Healthy Eating a Privilege for the Rich?

by | Aug 4, 2011 | Learn

The AP reports on a new study published in the journal Health Affairs that says the government should do more to help consumers eat healthier. The story begins: A healthy diet is expensive and could make it difficult for Americans to meet new U.S. nutritional...

New birth-control rules may shake up behavior

by | Aug 4, 2011 | Learn

Writing for MarketWatch, Kristen Gerencher writes that the new rules requiring insurance coverage for contraceptives may have significant ramifications in terms of the social costs of unwanted pregnancies and even on children’s health. Here are a few excerpts:...

Coverage with no copay extended to birth control

by | Aug 1, 2011 | Learn

The AP reports: A half-century after the advent of the pill, the Obama administration on Monday ushered in a change in women’s health care potentially as transformative: coverage of birth control as prevention, with no copays. Services ranging from breast pumps...

Delivering Doctors to small towns and rural areas

by | Jul 29, 2011 | Learn

The New York Times reports on an innovative program in Kansas: This state, so sparsely populated in parts that five counties have no doctors at all, has struggled for years to encourage young doctors to relocate to rural communities, where health problems are often...

Direct primary care: a medical home without insurance?

by | Jul 27, 2011 | Learn

Tech Crunch, the technology blog, reports on MedLion, a new startup in California: MedLion makes a Medical Home available to virtually anyone regardless of their income. This will help the U.S. match other parts of the world that outpace the U.S. in prevalence of...