http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (HealthDay)—The Obama administration is giving states additional time to set up so-called health insurance exchanges, a key element of the 2010 health reform law designed to bring coverage to an estimated 30 million Americans who don't have insurance. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-states-health-exchanges.html Health Tue, 15 Jan 2013 13:40:01 EST news277477898 (AP)—Friday is decision day for states to notify Washington if they will run their own insurance markets under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-states-health-exchanges.html Health Fri, 14 Dec 2012 03:39:11 EST news274678742 now assured by the re-election of President Obama – is expected to result in up to 50 million currently uninsured Americans acquiring some type of health insurance coverage. But a study by researchers at the Mongan Institute for Health Policy at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) finds that a significant percentage of the primary care physicians most likely to care for newly insured patients may be not be accepting new patients. The investigators note that strategies designed to increase and support these "safety-net" physicians could help ensure that newly covered patients have access to primary care. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-newly-patients-primary-physicians.html Health Mon, 26 Nov 2012 16:02:57 EST news273168170 (HealthDay)—Under the Affordable Care Act, the Obama administration's controversial reform of health care, states are supposed to assist uninsured Americans in buying health coverage by setting up so-called "insurance exchanges." http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-health-reform-states-balking-exchanges.html Health Wed, 19 Sep 2012 10:20:01 EST news267268133 Despite a twenty-five year old law that bans "patient dumping" the practice continues to put uninsured Americans at risk, according to a national team of researchers led by a professor at the George Washington School of Public Health and Health Services. Patient dumping is the practice of turning away or transferring uninsured patients with emergency medical conditions. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-critically-ill-uninsured-americans-hospitals.html Health Mon, 06 Aug 2012 16:00:10 EST news263487314 "Every time I see what I pay for me and my family's health it makes me sick," says Fiona, a 46-year-old mother of two who -- unlike some 50 million Americans -- actually has health insurance. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-sight-health.html Health Thu, 28 Jun 2012 07:53:53 EST news260088804