Broker Regulation

Worried about complying with the so-called Cadillac tax when its due to take effect in 2018? You can probably stop planning around it. The big guns now have it in their sights.

State and federal regulators announced that they are teaming up to shut down Health Republic Insurance of New York on Nov. 30, rather than letting the company stay open until the end of the year.

Supporters of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act are not happy with news out of Kentucky, which on Tuesday elected Matt Bevin, a Republican and vehement opponent of PPACA, as governor.

House Republicans are attempting to win key Democrats over as supporters of a major overhaul of the mental health system as the legislation approaches a significant hurdle.

In a Monday column for the conservative Washington Times, however, Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyoming, suggested that the landmark health overhaul would soon collapse, leaving nobody to defend President Obamas signature domestic policy.

While the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is garnering plenty of criticism as it enters its third open enrollment period, there is at least one provision of the landmark health law that many of the law's critics may soon be forced to embrace: the federally-funded expansion of Medicaid.