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The recently enacted health care reform legislation, which calls for eliminating financial barriers for many preventive services, likely will create a greater demand for these services and give physicians a better opportunity to provide preventive care, according to analysts interviewed by AAFP News Now. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will require new health plans (i.e., plans ...

National health care reform is well under way, and money is flowing to local communities and governments to boost prevention and medical-training efforts, a federal official said Thursday. Herb K. Schultz, the Region IX director of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services , outlined key elements of the health care reform legislation during a speech at UC Riverside's Palm Desert campus.

Federal health care reform will save Maryland $829 million over the next 10 years, according to projections by a state commission looking at how the new law will affect the state.

Health-care reform is not going anywhere, a regional director of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services told a lunchtime business meeting Wednesday.

NEWTON — Crosby Legal Seminars will present health care reform webinar, “Healthcare Reform: What You Need to Know,” Wednesday from 7 to 8 p.m. Participants will learn about recent health care reform legislation and how the new laws may affect their health, employment, finances and constitutional rights.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - More than 1 million people are expected to participate in what amounts to the largest-ever public opinion poll on the nation's new health care law.

Thirty million women will benefit from the new health reform law over the next decade, either through new or strengthened insurance coverage, according to a new report from The Commonwealth Fund. In the first analysis of its kind, the authors report that the law will stabilize and reverse the growing exposure to health costs that women now experience by subsidizing health insurance for up to 15 ...

Recent passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was only a starting point in reforming the health care system in the United States. As guidelines and regulations are developed, many health policy experts note that actual implementation of the law will not work without the ability to bend the health care cost curve. And that cannot be accomplished without a greater emphasis on ...

THURSDAY, July 29 (HealthDay News) -- Will the new health-reform legislation mean higher taxes for the middle class? Will panels decide what care very sick, older people should receive?

Opposition to the landmark overhaul declined over the past month, according to a tracking poll. Health care - United States - Opinion poll - Politics - Health Care Reform