Topic: United States

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A mounting U.S. deficit could pose a much greater threat to the survival of President Barack Obama's healthcare reforms than either the Supreme Court or 2012 elections.Many health experts say innovations in delivering medical care and the creation of ...

(Reuters) - U.S. health officials will allow states to select the basic set of medical benefits that must be offered by insurance plans participating in new exchanges mandated by the federal healthcare overhaul, the U.S. government said on Friday.The Department of Health ...

(Reuters) - U.S. health officials will allow states to select the basic set of medical benefits that must be offered by insurance plans participating in new exchanges mandated by the federal healthcare overhaul, the U.S. government said on Friday.The Department of Health ...

(Reuters) - U.S. healthcare reforms have enabled 2.5 million young adults to join or remain in their parents' health insurance plans, the U.S. government said on Wednesday, up from 1 million reported earlier this year.Federal officials fully credited the gains to the ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. health authorities are directing Medicare prescription drug plans to withhold payments for popular painkillers when they suspect patient abuse, part of a wider effort to combat fraud.The Department of Health and Human Services noted evidence of "doctor shopping," ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (Reuters) - Republican Mitt Romney hit surging presidential rival Newt Gingrich on Friday over Medicare reform but left the toughest criticisms to surrogates who hinted at Gingrich's troubled marital past.One day before a debate in Iowa, which holds the ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (Reuters) - Republican Mitt Romney hit surging presidential rival Newt Gingrich in Iowa on Friday for attacking a Republican plan to reform Medicare but left the harshest criticism to his campaign surrogates.On a visit to Iowa, which holds the ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Internal Revenue Service's crackdown on overseas tax cheats is having an unintended consequence on American expats. It's prompting many of them to pay penalties for failure to file paperwork that may be drastically out of proportion to ...

Bad news got you down? Here are some things to be thankful for as 2011 winds down and a new year begins.Bad news got you down? Here are some things to be thankful for as 2011 winds down and a new year ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Blacks need emergency surgery more often than whites for a common type of intestinal disease, and they tend to fare worse afterwards, suggests a study of older Americans on Medicare.It's not the first time researchers find racial ...