This week Massachusetts officials released the latest data from their 2010 state insurance survey. The survey provided continued good news: overall, 98.1 percent of all Massachusetts residents have health coverage. This compares to a national insurance ra

Here at the New England Alliance for Children Health (NEACH), an initiative of Community Catalyst, we’re excited to announce the release of Insuring New England’s Children: An Advocacy Success Story. This new publication chronicles the New England states’

The 2010 American Medical Student Association (AMSA) Scorecard is out today, and for the first time since the student group began assessing conflict-of-interest policies four years ago, one half of all U.S. medical schools received an A or B (78 out 152).

An investigative outfit's consolidation and analysis of payments that drug companies made to doctors has refocused attention on state efforts to shine light on the financial ties between doctors and drugmakers. Currently three states—Minnesota, Massachuse

Of the fourteen plus lawsuits brought against the federal government challenging the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), one has succeeded in winning the favor of a Virginia judge. Judge Henry Hudson of the US District Court for the Easter

Recently, a blizzard of deficit and federal debt reduction plans has emerged from across the political spectrum. Many of them—especially those coming from the center/right—propose major changes in the benefits and/or financing of Medicare and Medicaid in

Thirty-nine percent increase in California. Fifty-six percent increase in Michigan. Forty-seven percent increase in Connecticut. Twenty-one percent increase in New Mexico. In recent years consumers have faced unprecedented hikes in their health insurance

Earlier today, Congress passed a law to avert a scheduled 25 percent cut in Medicare reimbursement rates for doctors. While preventing those cuts is critical to ensuring access to needed care for America’s seniors, the way Congress paid for the “doc-fix”

(cross-posted from PostScript) Among the food that has been recalled for contamination risks since the 111th Congress convened: -Eggs (500,000,000+) -spinach -peanuts/peanut butter -pistachios -tomatoes -jalapenos -70,000 lbs of cheese Among contaminated