Julie Rovner

Why Abortion Has Become Such A Prominent Campaign Issue

Julie Rovner — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 14:37:37 +0000

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Democrats And Republicans Differ On Medicaid Fix

Julie Rovner — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 23:01:19 +0000

Medicaid is already the nation's largest health insurance program in terms of number of people covered: It serves nearly 1 in 5 Americans.

Romney's Medicaid remarks on '60 Minutes' raise eyebrows

Julie Rovner — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 14:12:08 +0000

It's not so much what Mitt Romney said about whether the government should guarantee people health care in his interview on CBS's 60 Minutes Sunday that has health care policy types buzzing.

More Americans Have Health Insurance, But Not Many More

Julie Rovner — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 00:55:57 +0000

The nation's official measure of health insurance coverage turned positive for the first time in quite a while.

The Census Bureau reported a decline in the number of Americans without coverage in 2011. But the ranks of the uninsured remain pretty high.

All told, 48.6 million people, or 15.7 percent of the population, had no health insurance last year, down 1.4 million from 50 million in 2010.

It was the first time in a decade that the number of people with private coverage held stable instead of declined.

Does mother's abortion history affect baby's birth weight?

Julie Rovner — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 16:46:53 +0000

Women who had multiple abortions before giving birth to a first child were more likely to have that child very prematurely or to deliver a child with a low birth weight, according to one of the first large-scale studies to look at the issue.

The study, whose results appear in the European journal Human Reproduction, examined more than 300,000 first-born children in Finland between 1996 and 2008.

After Supreme Court Ruling, Health Law Will Cover Fewer And Cost Less

Julie Rovner — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 23:45:00 +0000

The Congressional Budget Office and Joint Tax Committee this afternoon issued their long-awaited analysis of the cost of the Affordable Care Act post-Supreme Court changes.

Their verdict? Making the expansion of Medicaid optional for states will result in fewer people (about 3 million fewer) getting coverage. But that will also reduce the overall price tag of the law over the next decade by about $84 billion.

Now that's not as obvious as it first sounds.

Fever-pitched countdown to the Supreme Court's ruling on health care

Julie Rovner — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 22:02:23 +0000

Anticipation has reached a fever pitch, and the waiting is almost over.

This week, the Supreme Court is almost certain to issue its decision on the constitutionality of President Obama's health care law. The decision could have far-reaching implications for the legal landscape, the nation's health care system and even the Supreme Court's legacy.

The court will have to answer four distinct legal questions raised by the challenge to the Affordable Care Act.

Why many young adults might lose coverage if health law falls

Julie Rovner — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 15:49:33 +0000

When it comes to health care, even the seemingly easy things become hard.

Take coverage for young adults under the Affordable Care Act.

It's one of the most successful — and popular — provisions of the law that have taken effect so far.

Insurers wait for verdict on health care law and their bottom line

Julie Rovner — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 18:37:41 +0000

All eyes these days are trained on the U.S. Supreme Court, which is expected to rule sometime this month on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act.

But some people are waiting more anxiously for the court to rule than others.

More walkers with headphones getting clobbered, study suggests

Julie Rovner — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:07:22 +0000

By now we all know that distracted driving can kill you. But a new study suggests that distracted walking can be pretty deadly, too.

The study, published online by the journal Injury Prevention, is from researchers from the University of Maryland School of Medicine who looked at pedestrian accident data from a variety of sources between 2004 and 2011.