Even as GOP lawmakers advance their strategies, Dems see a plan of their own — they plan to cast Republicans as trying to take away patients’ rights. Meanwhile, physicians take to to press for medical liability reforms, with lots of lobbying money streaming in. House Conservatives Ready To Cut It’s finally slash-and-burn time for conservatives, and the programs they target [...]

President Barack Obama made clear that he is willing to tinker around the edges of the sweeping reform, but not return to the days before the measure became law. Media outlets analyzed the specifics of his comments and offered a big picture view of the impact of the entire speech, including fact-checking some of his related policy [...]

Bloomberg: “Maine wants an exemption from the federal health-care law to keep a Wall Street-controlled insurer with a history of allegedly abusive practices from leaving the state. Mila Kofman, Maine’s insurance superintendent, asked the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for a three-year waiver from the law’s requirement that insurers spend 80 percent of [...]

reports that some states are scrambling to ensure they can comply with the new federal health law. “Insurance commissioners in about half the states say they do not have clear authority to enforce consumer protection standards that take effect next month. Federal and state officials are searching for ways to plug the gap. Otherwise, they say, the [...]