Health Care Reform

The long, trudging march of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act toward the U.S. Supreme Court is nearing the end, of the road, as court after court clash over the constitutionality of the landmark legislation.

Like the villain in a bad slasher flick, Congress will be back to take another stab at Medicare cuts.

Idaho has applied for millions of dollars in federal funding to establish a health insurance exchange.

Gov. Brian Schweitzer said Wednesday he will ask the U.S. government to let Montana set up its own universal health care program, taking his rhetorical fight over health care to another level.

Raising prospects for a major election-year ruling, the Obama administration launched its Supreme Court defense of its landmark health care overhaul Wednesday, appealing what it called a "fundamentally flawed" appeals court decision that declared the law's central provision unconstitutional.

The Justice Department is joining calls by states and a business group for prompt Supreme Court review of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.