Private Health Care

Friday was a big day for private-sector health care specialty services in Hagerstown and Washington County. Dozens of people, including employees, doctors, guests and elected officials, attended a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the opening of...

The U.S. Census Bureau released new data today that showed more people now have health insurance. The data looked at coverage from 2011. Here are highlights taken from a census bureau press release. - The number of people with health insurance...

A Volusia County chiropractor accused of prescribing painkillers and muscle relaxers to patients using another doctor's name pleaded guilty to federal charges in Orlando on Tuesday. Joseph Wagner, who is prohibited from prescribing controlled...

Maryland secured $123 million of federal funding to launch its health insurance exchange, the cornerstone of President Barack Obama's health care reform, state officials announced Thursday. The money will help build the marketplace, now formally called...

Connecticut's largest group of doctors received federal approval and a $75.8 million federal loan to start a new consumer-oriented health plan that will compete directly with health insurers. The federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued...

James Burdick sanctimoniously dismisses the legitimate concerns of opponents of the Affordable Care Act and universal care as "dogmatic bluster" ("Universal care on the horizon," July 13). He then goes on to sugarcoat the rationing of health care, stating...

 LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A rift among Michigan’s Republican lawmakers means Gov. Rick Snyder won’t get the House approval he wants Wednesday to start work on a website for purchasing health insurance that’s required under the federal...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Republican lawmakers want more questions answered before they’ll consider giving GOP Gov. Rick Snyder approval to start work on a website for purchasing health insurance required under the federal health care law,...

Twenty million Americans live at or below the federal poverty line and are uninsured. The Supreme Court ruling on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) could leave many without access to affordable health insurance — but only if we let ideological warfare...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- Picket signs and megaphones could be seen in downtown Springfield Wednesday -- all aimed at healthcare.   The Missouri State Workers Union held a rally ahead of a board meeting that could determine their fate. The Missouri...

A group of about 30 parishioners from Hancock took refuge Monday night in Hagerstown, one of several stops along their 100-mile religious pilgrimage to Baltimore in protest of an Obama administration policy requiring private health insurance plans to...

One hundred years after Theodore Roosevelt proposed studying the European model of nationalized health insurance, America has finally listened. Instead of a direct route to the Bismarck-style system in which the population is divided among multiple...