Oregon Health Experiment Shows That Having Health Insurance Is Different Than Being Healthy
MIT's Amy Finkelstein leads the Oregon Health Experiment, whose results today reiterate an old truth about health insurance. It's not the same as health. A new study out of Oregon tries to answer an old question, and comes up with the same answer. Is having health insurance the same as having

Some could have gaps in medical coverage under new law
Income fluctuations could interrupt coverage for 28 million low-income people who could bounce between Medicaid and insurance exchanges. The key will be ensuring people move smoothly between programs. When the national healthcare law takes full effect next year, millions of Americans risk disrupted health coverage because of common life events: getting married or divorced, having children or ...

Health happenings:
These free or low-cost health-related events are open to the public in Manatee and Sarasota counties.

Wonkbook: Could the scandals help immigration reform?
If Republicans are going to spend the next few months obsessing over scandals, they need to be able to show that they're governing, too. Immigration offers them the best chance to do that.

Outcry leads to easier forms to apply for health care
Outcry leads to easier forms to apply for health care by Ricardo Alonso-zaldivar The Associated Press Published Apr 30, 2013 09:54PM MDT Washington • After a storm of complaints, the Obama administration on Tuesday unveiled simplified forms to apply for insurance under the president’s new health care law. You won’t have to lay bare your medical history but you will have to detail your finances ...

Health care costs, iPads, at center of Eau Claire School Board meeting
Health care costs are once again front and center at a local meeting, along with the purchase of thousands of iPads.

Medicaid has mixed record on improving health for poor, study says
WASHINGTON — As state leaders debate whether to expand their Medicaid programs next year under President Obama’s healthcare law, new research suggests the government insurance plan for the poor has only a mixed record of improving health.        

How Much Should Non-Doctors Do?
One thing is certain as California heads for a new health insurance era under the Affordable Health Care Act, better known as Obamacare: Almost all parts of the state will need more medical professionals to serve the additional 2 million to 4 million newly insured Californians. Should they, could they, mostly be physicians, or should other health care professionals like pharmacists, optometrists ...

Belleville Memorial Hospital takes on nation's largest insurer
Hospital and UnitedHealthcare approach showdown on reimbursement rates.

Paul Krugman’s right: Austerity kills
Austerity kills -- radical cuts destroy economies and lives, and the honest numbers and economics keep proving it