Health Care Reform

President Barack Obama's health care overhaul will get its first oral arguments in federal appeals court Tuesday when a three-judge panel hears two Virginia cases one that upheld the law and another that struck down its key provision.

The U.S. Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service have requested comment from the public on issues relating to 4980H, the "play or pay" or "shared responsibility" provisions in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

A health care policy expert who helped develop President Jimmy Carter's doomed national health plan and was one of the architects of Massachusetts' landmark health care law has died. Dr. James Mongan was 69.

The Maine House on Thursday gave initial approval to a health care overhaul bill by a narrow margin amid objections that some lawmakers were being rushed to judgment on a complex measure that they were still studying.

We already have a pretty good idea about how brokers and agents are feeling about the medical loss ratio provision of PPACA. In two words: not happy. But what's the flip side; the impact of MLR on human resources or benefits managers?

More than two dozen states challenging the health care overhaul urged a U.S. appeals court on Wednesday to strike down the Obama administration's landmark law, arguing it far exceeds the federal government's powers.