Here’s what’s making health news this morning: Excerpt from:  A.M. Vitals: Anticipating the Health Law Ruling  Read More →

How did last month’s oral arguments before the Supreme Court on the health-overhaul law shift public opinion? Not much, it turns out. Some 43% of respondents in an April poll carried out by the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation had an unfavorable... 

Here’s what’s making health news today: Health-Law Case Puts Roberts in Crucible (WSJ): The chief justice left himself room to uphold the health-care overhaul and stay in line with his comments made during this week’s oral arguments,... 

Here’s what’s making health news this morning: Justices Question Health Law (WSJ): The Supreme Court’s conservative justices sharply challenged the Obama administration’s health-care overhaul Tuesday, raising the prospect that... 

Here’s what’s making health news this morning: Health-Law War Heats Up as Court Review Nears (WSJ): Democrats are touting the nearly two-year-old health-overhaul law as a consumer issue, while Republicans are framing it as an expensive government... 

President Obama will announce a revamped contraception-coverage policy today that shifts the responsibility to cover free birth control to insurers rather than employers, the WSJ reports . The move will let a broader group of religious employers —... 

Up to the States: The onus is on the states to make the tough decisions about what treatments must be covered by individual and small-group plans under the health-care overhaul law, the WSJ reports . The Obama administration said states would be able... 

New Medicare Plan: Republican Rep. Paul Ryan and Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden plan to today propose a plan for changing Medicare that would permit private health-insurance plans to compete for enrollees with the traditional Medicare plan, the WSJ reports... 

Central to the drug-shortage issue is a chicken-and-egg question that often leaves legislators scratching their heads at congressional hearings. Chicken: Are the shortages of crucial drugs caused by factory flaws and shutdowns? Or egg: Are shortages... 

By Louise Radnofsky Doctors’ feelings about the health-care overhaul law passed last year are about as mixed as their patients’, research released today shows. Some 44% of doctors said the law was “a good start,” according to...