Health Care Reform

It sounds like a silver lining. Even if the Supreme Court overturns President Barack Obama's health care law, employers can keep offering popular coverage for the young adult children of their workers. But here's the catch: The parents' taxes would go up.

Insurer UnitedHealth Group Inc. sees some parts of the health care overhaul as sound medicine and plans to keep them regardless of whether the law survives an upcoming Supreme Court ruling.

Nearly 40 percent of adults ages 19 to 29 went without health insurance in 2011. But, according to analysis from The Commonwealth Fund, health reform is changing things around for this segment of the population that commonly forgoes medical coverage.

Ohio wants to take a complicated and lengthy process used to assess the Medicaid eligibility of more than 700,000 people and simplify it based on income, according to a draft of the plans released on Wednesday.

The incoming president of the American Medical Association says not to expect chaos if the U.S. Supreme Court rejects all or part of the sweeping federal health care law.

Here we go again. In an event about as frequent as a bipartisan vote, employers are apparently on the same page as their employees.

Former President Bill Clinton warned Monday that a Mitt Romney presidency would be "calamitous" for the nation and the world, going further than even President Barack Obama in depicting the consequences of a return to Republican rule of the White House.

For Republicans, it's an irresistible trifecta: A bill that gives them an election-season chance to say they're fighting to protect jobs and cut taxes, even as it erodes financing for President Barack Obama's health care overhaul they despise.