Healthcare Law News

Gregory Burnette treats a few babies with fevers, a few sprained ankles and sinus infections and, these days, plenty of flu sufferers.

Prime-time television took on a different meaning when the U.S. Senate met in a rare Saturday night session to move along the health-care reform debate in this country.

NE ADOPTION AGONY, 1ST LD-WRITETHRU OMAHA, Neb. - A northeast Nebraska man continues fighting for custody of his son nearly five years after he alleges a welfare worker allowed his newborn son to be taken for adoption by an Alabama couple without his permission.

Just before his family left town for Thanksgiving, Don Hall - an Ohio man who was laid off from his job as a manufacturing supervisor last year - wrote a $763.81 check to his health insurance company for his December payment.

The national health reform bill passed by the House last month and the Senate version to be debated in early December pose no threat to current health care benefits provided to military families, retirees or veterans, say advocates for these beneficiaries as well as congressional committee staffs.

Two familiar Nebraska agencies have won state contracts to create new services for families of troubled children.

By Ken Terry Nov 27, 2009 In one of the best "glass-half-full" commentaries on the Senate's healthcare reform bill , The Atlantic 's Ronald Brownstein interviews several health policy experts who concur that the cost controls in the measure could potentially be effective.

When you knowingly pay someone to lie to you, we call the deceiver an illusionist or a magician.

Republican Sen. Jon Kyl said Monday that President Barack Obama should delay trying to reform the health care system and focus on job creation.

Fri Nov 27, 2009 5:48am EST - Singer Nick Jonas testifies at the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearing about Type 1 Diabetes Research on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 24, 2009.

ALBANY - Health-care groups said Wednesday that while Gov. David Paterson's revised deficit-reduction plan would not cause as large of a loss in federal Medicaid funding, it would lead to layoffs and service cuts and possibly even closing of some institutions.

Federal and state prosecutors are each pursuing cases after a joint investigation into alleged Medicaid fraud against two women from Barre and Windsor.

Who might be the next victim of Obamacare? Gun owners. Government health care reform "will most likely dump your gun-related health data into a government databasea that can preclude you from owning firearms,a said Gun Owners of America, in an email notification to their members, shortly before the health care debate on Saturday.

One of the White House's biggest boasts about the health care legislation now moving through Congress is that it should reduce health care costs for both government and society.

WASHINGTON - Is Congress going through the ordeal of trying to enact health care reform only to have one of the main pillars - requiring individuals to obtain insurance - declared unconstitutional? An interesting debate for a constitutional law seminar.

The Obama administration pushed back Wednesday against claims that it's not doing enough to slow the growth of health care costs, a topic senators will debate heavily in coming weeks.

ALBANY -- Legislative leaders Tuesday said their staff would work over the weekend to digest a revised proposal from Gov.

Gov. M. Jodi Rell has unveiled a plan she says will erase Connecticut's latest budget deficit of nearly $470 million.

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.