Insurance Law

By a 5-4 vote, the court held the law’s mandate requiring Americans to carry health insurance or pay a penalty valid under Congress’s constitutional authority to levy taxes. The financial penalty for failing to carry insurance possesses “the …

U.S. Sen. Max Baucus helped write the health care law during a turbulent summer and fall of 2009 and pointed to the benefits of it, such as ensuring that young adults can remain on their parents’ health insurance and preventing … Continue reading →

U.S. Sen. Max Baucus helped write the health care law during a turbulent summer and fall of 2009 and pointed to the benefits of it, such as ensuring that young adults can remain on their parents’ health insurance and preventing … Continue reading →

These Clinton Democrats made Obama pay dearly for his law, and in the end he had to accept the central point of his 2008 rival’s plan: mandatory insurance. Regulatory-friendly Republicans had conjured this idea in response to the health law … Continue reading →

He predicted that Thursday’s U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding President Obama’s Affordable Care Act health insurance law would make voters more likely to approve rate regulation in California in 2014. The initiative would give the state …

It’s only early July, but it’s already a record-setting year for wildfires in Colorado. The High Park fire west of Fort Collins has already destroyed more than 250 homes, the highest number lost to a single wildfire in the state’s … Continue reading →

Ever since it was signed into law in 2010, the federal health law has prompted speculation that insurance brokers are an endangered species. That’s because the law is meant to simplify the insurance market so that individuals and small …

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld virtually all of President Barack Obama’s historic health care overhaul, including the hotly debated core requirement that nearly every American have health insurance. The 5-4 decision meant the huge …

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court today upheld President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul. The decision means the huge overhaul, still only partly in effect, will proceed and pick up momentum over the next several years, affecting the way …

Nebraska officials insist they’re ready to move forward with a state-based health insurance exchange if the U.S. Supreme Court upholds President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul. The state doesn’t yet have a law setting up an online insurance …