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Primary care providers need training to recognize early symptoms of psychosis

Primary care providers could help people with warning signs of psychosis get critical early treatment and potentially reduce the current burden on emergency departments and inpatient units, finds a study in the journal Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology.

24 Mar 2013

Health insurers urge brokers to brace for sharp increases in premium costs

The Wall Street Journal reports that health insurers are quietly issuing this warning to brokers. Meanwhile, an Ohio insurance company will drop its lawsuit regarding confusion over rules related to the health law's high risk insurance program.

24 Mar 2013

First Edition: March 22, 2013

Today's headlines including stories marking the health law's third birthday and examining progress in regard to its implementation.

22 Mar 2013

States leaders debate health law's Medicaid expansion, push for special deals

Coverage includes reports from Maine, Wisconsin, Indiana, Kansas, New Hampshire and Texas.

22 Mar 2013

Viewpoints: Indian health hit by budget cuts; Health care doesn't work like normal markets; Gov. Rick Scott paying a price for Medicaid expansion

The Congressional Republicans who brought us the mindless budget cuts known as the sequester have shown remarkable indifference to life-sustaining government services, American jobs and other programs.

22 Mar 2013

Experts say health law expands coverage but is too confusing to small businesses

News outlets examine issues related to the health law's implementation including what is going right and wrong; how it might be applied on Capitol Hill and the White House; and confusion among small businesses.

22 Mar 2013

Minnesota exchange legislation signed into law

The measure, termed as "historic" and "controversial" in local media reports, will create the health law's online insurance marketplace. The next planning and implementation steps will now fall to the state's executive branch.

22 Mar 2013

CVS demands employees offer health info or pay more for coverage

Chain drugstore CVS is offering employees a choice: Reveal health info, including their weight, or pay as much as $600 more per year for their health insurance.

22 Mar 2013

First Edition: March 21, 2013

Today's headlines include various reports about what the public knows -- and doesn't know -- about the health law.

21 Mar 2013

Turning three: Progress reports on health overhaul abound

As the law approaches its third birthday, news outlets examine a variety of issues surrounding its implementation.

21 Mar 2013

Viewpoints: N.D. abortion law is 'repressive and extreme;' States identify 'promising' ideas to overhaul medical malpractice

Late last week, the North Dakota legislature passed a bill that would ban a woman from having an abortion as soon as the heartbeat of the fetus is detected, which can happen as early as six weeks into a pregnancy.

21 Mar 2013

Roundup: Calif. deal allows smaller-than-proposed reduction in home health care; Texas senate panel weighs end of life bills

A selection of health policy stories from California, Mississippi, Oregon, Texas, Florida, Kansas and Colorado.

21 Mar 2013

Private insurance twist on Medicaid expansion may make 'Obamacare' palatable to conservatives

Some GOP state lawmakers, especially those who do not favor expanding the health insurance program for the poor, appear to be warming to this notion.

21 Mar 2013

Minnesota authorizes online health insurance marketplace

Gov. Mark Dayton has promised to sign the legislation, which enables his administration to move forward on building the infrastructure necessary for the marketplace to begin enrolling people Oct. 1 -- a tight deadline that officials said would require massive work to meet.

21 Mar 2013

Lowering the costs of healthy foods can improve diets

Lowering the costs of healthy foods in supermarkets increases the amount of fruits, vegetables and whole grain foods that people eat, while also appearing to reduce consumption of nutritionally less-desirable foods, according to research from the RAND Corporation.

20 Mar 2013

First Edition: March 20, 2013

Today's headlines include reports about how the health law's insurance expansion could cause stress among health care providers and strain within the health system.

20 Mar 2013

Arkansas report finds little additional federal costs would result from state's 'private option' for Medicaid expansion

The report, issued by the Arkansas Department of Human Services, found that the plan would add less than 15 percent to federal health care costs in the state.

20 Mar 2013

Viewpoints: Protect the FDA's regulatory efforts; Generic drug 'shenanigans;' Does Ryan not understand the 2012 election?

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in Mutual Pharmaceutical v. Bartlett, a case about the ability of consumers to bring lawsuits against the makers of generic drugs.

20 Mar 2013

Minnesota legislature approves health exchange bill, sends it to governor

Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton has vowed to sign the measure. In Michigan, though, Gov. Rick Snyder warned that time is running out and state lawmakers have until the week's end to approve a partnership exchange.

20 Mar 2013

Passage likely for government-wide spending bill

Even as the bipartisan measure, which would fund the federal government through the current fiscal year, progresses through Congress, the larger deficit debate continues as the parties move forward with starkly different fiscal blueprints.

20 Mar 2013