U.S. Supreme Court

• Problems surface over Arizona’s 2007 immigration law

  By Jacques Billeaud  |  May 17, 2013

  The immigration debate in Arizona reached a boiling point in 2007 when the state passed a groundbreaking law targeting those often blamed with fueling the nation's border woes: Employers who hire immigrants living in the U.S. illegally.

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  Colorado Medicaid expansion signed into law

  By Ivan Moreno  |  May 14, 2013

  An expansion of Medicaid eligibility that's expected to add 160,000 adults to public health care assistance in Colorado has been signed into law.

• Health reform in our time

  By Denis Storey  |  May 1, 2013

  1993—U.S. Sen. John Chafee, R-Rhode Island, introduces the “Health Equity and Access Reform Act,” which includes a mandate, complete a non-compliance “penalty.” Supporters include Sens. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, and Republican Kit Bond from Missouri.

• 1. Health reform in our time

  By Denis Storey  |  April 30, 2013

  A timeline of health reform, the moments, turning points and events that defined the debate, 1993-present.

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  Lawsuit filed to block new Arkansas abortion law

  By Jeannie Nuss  |  April 16, 2013

  Abortion rights advocates filed a lawsuit Tuesday that seeks to overturn the more restrictive of Arkansas' two new abortion laws, saying its near-ban of abortions beginning in the 12th week of pregnancy is unconstitutional.

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  Supreme Court backs enrollee in 5-4 ERISA attorney's fee case

  By Allison Bell  |  April 16, 2013

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday decided 5-4 that a federal court can use equitable law principles when a group health plan contract governed by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) is silent about a legal issue.

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  Nevada jury orders HMO to pay $500M in hepatitis case

  By Ken Ritter  |  April 10, 2013

  A Nevada jury ordered the state's largest health management organization to pay $500 million in punitive damages to three plaintiffs in a civil negligence lawsuit stemming from a Las Vegas hepatitis outbreak.

• Nevada jury considers $2.5 billion hepatitis case

  By Ken Ritter  |  April 9, 2013

  With billions of dollars on the line, a Nevada jury is deliberating whether the state's largest health management organization should pay punitive damages in a negligence lawsuit stemming from a Las Vegas hepatitis outbreak called the largest in U.S. history.

• Medicaid meeting comes as Pennsylvania revenue lags

  By Marc Levy  |  April 2, 2013

  Gov. Tom Corbett's meeting with U.S. Health and Human Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on whether he'll seek an expansion of Medicaid to provide health care to hundreds of thousands of low-income Pennsylvania adults comes as state revenues are lagging his projections.

• Feds plan to revise cigarette labels

  By Michael Felberbaum  |  March 19, 2013

  The U.S. government is abandoning a legal battle to require that cigarette packs carry a set of large and often macabre warning labels depicting the dangers of smoking and encouraging smokers to quit.