Healthcare Policies

Immigrant healthcare bills stump House group

2013-05-23 16:32:00

WASHINGTON -- Differences over whether immigrants should be deported for fail ing to have health insurance or pay their healthcare bills have stalled a bipartisan group of House lawmakers, who blew past a self-imposed Thursday deadline as they pressed...

If this health plan is 'socialism,' we need more of it

2013-05-23 18:18:00

So this is what socialism looks like: Private companies competing for people's business in an open marketplace. Californians got their first glimpse Thursday of what insurers plan to charge for coverage to be offered next year to about 5 million state...

House feels the heat on immigration reform

2013-05-22 17:07:00

WASHINGTON — Committee approval of a sweeping Senate immigration overhaul has put pressure on the House, where Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) and top leaders have been pushing a bipartisan group of lawmakers to produce its own bill. House...

UnitedHealth, Aetna and Cigna opt out of California insurance exchange

2013-05-22 17:59:00

Some prominent health insurers, including industry giant UnitedHealth Group Inc., are not participating in California's new state-run health insurance market, possibly limiting the number of choices for millions of consumers. UnitedHealth, the nation'...

UC hospital strikers' numbers to be decided by court

2013-05-19 15:40:00

Patient care workers at the University of California's medical centers plan to stage a two-day strike next week, but the number taking part will be decided Monday in Sacramento County Superior Court. A judge is expected to rule on a request for a...

Court will decide how many UC workers can strike

2013-05-17 19:07:00

Patient care workers at the University of California’s medical centers plan to stage a two-day strike next week, but the number taking part will be decided Monday in Sacramento County Superior Court. A judge is expected to rule on a request for...

L.A. worries about immigration reform's cost to taxpayers

2013-05-12 08:37:00

As Congress takes up immigration reform, Los Angeles County officials are voicing concerns that local taxpayers will be "left holding the bag" to pay for the brunt of healthcare and other services for the multitudes of immigrants who apply for...

L.A. County officials worried about costs of immigration overhaul

2013-05-11 17:05:00

WASHINGTON — Few regions will absorb the impact of future immigration reforms more than Los Angeles County, home to an estimated 1.1 million people in the country illegally, one-tenth of the nation's total. As the Senate Judiciary Committee...

Healthcare puts Jerry Brown, Capitol Democrats on different sides

2013-05-10 19:10:00

SACRAMENTO — With California's deficit wiped out and its economy starting to hum, this was to be a year when Gov. Jerry Brown was free of the budget logjams that have paralyzed the Capitol. But instead, the governor has a fight on his hands...

Hospital prices diverge wildly, U.S. data show

2013-05-08 18:33:00

New Medicare data reveal wildly varying charges among the nation's hospitals for 100 of the most common in-patient treatments and procedures, calling into question medical billing practices just as U.S. officials try to rein in rising costs. The...

California calls for more disclosure of medical costs [video chat]

2013-05-09 12:06:00

California officials are looking to build on a federal effort to disclose more healthcare pricing information to consumers. Medicare officials released new data this week that showed wildly different hospital charges across the nation for 100 of the...

Medicare charges vary widely at California hospitals, new data show

2013-05-08 07:35:00

Federal officials are shedding new light on how much hospital bills vary across Southern California and the rest of the country. Medicare released pricing information Wednesday for more than 3,300 U.S. hospitals on the top 100 procedures and...

Sylvia Bernal (middle) discusses plans with Alliance Health Care Foundation representatives at a Heffernan Memorial Healthcare District office Thursday in Calexico.

2013-04-05 02:01:00

Federal officials say they recovered nearly $8 for every dollar spent on healthcare fraud investigations in 2012.

2013-02-11 09:38:01

Steven R. Olson, a senior partner in the Health Care Practice of Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, has been named President and CEO of Delta Dental Plans Association, which, through its 39 member companies, provides dental benefits programs to more than 60 million Americans in more than 95,000 employee

2013-01-14 00:00:00