballot a proposed amendment blocking the national health reform law.

Key White House allies are dramatically shifting their attempts to defend health care legislation, abandoning claims that it will reduce costs and deficit, and instead stressing a promise to "improve it."

Ruth Titus, a 59-year-old cook from Taos, N.M., leaped at the opportunity in July to sign up for health insurance under a new federally subsidized program for uninsured people with health problems.

For decades, Garry Apelian has seen his annual health care costs go up at his family's carpet and flooring business in Evanston, Ill.

Health centers across the country are lining up for a shot in the arm from the Obama administration: $250 million in federal grants to build clinics and bolster services at existing clinics for low-income patients such as public housing residents, the homeless, seasonal farmworkers and others who struggle to pay for care.

Jennifer Richards of Park Ridge, Ill., is angry that her family's monthly health insurance bill tripled in August to $1,250 after her husband lost his job and health benefits.

Health care in the country is changing, but it's not the wholesale socialization of medicine that Obama administration critics have feared.

The industry group representing insurance agents and brokers told The Hill they're thankful to state regulators for acknowledging agents' role in healthcare and are on the verge of gaining similar support in the Senate.

President Barack Obama's health overhaul hasn't helped Americans feel any more secure about their own medical care, according to a survey to be released Thursday by leading private researchers.

The economic crisis in the United States has reduced the use of routine medical care, and the cutbacks here are much deeper than in countries with universal health care systems, researchers say in a new report.

Massachusetts has almost-universal health coverage — just 4.1% of its residents went without insurance in 2008.

It was a rare moment in the drawn out and highly partisan health care debate: a unanimous vote.

Nearly every day, family medicine specialist Dr. Chip Harris sees patients who delay recommended preventive care because of money.

As if Democrats' new health care law — with its tax hikes, higher costs, and Medicare cuts to establish a new federal entitlement and massive new bureaucracies — isn't already intrusive enough, at its heart lies an individual mandate that forces Americans to buy government-approved health insurance or pay a tax.

Americans bristle when their government orders them to do anything, simply because resentment of authority is as universal in this country as optimism and generosity.

In the increasingly tense wrangling between the insurance industry and state regulators over the definition of what spending can qualify as medical care under the new health law, one of the loudest lobbying voices is a relatively small player: Cigna Corp.

Everywhere you look, Medicaid seems to be in jeopardy.