A majority (78%) of health care executives are focusing on operations to reduce costs next year, a “significant” increase in cost-savings projects since 2010, a new survey says.

Judith L. Roman, president and CEO of AmeriHealth New Jersey. is among five panelists scheduled to take part in the third annual New Jersey Association of Health Underwriters’ State of the State in Healthcare Symposium.

According to today’s (April 30) Congressional Quarterly journal: “Congressional Democrats appear increasingly determined to create a government-run insurance plan to compete with private insurers as part of a health care …  Read →

Congressional Democrats are making no bones about it: President Obama‘s health care legislation will pass, and any Republicans standing in the way will find themselves unable to do much other …  Read →

President Obama brought together those who are in favor, those who oppose, and those who are skeptical about changing the health care delivery climate in the United States, according to …  Read →

In his first remarks to a joint session of Congress in a pseudo-State of the Union address, President Obama vowed that health care reform would come within a year, but …  Read →

According to the Los Angeles Times and IFAwebnews.com, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus beat both Sen. Ted Kennedy and President-elect Barack Obama by being the first one out of the …  Read →

Sen. Edward “Ted” Kennedy is a brawler, and as nice as he comes across sometimes, insiders have said that he is tough as nails and would just as soon step …  Read →

According to a great column by Anna Wilde Mathews in the Wall Street Journal, Americans overall will fare slightly better under health care changes proposed by Sen. John McCain than …  Read →