Health Care Reform

No matter what happens to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (2010), the trend toward individual and small group health coverage sales shifting to exchanges likely will continue.

Members of the American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates approved new health insurance exchange policies this weekend at a meeting in New Orleans.

U.S. employers with more than 50 workers seem to be much more concerned about a federal tax on expensive health benefits packages than they are about the idea of having to provide coverage for all full-time employers.

The American public is divided on whether to repeal all of the Affordable Care Act, or just the mandate requiring everyone to buy health insurance.

Nothing about the Supreme Court not its magnificent building atop Capitol Hill nor its very title suggests that its word is anything other than final. Yet federal appellate judges and even state court judges sometimes find ways to insist on an outcome the Supreme Court has rejected.

The Obama administration will give up to $1 billion to those who come up with the best ideas for improving care, lowering costs and creating jobs within the health sector.