Former Senate Leaders Launch Health Reform Project that will recommend U.S. health care system reforms to Congress and the administration. -April 17, 2008
New Website Helps Patients Shop for Hospital Care Based On Quality and Price. -March 28, 2008
OPM Gives Health Insurers an Earful on Hearing Benefits. -March 20, 2008
Aetna to Offer an Online Service That Helps Patients Link Records and Research. -March 12, 2008
House Approves Bill on Mental Health Parity - most group health plans are to provide more generous coverage for treatment of mental illnesses, comparable to what they provide for physical illnesses. -March 6, 2008
Oregon Conducts Health Insurance Lottery - Oregon is conducting a one-of-a-kind lottery, and the prize is health insurance. -March 4, 2008
Louisiana to Revamp Mental Health Plan, which has been in disarray since Hurricane Katrina devastated the area. -February 26, 2008
Medicare News: Growth in National Health Expenditures Projected to Remain Steady Through 2017. -February 26, 2008
Health Reform Lessons Learned - Veterans of 1993-94 Offer Advice to Today's Reformers; and, Can We Contain Health Care Costs Without Compromising Quality? -January 18 & 28, 2008
Healing a Troubled Mind Takes More Than a Pill - Recovering from mental illness is rarely that simple. -February 10, 2008
Proposals to Force More Involuntary Treatment Stir Debate - In Virginia's mental health system, they're called "consumers," but some of them call themselves survivors. -February 7, 2008
Requiring Individuals to Buy Insurance Essential to Universal Coverage, Study Says. -January 31, 2008
Institute of Medicine Urges System To Evaluate Health Care Treatments. -January 25, 2008
U.S. Rate of Preventable Deaths Highest Among Industrialized Countries, Study Says. -January 14, 2008
Britney's Law? Not so crazy. - The pop singer's recent episode could prompt a much-needed critique of California's mental healthcare policies. -January 10, 2008
Health Spending Exceeded Record $2 Trillion in 2006 and has nearly doubled in the last decade, amounting to an average of $7,000 a person. -January 8, 2008
Congressional Research Service Traces History of Mental Health Parity Legislation. -January 7, 2008
Congress Approves Extension Of Current Mental Health Parity Law. -December 21, 2007
Insurers Seek Bigger Reach in Coverage - the insurance industry plans to propose a series of steps the companies say would let more individuals obtain coverage. -December 19, 2007
Mr. Kaine's Budget - Lean, ambitious and already under political attack. -December 18, 2007
Study Sees Need for Out-of-Network Care In Implementation of Mental Health Parity. -December 18, 2007
Kaine to Overhaul Mental Health System - $40 Million Plan Parallels Ideas From Panel After Massacre at Virginia Tech. -December 14, 2007
Public's Health Care Preferences Elusive - Americans support the principle of extending coverage to millions of people, but only so long as they are not negatively affected. -December 11, 2007
One-Fifth of Americans Lack Adequate Access to Health Care, U.S. Agency Says. -December 4, 2007
Report Finds U.S. Health Stagnating Or Declining, After Improvements in 1990s. -November 7, 2007
Survey of Seven Nations Finds U.S. Patients Report More Medical Errors, Other Problems. -November 1, 2007
AAPD Signs on to Letter to Congress to ensure a right to health privacy in electronic systems and databases; includes AAPD position that user interfaces must be accessible so that health consumers with disabilities can individually manage health records to ensure privacy. -October 18, 2007
Getting Access to Health Care - health care providers are required to comply with the ADA and other federal laws, many have been slow to follow through. -September 17, 2007
Medical Care Often Inaccessible to Disabled Patients - A basic part of a doctor's office: the exam table. What if you weren't able to climb up on that hard, plastic table with the crinkly, white paper? -September 13, 2007
Supermarket to Offer Free Antibiotics - Publix supermarket chain said it will make seven common prescription antibiotics available for free. -August 7, 2007
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