Under pressure from Republican governors to push back the deadline for states to declare whether they’ll run their own exchange, the Obama administration yesterday announced they’d give states another month to submit their letters of intent. The delay came literally one day before the administration’s original deadline, and it came...
While the health care world this week is closely watching which states will sign up to run their own exchanges, governors are also slowly starting to drop small hints about their intentions for the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion. A handful of governors have already said they’ll use the state...
Research! America and other advocates headed to the Hill this week for nearly 60 meetings with House and Senate offices to protect biomedical and health research as lawmakers ponder the impending fiscal cliff.
A new survey of employers from the human-services firm Mercer finds that employer-sponsored health premiums rose at the lowest rate in 15 years during 2012. The rate of growth, 4.1%, was down from about 6% in recent years, and is consistent with recent findings from the Kaiser Family Foundation, which...
The global energy map is changing dramatically, recasting expectations about the role of different countries, regions and fuels in the global energy system over the coming decades, according to the International Energy Agency’s 2012 World Energy Outlook, just released. The boom in North American oil and gas supply is at...
Remember Ten Commandments Judge ROY MOORE? He lost his Chief Justice job about 10 years ago after refusing to obey a federal judge’s order to remove a 5,200 lb. granite Ten Commandments monument from the lobby of the Alabama Judicial building. He won back his chief justice seat on the...