The third post in our series highlighting the benefits of the Affordable Care Act. Most of us don’t think much about the fine print in our health insurance, especially something like a lifetime cap on our benefits. But the majority of us – an estimated 55

A discussion draft released yesterday by members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee would institute important new protections and checkpoints in the prescription drug supply and give the FDA broad new powers and resources to help ensure that unsaf

This is the second in a series of posts on the benefits of the Affordable Care Act. As you’ve probably seen over the course of the last few days, in celebration of the six month mark since the signing of the Affordable Care Act, Community Catalyst is high

This week marks the six month milestone of the passage of the Affordable Care Act. This is the first in a series of posts on the benefits of the law for the public. It’s almost Sept. 23 – the six month milestone of the Affordable Care Act, and state advoc

How are we going to change the cost curve in health care and provide the highest quality of care? Dr. Bob Master – one of the country’s leading health care visionaries - has a great answer. Six years ago, Bob came to Community Catalyst as a fellow of the

Are the muckrakers moving more slowly than their subjects in the medical field when it comes to pharmaceutical conflicts of interest? That’s one way to look at two recent stories that indicate that the press establishment may be increasingly confronted wi

Through the collective efforts of advocates of many different stripes across the country, we staved off an attempt yesterday to gut the new Prevention and Public Health Fund, a critical part of national health reform. An amendment from U.S. Senator Mike J

Despite taking a beating in the Florida Republican primary for Governor, Attorney General Bob McCollum(R) continues to pursue a legal strategy against the federal government. Hopeful that the nationwide legal strategy against health reform would win him t

In case you missed it, we wanted to call your attention to this post over at Say Ahhh!, the children’s health policy blog run by one of our partners, the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families. In the post, Eugene Lewit and Liane Wong of t