Julie Rovner appears in the following:
Obama Renews Call For A 'Public Option' In Federal Health Law
Monday, July 11, 2016
5 Things To Consider About The Supreme Court's Decision On Texas Abortion Law
Friday, July 01, 2016
Fallout From Supreme Court Ruling Against Texas Law's Abortion Restrictions
Monday, June 27, 2016
For Doctors-In-Training, A Dose Of Health Policy Helps The Medicine Go Down
Thursday, June 09, 2016
This Med School Teaches Health Policy Along With The Pills
Thursday, June 09, 2016
As Supreme Court Sends Back Birth Control Case, Both Sides Claim Victory
Monday, May 16, 2016
Presidential Candidates Miss the Mark on Healthcare
Monday, May 16, 2016
Selling Health Insurance Across State Lines Sounds Good, But Is It?
Thursday, May 12, 2016
Supreme Court Takes Up Birth Control Access Yet Again
Wednesday, March 23, 2016
Legal Foes In Texas Abortion Case Are Using New Playbooks
Friday, March 04, 2016
The fate of the controversial Texas abortion law is in the hands of the Supreme Court, and a decision isn't expected before June. But how this particular law reached the high court and how its opponents have gathered evidence to strike it down represent fresh twists in an acrimonious national ...
A Voter's Guide To The Health Law Chatter
Saturday, February 06, 2016
Nearly six years after its enactment, the Affordable Care Act remains a hot issue in the presidential race – in both parties.
"Our health care is a horror show," said GOP candidate Donald Trump at the Republican debate in South Carolina in December. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, winner of the ...
Debate Sharpens Over Single-Payer Health Care, But What Is It Exactly?
Friday, January 22, 2016
Health care has emerged as one of the flash points in the Democratic presidential race.
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has been a longtime supporter of a concept he calls "Medicare for All," a health system that falls under the heading of single- payer health care.
Sanders released more details ...
Feds Funding Effort To Tie Medical Services To Social Needs
Tuesday, January 05, 2016
The federal government has announced a $157 million project to help hospitals and doctors link Medicare and Medicaid patients with needed social services that sometimes have a bigger effect on their health than medical interventions.
Even with medical care easily available, patients are often limited in their ability to ...
Kaiser Permanente's New Medical School Will Focus On Teamwork
Friday, December 18, 2015
Thursday's announcement by Kaiser Permanente that it plans to open its own medical school in Southern California in 2019 has attracted a lot of attention in the health care community.
The nonprofit, national provider of managed health care says it plans to train students in its own style of ...
Medical Students See Their Mentors As Marauding Monsters
Tuesday, December 08, 2015
How stressful is medical training? So bad that in a class that encouraged medical students to express their feelings by drawing comics, nearly half of them depicted their supervisors as monsters, researchers say.
Students imagined the workplace as dank dungeons, represented supervising physicians as fiendish, foul-mouthed monsters, and themselves as ...
Medical Students Crunch Big Data To Spot Health Trends
Friday, October 30, 2015
Does Hillary Clinton Have The Prescription For Out-Of-Pocket Health Costs?
Friday, September 25, 2015
While the Republicans running for president are united in their desire to repeal the federal health law, Democrat Hillary Clinton is fashioning her own health care agenda to tackle out-of-pocket costs.
But would her proposals solve the problem?
In addition to defending the Affordable Care Act this week, Clinton ...
Obamacare Enrollment Triggers Drop In The Uninsured Rate
Wednesday, September 16, 2015
The percentage of Americans without health insurance dropped by nearly three percentage points between 2013 and 2014, according the U.S. Census Bureau, from 13.3 to 10.4 percent. Put another way, 8.8 million more people were insured in 2014 than the year before.
The annual study from Census is considered ...
Congress Weighs Budget Cuts For Wide Range Of Health Programs
Tuesday, September 08, 2015
Federal funding for Planned Parenthood will clearly be a flashpoint when Congress returns this week from its summer break.
But the fate of many other health programs, from the National Institutes of Health to efforts to reduce teen pregnancy, hang in the balance as well, as lawmakers decide whether and ...
'Defunding' Planned Parenthood Is Easier Promised Than Done
Wednesday, August 12, 2015
The undercover videos purporting to show officials of Planned Parenthood bargaining over the sale of fetal tissue have made the promise to defund the organization one of the most popular refrains of Republicans running for president.
It's actually a much easier promise to make than to fulfill. But that's not ...