‘After 240 years of constitutional freedom, will Americans, at last, lose the right to be left alone by their government? We’ll know the answer when the Supreme Court hands down its ruling this summer.’ — Paul Guppy, Washington Policy Center
What are the major arguments concerning the individual mandate? Medicaid expansion? That Anti-injunction Act? What is the Anti-injunction Act? And what’s severability? Stuart Taylor, Jr. answers these and other questions about this weeks Supreme Court arguments.
KHN compares progress of the health law’s implementation to original projections from 2010.
Weekend Reading: Health-care reform and women’s health. Our drug shortage. The science of midwifery. How the Supreme Court will rule on health-care reform law?
The White House has released a three-and-half minute video defending the Affordable Care Act.
Your parents still might be willing to do your laundry, but if you’re over 18, they can’t make your medical decisions. Are you ready?
Nearly 60 percent of the public expects the Supreme Court justices to depend more on personal ideology than a legal analysis of the individual mandate in making their ruling on the health-care reform law.
A pick of the best articles about health from this week: Rick Santorum’s war on contraception, the “Fat Trap” that makes is so hard to lose weight, and even with health care reform millions will remain uninsured.
The two Republican candidates were strongly for the individual mandate . . . before they were against it.
Why do mothers seek abortions late in their pregnancies? How much detail should journals provide about killer flu research? Obama originally opposed the individual mandate and Romney supported it – now it’s the other way round. What’s up with that?
How doctors die (Hint: Not like the rest of us). Can vaccines end cancer? Newt Gingrich’s health-care heresies. Should your doctor take money from drug companies? — This week’s top stories.
States will be given wide latitude to decide what “essential benefits” insurers must offer in their health policies come 2014.
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Lost in translation: Lack of trained interpreters can lead to medical errors
Interpreter services at hospitals and other medical settings are often inadequate, forcing family members, including children, to step in, or the task falls to medical staff members who may not speak the language well.
Some insurers deny ER coverage to people who have been drinking
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Travel insurance can protect your wallet — and your health on vacation
Think your regular health insurance policy will cover you if you get into medical trouble overseas?
Don’t bet on it.
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