Health Care Reform

Though sweeping regulations helped to clarify many points about the framework needed for state-based health insurance exchanges, experts at actuarial and consulting firm Milliman say there are important questions that still need answers.

So now the states have a little more breathing room.

Turning the federal health care reform law into reality is moving slowly as it's being challenged in court, but a federal official says it's already being felt in North Carolina and other states.

According to a new study by the PwC US Health Research Institute (HRI), the state health insurance exchanges will create a more competitive marketplace with agents serving in new roles.

The Department of Health and Human Services announced Monday guidelines that are designed to help states establish health insurance exchanges — state-based competitive marketplaces where individuals and small businesses will be able to purchase affordable private health insurance.

The world's top emerging countries banded together Monday to help fight diseases in the poorest countries, pledging to transfer technologies to the developing world to help supply cheap and effective drugs.