This weekend Speaker Boehner rejected President Obama's call for a "grand bargain" that would include both cuts to Medicare and Medicaid (and Social Security) along with tax increases to reduce the projected federal debt by about $4 trillion. Instead, Mr

This blog was originally posted on PostScript. The shipment of your birthday present from distribution to delivery can be tracked. A sticker in the grocery store tells you where your pineapple was grown. A tag in your t-shirt says where it was made. Your

The shipment of your birthday present from distribution to delivery can be tracked. A sticker in the grocery store tells you where your pineapple was grown. A tag in your t-shirt says where it was made. Your new car lists where its component parts are fro

Earlier today, Community Catalyst joined 118 groups representing consumers, people of faith, and health care providers in 34 states to raise our collective voices in support of Medicaid. Together, we sent a response to the letter that Senator Hatch and Co

Watching today’s Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing on “PDUFA: Medical Innovation, Jobs and Patients” was a little like watching a tennis match and a hockey game at the same time: It was possible to keep track of where the ball and puck were, but yo

A new study today, the most robust of its kind in 40 years, concludes that Medicaid makes a big difference for its enrollees. The study, authored by the National Bureau of Economic Research, documented that Medicaid recipients, on average, were more like

Last month, we told you about the public availability this year of critical information on hospitals’ Schedule H tax forms regarding their billing, financial assistance and community benefit programs. However, three weeks ago, the IRS announced that it is

Virginia Herold is the executive officer of the California State Board of Pharmacy. In her role there, Herold works closely with and advises the 13 Board of Pharmacy members in the development of policy and in the administration of the board’s enforcement

While there is widespread agreement that Medicare is on a runaway train to threatened bankruptcy , there is little agreement about how to put it back on track. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) includes many provisions aimed at containing Medicare costs – fr