Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius Thursday urged employers to extend health insurance to children of their employees up to age 26 before a provision in the new law requiring them to do so takes effect later this year, The New York Times reports. Many insurers have already made the change, but many employers [...]

Managed-care firms may be positioned for a rebound on the stock market, The Wall Street Journal reports. “Over the past two years, the Standard & Poor’s 500 managed-care index has fallen about 19%, weighed down by the health overhaul bill, weak economy and specific industry issues…

Commonwealth Fund: The Impact Of Health Reform On Health Spending – This issue brief “projects the effect of national reform on total national health expenditures and the insurance premiums that American families would likely pay…

The House this afternoon passed a bill that would keep doctors from facing a cut in Medicare payments while extending tax and unemployment benefits. But, under pressure from fiscal conservatives, Democrats dropped a COBRA subsidy extension to help newly laid-off pay for health coverage as well as a provision to boost federal aid to state [...]

Today’s roundup of state news includes changes in insurance rates for Kansas state employees, problems with EMT certification in Massachusetts and a hospital merger in the Washington D.C. area. In Oklahoma, “[a] bill that would change how the state administers health insurance for employees now heads to the governor,” The Oklahoman reports…