Health Care Law

A few weeks back, when I was looking for a local angle on the Supreme Court decision regarding the Affordable Care Act that reforms health care, I learned something I hadn’t known: The act already has benefitted tens of thousands … Continue reading →

Something is strange when we talk about the new health care law and its ability to control costs – overall costs, one would assume, not just health care costs. I say this because if health care costs go down, and … Continue reading →

To wit: House Republicans voted once again to repeal the health care law that Congress passed and President Obama signed in 2010. It was 33rd time in 18 months that the House has tried to abolish, defund or otherwise scale … Continue reading →

… many states is scrambling to build from scratch the insurance apparatus called for in President Obama’s new health care law. Nowhere is there more experienced talent for the job than in Massachusetts, which developed the nation’s first …

On a campaign swing through the political battleground of Virginia, President Barack Obama on Friday mocked House Republicans for holding yet another vote against his landmark health care law. Thursday’s action was the 33 rd time the president’s …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The head of the U.S. government’s Medicare and Medicaid health programs urged Republican state … the resources and flexibility offered in the Affordable Care Act (Obama healthcare law), and will put aside old political …

Millions of young people will qualify for good deals on health care if they take time to sort through the complicated law. Many will get Medicaid coverage at virtually no cost. Others will qualify for private insurance at a fraction … Continue reading →

AUSTIN, Texas — Fully implementing the federal health care law and adding 2 million people to Medicaid would cost Texas $11 billion less than previously estimated, the state’s health and human services commissioner said Thursday. Tom Suehs …

Fully implementing the federal health care law and adding 2 million people to Medicaid would cost Texas $11 billion less than previously estimated, the state’s health and human services commissioner said Thursday. Tom Suehs said it would cost $15 billion … Continue reading →

The Supreme Court upheld most of the federal health care law, but ruled that the federal government cannot coerce states into expanding Medicaid, which is a joint federal-state health insurance program for the poor and disabled. Under the new …