Kate Pickert becomes the latest journalist to talk about MIT health economist Jonathan Gruber’s disclosure problems. She agrees with the general journalist assessment that they should have been better and determining and disclosing Gruber’s relationship with the Obama Administration, but she adds that Gruber has a deep knowledge of the subject and has pretty much [...]

The first amendment introduced on the floor of the Senate comes from Sen. Barbara Mikulski, seeking to add a provision included in the HELP Committee version of the bill. This measure would mandate coverage – for free – for various women’s preventive health procedures and screenings. This is a direct response to the controversy surrounding [...]

It was inevitable that the news of the US Preventive Services Task Force changing their guidelines on mammography would cause a political uproar. In a year where Congress is not trying to do comprehensive health care reform, the findings would be controversial. In this year, especially because of the role of the USPSTF in at [...]

The inclusion of the Stupak amendment in the House health care bill certainly represented a setback for women’s health. But a provocative article in The Nation suggested that other portions of the bill shortchanged women by not requiring certain basic preventive services for women, or enabling providers to charge extra for them. Sharon Lerner argues [...]