Local News: Seattle, WA 

 | 

Sign Up

 | 

Sign In

Healthcare Law News Editors

News Widget

Display the Healthcare Law news headlines on your website.

Get the Topix Headlines Widget

Share & bookmark

RSS icon mobile icon

Healthcare Law News

News on Healthcare Law continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.

1 hr ago | The Modesto Bee

Obama takes Cabinet secretaries out to play golf

The White House said Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and outgoing Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood joined the president Saturday at Andrews Air Force Base.

Comment?

Related Topix: US Military, Andrews Air Force Base, US Air Force, Law

6 hrs ago | The Northwestern in Oshkosh

Cost of Walker's Medicaid plan increases by $73M

The cost of Gov. Scott Walker's plan to reject federally funded Medicaid expansion and instead tighten income eligibility for the program has gone up.

Comment?

Related Topix: Scott Walker, US Governors, Law

9 hrs ago | FoodNavigator

Former FDA official on GMO labeling: 'Science doesn't always win'

Whether the food industry likes it or not, when it comes to GMO labeling, the " train appears to have left the station", according to former FDA associate commissioner of foods Dr David Acheson.

Comment?

Related Topix: Law, Food and Drug Administration, US News, Barbara Boxer, US Politics, US Senate, Democrat, Peter DeFazio, US House of Representatives, Life, Food, Nutrition

13 hrs ago | US News & World Report

Oregon Health Study Gives an Inaccurate Picture of Medicaid

Imagine an academic study that is so well-timed, so relevant to a current policy debate, that it's widely cited to support a major policy decision.

Comment?

Related Topix: Law, Medicaid, Health, Oregon Government, Oregon, Health Insurance, Opinion

17 hrs ago | The Courier

Arkansas House speaker won't run for governor

House Speaker Davy Carter said Friday he won't run for Arkansas governor next year, passing on an uphill fight for the Republican nomination made steeper by his support for a health insurance expansion and comments urging his party to move away from social issues.

Comment?

Related Topix: US Politics, Representative Eric "Rick" Crawford, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Representative Rick Crawford, Mike Ross, Democrat, Law, Medicaid, Health

Fri May 17, 2013

Fox 23

Fallin urges Okla. Legislature for health care fix

Gov. Mary Fallin is proposing a last-minute legislative change to the state's Insure Oklahoma program that would direct $50 million in state tobacco taxes to pay for more than 9,000 Oklahomans who are expected to lose their health insurance under the program.

Comment?

Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Representative Mary Fallin, Republican, US House of Representatives, Law, Mary Fallin, US Governors, Oklahoma Government, Oklahoma, Health Insurance

The Miami Herald

GOP hopes IRS scandal will snag health care law

Political scandals have strange ways of causing collateral damage, and Republicans are hoping the furor over federal tax enforcers singling out conservative groups will ensnare their biggest target: President Barack Obama's health care law.

Comment?

Related Topix: Law, Tax, US News, US Politics, Barack Obama, Representative Michele Bachmann, Republican, US House of Representatives, Tom Davis

Michigan Radio

In this morning's news: Michigan Medicaid expansion, charter schools, Flint school layoffs

Legislation that will determine the future of Michigan Medicaid is at a standstill.

Comment?

Related Topix: Law, Education Etc.

KRCR

Health care official used to lead IRS office

Sarah Hall Ingram, who heads the implementation of the Affordable Care Act at the IRS, formerly led the agency's tax-exempt/government entities division, the same division that's now taking heat for targeting conservative groups in the past few years.

Comment?

Related Topix: Law

WABI-TV Bangor

Republicans and Democrats Begin Sparring Over Paying Hospitals - Expanding Medicaid Coverage

Augusta - House Speaker Mark Eves says a Democratic proposal to expand Medicaid while paying off hospital debt is a deal that Governor LePage can't refuse.

Comment?

Related Topix: US News, Law, Medicaid, Health, US Governors, Paul LePage, Maine, Maine Government

Thu May 16, 2013

Brandon Sun

House GOP pushes full repeal of Obama's health care law - 37th vote to scale back or kill it

One more time, with feeling! The Republican-led House voted yet again Thursday to repeal President Barack Obama's health care law, knowing full well that won't stop it.

Comment?

Related Topix: Law, US News, US Politics, Representative Michele Bachmann, Republican, US House of Representatives, John Boehner, Barack Obama

Mississippi Business Journal

Budget writer: Medicaid taking away from education funding

Funding for education is falling short because Medicaid is devouring a larger share of state money than it did a few years ago, a top Mississippi budget writer says in a letter to teachers and school administrators.

Comment?

Related Topix: Law, Family, Adolescents and Pre-Teens, US News, Haley Barbour, US Governors, US Politics, Barack Obama

Fairfax Times

Party to select its nominees for statewide races Saturday

Del. Rob Bell is a former prosecutor who has represented the Charlottesville area in the House of Delegates since 2002, although he notes that he is a Northern Virginia native, growing up in Springfield.

Comment?

Related Topix: Charlottesville, VA, Law

Cancer Treatment

FDA Approves New Prostate Cancer Drug

Today the US Food and Drug Administration is announcing that it has approved Xofigo to treat men with symptomatic late-stage, castration-resistant prostate cancer that has spread to bones but not to other organs.

Comment?

Related Topix: Law, Prostate Cancer, Food and Drug Administration, Health, Medicine, Hematology, Oncology

WCTI

NC House abortion bill gets initial approval

A bill broadening restrictions on abortion through the federal health care law and so-called conscience protections has gained initial approval from the North Carolina House.

Comment?

Related Topix: Law

New Hampshire Public Radio -

Cloning, Stem Cells Long Mired In Legislative Gridlock

After President Obama overturned Bush-era policy restricting federal funding of embryonic stem cell research in 2009, Nebraska Right to Life led a protest of the research outside the University of Nebraska regents' meeting.

Comment?

Related Topix: Law, Stem Cell Research, Science / Technology, Nebraska Government, Nebraska, Genetics, Medicine, US Politics, Senator Roger Wicker, US News, US Senate, Republican

Wed May 15, 2013

Reuters

Analysis: Obama climate agenda faces Supreme Court reckoning

With a barrage of legal briefs, a coalition of business groups and Republican-leaning states are taking their fight against Obama administration climate change regulations to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Comment?

Related Topix: Law, US News, US Supreme Court, Environmental Law, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Texas, Widener University

The Modesto Bee

Senate confirms former nurse to run Medicare

A former intensive care nurse with a businesslike approach to a politically divisive public policy area won Senate approval Wednesday to run Medicare and other major health insurance programs.

Comment?

Related Topix: Law, Medicare, Health, Health Insurance, Medicaid, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Eric Cantor, Republican, US House of Representatives

The Indian Express

Four Indian Americans charged with healthcare fraud

Four Indian Americans, including a physician and three co-owners of a health clinic from Chicago, have been charged with healthcare fraud estimated to be running into millions of dollars.

Comment?

Related Topix: Park Ridge, IL, Law

WTLV

Adam Putnam quietly launches re-election campaign

Putnam, a former member of Congress, last month quietly opened a campaign account for the 2014 election.

Comment?

Related Topix: Republican, US House of Representatives, US Politics, US News, Adam Putnam, Law