US 44th President Barack Obama does not want anything to go wrong this time as his re-election time is approaching. He with his administration is focusing on those rare points which would not come in the mind of other election candidates.

Three Republican Senators Thursday said that the investigative arm of Congress - the Government Accountability Office – should look into the manner in which the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) has spent the $10-billion funding that was extended under the 2010 health care overhaul regulation.

The U. S. Department of Health and Human Services has approved an $850,000 grant to Alameda Health Consortium. On Thursday, the funding was sanctioned to the health consortium, which envelops eight community health centres in East Bay, with intent of assisting low-income kids join the low/no cost health facilities under Children's Health Insurance Program or Medi-Cal.

Ever since she took over the command of Washington’s massive health care bureaucracy in 2009, Kathleen Sebelius has had to weather many a storms, including the global flu pandemic that almost coincided with her appointment, as well as the medical fallout from the worst-ever oil spill in US history.

The implementation of new health reforms has been questioned since quite some time now. People have been left perplexed about how their healthcare costs will increase on prescriptions. Apart from that, they have also been wondering about why they won’t be able to visit the same doctor they have been receiving care from, since, so many years.

The Affordable Care Act has provided prescription drug cost relief to around 78,000 people who were Medicare beneficiaries.

With ending of 2010, and New Year just on the doors to arrive, the Medicare needs to be updated as soon as possible. The deadline coming closer had made people decide the manner in which they want their medical health benefits to be there for next year.

Regulators are to vote on a key provision of the new healthcare legislative overhaul: the controversial rules governing how much insurers must spend on patients’ medical care.

The Kaiser Family Foundation conducted a poll regarding the new health care reform policy. It was found that 53% people in the United States are still not very clear about the Affordable Care Act.

A new brochure contended to explain facade of the new health care law signed by President Barack Obama, mailed to Medicare recipients by the Department of Health and Human Services has been strongly criticized by the Senate Republicans. In a speech on the Senate floor, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell described the mailed document, as an “outrage”.