WASHINGTON—About 2.5 million young adults have gained health insurance due to a health care reform law provision that requires employers to extend coverage to employees’ adult children up to age 26, the Department of Health and Human Services said Wednesday…….click here to continue reading
Controlling excess costs will be key in sustaining the viability of a threatened health care system, the director of the South Carolina Department Health and Human Services told a group of providers at the Regional Medical Center on Aug. 10…….click here to continue reading
With a new state health and human services budget, it’s clear that health plans, hospitals and providers will have less money to serve their patients with publicly-subsidized insurance…….click here to continue reading
If education is facing a Category 5 hurricane from Harrisburg, then public health and human services may be experiencing the calm before the gathering storms…….click here to continue reading
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Friday in Topeka that overhauling the health insurance industry alone can’t fix the nation’s inefficient health care system. Sebelius said improvements in how health care is delivered in rural areas and rural centers also must be implemented. read more……click here to continue reading