Health Insurance

Fear not, the IRS won't be collecting your medical records

2013-05-24 14:30:00

Led by Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), a number of House Republicans asserted this week that the newly scandalized Internal Revenue Service, in its role as Obamacare enforcer, would collect sensitive personal medical records. That was one of the latest...

Insurers limit doctors, hospitals in state-run exchange plans

2013-05-24 18:23:00

California's health insurance rates for a new state-run marketplace came in lower than expected this week, but one downside for many consumers will be far fewer doctors and hospitals to choose from. People who want UCLA Medical Center and its doctors in...

California picks 13 health plans for state-run insurance market

2013-05-23 09:36:00

After weeks of negotiations, California said it has selected 13 health plans for a new state-run insurance marketplace where as many as 5 million people will shop for coverage next year. Officials at Covered California, the state agency implementing the...

UCLA surgeons using Vine, Instagram to video tweet brain surgery

2013-05-23 11:01:00

Even as hospitals struggle with keeping patient information secure in the digital world, more and more are finding that some patients are willing to publicly share intimate moments. UCLA’s Health System became the latest healthcare provider to...

Good news on health costs

2013-05-24 00:00:00

The state's new health insurance exchange gave an encouraging preview Thursday of the sweeping effects that the 2010 federal healthcare law will have on consumers next year, announcing lower-than-expected prices for individual policies. Still, the success...

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...

New California health insurance rates unveiled

2013-05-23 17:59:00

Amid anxiety over rising costs from the federal healthcare law, California received better-than-expected insurance rates for a new state-run marketplace, but many consumers still won't be spared from sharply higher premiums. Three years after...

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his fangirls

2013-05-22 00:00:00

OK, so Dzhokhar Tsarnaev stands accused of blowing up three people, injuring 282 more and shooting to death an MIT campus police officer. He's also got fans, or more accurately, he's got fangirls, thousands of them. These besotted double-X chromosome-...

Why the medical device tax needs to stay

2013-05-21 20:43:00

The chief drawback of a law as complex as the Affordable Care Act, the health insurance reform measure passed in 2010, is that it provides self-interested opponents a multitude of places to stick a wedge in and hammer away. But you'd be hard-pressed...

Some could have gaps in medical coverage under new law

2013-05-20 04:37:00

When the national healthcare law takes full effect next year, millions of Americans risk disrupted health coverage because of common life events: getting married or divorced, having children or taking on a second job. As their family incomes change,...

Disgraced ex-congressman Anthony Weiner running for New York mayor

2013-05-22 00:18:00

NEW YORK — Former Rep. Anthony Weiner, �whose career imploded in a rash of raunchy tweets two years ago, announced in a YouTube video late Tuesday that he is running for mayor of New York. “I made some big mistakes and I know I let a lot...

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'...

Dave Gendel, special projects manager at a nursing care management company, leads chants during a rally of nursing home workers at the James R. Thompson Center calling for an end to state cuts in Medicaid funding.

2013-05-13 00:00:00

Princess Johnston, director of activities for the Jackson Square Nursing Center, shouts in support of a speaker during a rally at the James R. Thompson Center calling for an end to state cuts in Medicaid funding.

2013-05-13 00:00:00

Steve Blye has joined Legat Architects as senior design director and associate director of health care. In the former role, Blye will lead planning efforts, collaborative design charrettes and conceptual development of a variety of faciliies.

2013-04-19 00:00:00