News outlets offer consumer guides about health insurance. “The health-care overhaul will greatly improve insurance prospects for part-time workers — but not right away,” Kaiser Health News reports…

Donald Berwick, A Nominee Well-Suited To Trim The Fat On Health Care The Washington Post Dr. Berwick is the perfect nominee to help reshape a health-care system that is wasteful and bloated. He has a track record of understanding how to wring inefficiencies out of health-care systems and improve care in the process…

Three months after health reform was enacted, state leaders are beginning to make decisions about implementing the new law, Politico reports: “With the messy politics of health reform, the burden of balancing state budgets and the goal of expanding health coverage, lawmakers at the state level have had mixed reactions…

Roll Call: The death of Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., has jeopardized further the passage of some bills in Congress, including a bill that would extend unemployment benefits. “Democratic leaders have been thwarted numerous times in recent weeks on jobs legislation, despite scaling down the measure dramatically after Republicans and some moderate Democrats balked at adding [...]

The U.S. Supreme Court will not review a challenge to San Francisco’s health plan brought by city businesses. “The justices on Monday denied an appeal from the Golden Gate Restaurant Association of an appeals court ruling upholding the program’s requirement that employers help pay the bill or give their workers health coverage,” The Associated Press [...]