Healthcare Law News

Americans could pay billions of dollars more in new taxes for a few years before they're likely to see significant change in the nation's health care system under legislation that Congress is considering.

Medicaid spending on the clot-busting drug Plavix soared after direct-to-consumer TV ads for the drug began airing -- though not because of any change in prescription trends, researchers said.

Doctors would jab sharp instruments into King Henry VIII's arm and drain blood out of his body.

Most Americans don't expect a health care overhaul to affect their lives directly, but those who worry about the fallout outnumber those expecting to come out ahead, a poll out Tuesday has found.

ALBANY - After originally saying they would take the weekend to complete negotiations and prepare legislation, lawmakers and Gov.

Facing a projected budget gap of as much as $3.5 billion, there is no doubt that the two-year spending plan being prepared by Gov.

Gov. Jay Nixon is resisting a plan that could provide health insurance to thousands of children despite running for office on a pledge to expand health care access.

Cuts to schools, roads and social services were among the hammer blows delivered Monday by Gov.

Governor Mark Parkinson announces another round of cuts to the state's budget, totaling over $258 million.

Failure is not an option on health care, a leading Democratic senator said Monday, even as Republicans turned up the heat on moderates who hold the fate of the legislation in their hands.

A Kansas nurse convicted of enslaving mentally ill residents of a Newton group home was sentenced to 15 years in prison Monday after a federal judge acknowledged the original seven-year term was too short.

Schoolteacher Kinzi Blair makes only $46,000 a year, but she has what many would consider a "Cadillac" health plan, now targeted for a big tax increase by health reformers.

The question Rep. Paul Poirier hears from Vermonters most is, "What the heck are you going to do about these premiums that keep going up and up?" Poirier, a Barre City state representative, has a long memory of health care reform.

Earlier this year, lawmakers agreed to temporarily subsidize health insurance for laid-off workers, providing a big discount for coverage until they got back to work.

The health care reform bill will move forward to the Senate floor for debate following Thanksgiving break.

New York Sen. Charles Schumer boasted of Democrats' unity in pushing their health care reform package over a major procedural hurdle in the Senate Saturday night, saying on CBS' "Face the Nation" Sunday that his party showed "real momentum." "Last night was a very good night for us," Schumer told CBS News Chief Washington Correspondent Bob ...

The Senate is ready to begin a volatile, high-stakes health care debate that's sure to be punctuated by tense and unpredictable battles over some of the most incendiary issues in American politics today.

BATON ROUGE - The Commission on Streamlining Government so far e has ndorsed 134 proposals covering a wide array of issues and they're "not finished yet," the panel's chairman says.

The U.S. Capitol is seen on September 29, 2008 in Washington, DC. WASHINGTON a ' Republican leader Mitch McConnell says the health care overhaul will create a "massive and unsustainable debt" after a vote to advance the legislation in the Senate.

Hooray! Tonight we're one step closer to getting a deficit-neutral health care reform bill that has at least some hope of "bending the health cost curve" in the future.