Signed into law by President Obama on March 23rd, 2010, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) made sweeping changes to the nation's health care system. As the U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments on the constitutionality of PPACA on March 26-28, we have a team of editors on the ground in Washington D.C. to provide live coverage of the hearings and how it will affect your business. Stay tuned to this page for critical news coverage including industry-specific perspectives, expert interviews, videos and live reporting via Twitter (#ppaca).
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By Kathryn Mayer |
May 10, 2012
Governor Howard Dean told a crowd of brokers—who had slammed the former presidential candidate’s position on health care—that the individual mandate provision is “one of the very large blunders” of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and predicted the Supreme Court will rule it unconstitutional.
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By Kathryn Mayer |
April 24, 2012
The increased public attention to health reform generated by the Supreme Court’s consideration of the law did little to change public opinion, a new poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation finds.
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By Kathryn Mayer |
April 18, 2012
Health reform will cause hospital revenues to drop, a new report suggests.
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By Kathryn Mayer |
April 12, 2012
The Obama campaign released a video Thursday for the sixth anniversary of Mitt Romney’s health care law, blasting the presumed Republican nominee for his attack against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act even though the president used Romney's health reform plan as a model.
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By Kathryn Mayer |
April 10, 2012
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will increase deficits over the next decade by between $346 and $527 billion, according to a new study by a Medicare trustee.
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By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar |
April 10, 2012
A possible misunderstanding about President Barack Obama's health care overhaul could cloud Supreme Court deliberations on its fate, leaving the impression that the law's insurance requirement is more onerous than it actually is.
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By Ben Feller |
April 2, 2012
Presenting his own vigorous legal argument, President Barack Obama on Monday issued a rare, direct challenge to the Supreme Court to uphold his historic health care overhaul.
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By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar |
April 2, 2012
The individual insurance requirement that the Supreme Court is reviewing isn't the first federal mandate involving health care.
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By Amanda McGrory |
March 30, 2012
After hearing oral arguments regarding the constitutionality of health care reform’s individual mandate, the Supreme Court justices are to decide whether the bill should be left alone, partially overturned or struck down in its entirety, says Jennifer Kraft, one of the lawyers who presented oral arguments to the Supreme Court...
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By Mark Sherman |
March 29, 2012
The survival of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul rests with a Supreme Court seemingly split over ideology and, more particularly, in the hands of two Republican-appointed justices.
