Congressional Leaders Ask FDA About Coumadin Safety Following Nursing Home Deaths
The bipartisan leadership of the House Energy and Commerce Committee is asking the Food and Drug Administration how it monitors the safety of the popular blood thinner Coumadin, particularly ...
Pennsylvania Gov. Wolf Proposes Pension Overhaul Amid Budget Impasse
Pennsylvania has now gone two months without a budget, and the end of the impasse isn’t in sight.
In an attempt to jump-start negotiations, Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf on Thursday proposed ...
CalPERS Plan Would Require Higher Contributions From Workers Hired After 2013
CalPERS, the largest public pension fund in the U.S., has reportedly spent the past few months working on a plan to invest a higher percentage of its assets into conservative investments ...
Another Chicago Pension Law Could Soon Face Legal Challenge
Chicago’s 2014 pension reform law will soon be heard by the state Supreme Court.
But there’s another, lower-profile law – one that eliminated COLAs for retirees in the Chicago ...
Congress Overwhelmingly Approves Bill Bolstering Medicare Patients’ Hospital Rights
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The U.S. Senate unanimously approved legislation Monday night requiring hospitals across the nation to ...
5 Challenges Facing Medicaid At 50
Kaiser Health News (KHN) is a nonprofit national health policy news service.
A “sleeper” provision when Congress created Medicare in 1965 to cover health care for seniors, ...
Fraud Still Plagues Medicare Drug Program, Watchdog Finds
Charles Ornstein is a senior reporter for ProPublica and a past president of the Association of Health Care Journalists. This story originally appeared on ProPublica.
Fraud and abuse ...
Are Patient Privacy Laws Being Misused to Protect Medical Centers?
Charles Ornstein is a senior reporter for ProPublica and a past president of the Association of Health Care Journalists. This story originally appeared on ProPublica.
In the name ...
Social Security Q&A: Do Social Security Benefits Help the Economy?
Question: These days, with millennials hurting, there is talk of generational “warfare.” Greedy geezers versus unemployed millennials, with the lurking specter of poorly paid millennials ...
Pentagon Officially Endorses Military Retirement Overhaul
The Pentagon for months has held off on taking an official position on the proposed military retirement overhaul, which would change the structure of benefit payouts and introduce ...
