Insurance Law

Republican state officials sued to strike down the law before it could take full effect, arguing this insurance “mandate” amounted to an unprecedented and unconstitutional overreach by the Democrats. The chief justice, defying many predictions …

President Obama says the health care law makes coverage more affordable, but the insurance industry reacted to the Supreme Court decision by saying that the ruling will actually end up raising rates even more than they have climbed since the … Continue reading →

Now that the Supreme Court has upheld the health reform law, one worrisome question is how many businesses will drop insurance for their employees, figuring the newly mandated financial penalty for not offering coverage is less costly than the …

Disputing the Supreme Court’s characterization of the individual mandate in the health-care law as a tax, the White House Friday still chose to call it a “penalty” that people would be required to pay for not carrying insurance.

… say that where federal law supersedes state law, expect some of the following changes: •    More moderate-income Massachusetts residents will be eligible for state-subsidized health insurance because of a change in income restrictions.

Up to now, most states have avoided decisive action to build the private insurance exchanges that would extend health coverage to an additional 16 million Americans. Governors in largely Republican states who oppose the entire law may still …

The court said the law’s requirement that individual Americans purchase insurance or be subject to a penalty levied by the IRS was constitutional. It also upheld a provision greatly expanding Medicaid, the health care program for the poor …

Here are the big takeaways from Thursday’s historic Supreme Court decision on President Obama’s 2010 health-care law: If you already have health insurance, your everyday life isn’t expected to change much. If you don’t have health insurance …

Under the law, which the court upheld in its entirety by a 5-to-4 vote, individuals must be able to buy insurance coverage through the new state exchanges by Jan. 1, 2014. But a more immediate deadline is less than six … Continue reading →

And most Americans balk at the idea of the government making people carry insurance or pay a penalty on their federal tax returns. The effects of the nation’s health care law, upheld Thursday by the Supreme Court, are gigantic and … Continue reading →