Published on May,11 2012 - by Kaiser Health
They outlined their concerns in a letter sent this week to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. Meanwhile, Marilyn Tavenner, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services acting administrator, ...
Published on May,11 2012 - by The Los Angeles Times
LOS ANGELES _ Fashion jewelry design is in the midst of a renaissance the likes of which we haven't seen since the 1980s. And Alexis Bittar blazed the trail. In the last two decades, the New York-based jewelry designer ...
Published on May,10 2012 - by Kaiser Health
If a Medicare staff recommendation is approved, health insurance exchanges may be up for a rebranding. Because, Medicare officials say, consumers understand words like “marketplace” better. “We are recommending not usi ...
Published on May,10 2012 - by Kaiser Health
Letters to the Editor is a periodic KHN feature. We welcome all comments and will publish a selection of those that are relevant. We will edit for space, and we require full names. Among the stories that have drawn c ...
Published on May,01 2012 - by Kaiser Health
Today's health policy headlines include reports from the presidential campaign trail and from states on issues ranging from Massachusetts' payment reform to Idaho's scope-of-practices issues. Kaiser Health News: $1 ...
Published on April,30 2012 - by Kaiser Health
Sudden chest pains landed Diane Zachor in a Duluth, Minn., hospital overnight, but weeks later she had another shock – a $442 bill for the same everyday drugs she also takes at home, including more than a half dozen c ...
Published on April,24 2012 - by The Los Angeles Times
LOS ANGELES _ On a steep slope, above a retaining wall with scrawled warnings ("Stay off, Stay out, Private Property"), Colin Rich begins to unpack black bags full of cameras and gear. The warnings confirm that this is ...
Published on April,24 2012 - by The Daily Telegraph
Alexandra Shulman, the novelist and editor of British Vogue, on her favourite groups of girls in literature I’ve always loved reading about gangs of girls and women. There’s something about that group dynamic which I enj ...
Published on April,22 2012 - by Chicago Tribune
CHICAGO _ After 40 years at Evanston Hospital, Dr. Harry J. Miller retired in 1995. The same year, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. It remained quiet for about a decade, but by 2007 he was in pain, the chemotherapy ...
Published on April,20 2012 - by Forbes
The reporting of the Breivik case in the past few days – as Norwegian justice stoutly refuses to compromise its values by silencing the defendant – and most recently seeing the media of other nations decide that the thi ...