health services

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  Health reforms penalize some Indians

  By Garance Burke  |  May 15, 2013

  Many Native Americans will have to buy their own health insurance or pay a $695 fine unless they can prove they are "Indian enough" to claim one of the few exemptions allowed under the PPACA.

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  PPACA and French health care one and the same? Far from it

  By Erin Conroy  |  May 6, 2013

  PPACA is often compared to European health care: Both are built on a large, highly regulated private sector and rely mainly on third-party, employment-based insurers.

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  Jobless rate hits four-year low

  By Christopher S. Rugaber  |  May 3, 2013

  U.S. employers added 165,000 jobs in April, and hiring was much stronger in the previous two months than the government first estimated. The job increases helped reduce the unemployment rate from 7.6 percent to a four-year low of 7.5 percent.

• World of good

  By Erin Conroy  |  May 1, 2013

  As the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act takes shape, it’s often compared to European health care and, in particular, to the system in France. It’s an easy comparison to make: Both are built on a large, highly regulated private sector and rely mainly on third-party, employment-based insurers.

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  Is the workplace health clinic the new health care fix?

  By Kathryn Mayer  |  April 26, 2013

  Is a medical clinic in a workplace really the best thing considered? NPR seems to think so.

• Job growth increases for women, men

  By Amanda McGrory-Dixon  |  March 11, 2013

  Of the jobs added in February, 80,000 went to women while 156,000 went to men, according to an analysis by the Institute for Women's Policy Research of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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  Unemployment falls to 7.7 percent

  By Christopher S. Rugaber  |  March 8, 2013

  A burst of hiring last month added 236,000 U.S. jobs and reduced the unemployment rate to 7.7 percent from 7.9 percent in January. The robust gains suggested that the economy can strengthen further despite higher taxes and government spending cuts.

• New Mexico alters Medicaid proposal for Native Americans

  By The Associated Press  |  March 7, 2013

  Gov. Susana Martinez's administration says a proposed revision of Medicaid will require only some eligible Native Americans to obtain health services through managed care organizations.

• Your chances of dying by 2023?

  By Lindsey Tanner  |  March 5, 2013

  Want to know your chances of dying in the next 10 years? Here are some bad signs: getting winded walking several blocks, smoking, and having trouble pushing a chair across the room.

• Feds release rules on essential health benefits

  By Kathryn Mayer  |  February 20, 2013

  The Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday finalized a key health reform rule that most notably expands mental health and substance abuse benefits to 62 million Americans.