July 2, 2009: National Review Online: Health Care Arrogance
During his ABC infomercial last week, President Obama continued to insist that the type of reform he has in mind would reduce the cost of health care, improve its quality, and enable people to keep their current insurance policies and doctors. He is wrong on all counts. Read More...

July 2, 2009: Obama Addresses Health-Care Reform at Virtual Town Hall Meeting
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Thank you, Northern Virginia. Thank you very much. Thank you. Read More...

July 1, 2009: CMS Releases 2010 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule with 6% Cuts to Medical Oncology
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the proposed rule that includes a general 21.5% to all physicians, an additional 6% to medical oncologists, a 19% cut to radiation oncologists, substantial cuts to imaging, and elimination of consultation codes. Read More...

July 1, 2009: OIG Issues Report on Chemotherapy Administration Reimbursement with Serious Consequences
According to the report, “Although the $60.6 million that we identified in unmatched chemotherapy administration claims is small compared to the $1.9 billion Medicare paid for Part B chemotherapy administration from 2005 to 2007, potential program savings may nevertheless exist if CMS can limit the use of chemotherapy administration codes to qualifying drugs.” Read More...

July 1, 2009: Efforts to Overhaul Health Care Take Familiar Path
House and Senate lawmakers working on a major overhaul of the health-care system have reached a familiar juncture in their effort to reshape one of the largest sectors of the economy. Read More...

July 1, 2009: Kennedy Seeks Public Health-Care Plan That Finances Itself
Senator Edward M. Kennedy’s committee will propose creating a government-backed alternative to private insurance designed to pay for itself after getting federal start-up money. Read More...

July 1, 2009: Senate health panel readies gov't insurance option
Senators on a key committee are putting the finishing touches on a government health insurance option that they hope will win broad support among Democrats and the public. Read More...

July 1, 2009: Poll: Obama health plan has slim majority support
A new national poll suggests that a bare majority of Americans support President Obama's health care plan. Read More...

June 30, 2009: Initial National Priorities for Comparative Effectiveness Research Released
The Institutes of Medicine has released its initial recommendations for comparative effectiveness research. Read More...

June 30, 2009: 'Frequent Fliers' Add Billions to Hospital Bills
Doctors call them frequent fliers. Read More...

June 30, 2009: Obama Steers Health Debate Out of Capital
With Democrats deeply divided over health legislation, President Obama is trying to enlist the nation’s governors and his own army of grass-roots supporters in a bid to increase pressure on lawmakers without getting himself mired in the messy battle playing out on Capitol Hill. Read More...

June 30, 2009: Commentary: Forging a new path to real health care reform
As specific health care reform proposals begin to emerge, the predictable partisan critiques are appearing. Read More...

June 30, 2009: President Obama to answer your health care questions: Youtube's special online town hall event
Got questions? If by now, after following the news and viewing ABC 's recent Health Care Special, you still have not got a firm grasp on the President's health care reform-- it seems you might not be alone. Read More...

June 30, 2009: Obama Steers Health Debate Out of Capital
With Democrats deeply divided over health legislation, President Obama is trying to enlist the nation’s governors and his own army of grass-roots supporters in a bid to increase pressure on lawmakers without getting himself mired in the messy battle playing out on Capitol Hill. Read More...

June 29, 2009: Legislation seeks to improve cancer treatment options
Sens. Arlen Specter (D, Pa.) and Pat Roberts (R, Kan.) introduced a bill June 11 designed to improve the delivery of cancer care treatment to patients. Read More...

Jue 29, 2009: Does Obama Care?
At a town hall meeting in the White House last week, a woman told President Obama about her 105-year-old mother Hazel Homer who had a pacemaker implanted five years ago after first being denied the procedure because she was "too old." Read More...

June 29, 2009: Government insurance option a focal point of health care debate
California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein says she's open to the idea of having the government compete with private companies as a way to help provide health insurance to the nearly 50 million people who lack it. Read More...

June 29, 2009: State of Play: Congress Breaks, White House Motors On
Congress will be out this week, so the White House is filling the health-care space with a series of events — in person and over the Internet — to keep the spotlight on the president’s top domestic priority. Read More...

June 29, 2009: A Health 'Reform' To Regret
"In the beginning," says a character in a Peter De Vries novel, "the earth was without form and void. Read More...

June 29, 2009: Health care: public option to bring competition or monopoly?
Your "Obama won't rule out taxing health benefits" headline [News, June 25] was just slightly inaccurate. Read More...

June 29, 2009: No Colorectal Cancer Decline In U.S. Poor
A drop in colorectal cancer incidence seen throughout the United States has not occurred among people living in poorer communities, researchers said. Read More...

June 29, 2009: Advocates of Universal Coverage Rally on Capitol Hill
The crowd that assembled at a health-care rally on Capitol Hill yesterday seemed a patchwork of brightly colored union t-shirts. Organizers from Health Care for America Now, the campaign that hosted the event, estimated that thousands of people from across the country attended the rally to voice their support for universal coverage. Read More...

June 29, 2009: Health-care overhaul gathers steam
Despite the strains of sky-high costs and public skepticism, the government is moving steadily toward a vast health-care overhaul that would at least partly fulfill a six-decade quest for universal coverage and could rein in soaring costs for everyone else. Read More...

June 29, 2009: Little Hope for G.O.P. to Support Health Bill
Congressional Republicans are finding much to dislike in Democratic health care proposals, illustrating the immense difficulty Democrats face in fashioning an overhaul that can attract enough Republican support to be portrayed as bipartisan. Read More...

June 26, 2009: Analysis: Liberals prod Obama on their health bill
President Barack Obama has learned the lessons of Bill Clinton's failed bid to overhaul the nation's health care system. Too well, in fact, say fellow Democrats angry over his refusal to intervene while a conservative proposal advances in the Senate. Read More...

June 26, 2009: Agreement Reportedly Near on Health Bill
Senators Report Reducing Overall Cost but Not Resolving Issue of 'Public Option' Read More...

June 26, 2009: Obama and Congress Clash on How to Pay for Health Care
It has become the trillion-dollar question: can President Obama find that much in spending cuts and tax increases to keep his campaign promise to overhaul the health care system, without adding to already huge deficits? Read More...

June 26, 2009: Healthcare Town Hall Tanked on the Tube
Here's one way to negate the power of the Obama brand to sell just about anything: add health care talk to the mix. Read More...

June 25, 2009: Obama Health Care Poison Pill
The antidote of public scrutiny is needed. Otherwise, Obama's health care poison pill could kill the private system that makes American medicine the world's best. Read More...

June 25, 2009: Doctor Says New Yorker Used Slanted Stats Against McAllen, TX
James Stewart is an internist in McAllen, TX, a rapidly growing city just a few miles from Mexico, far south of where the border lies in most of the rest of the U.S. Read More...