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Opinion: Winning the Future With Health Care Reform

On Tuesday, President Barack Obama outlined a plan to help America win the future. But some in Congress are still intent on refighting the political battles of the past two years by trying to repeal the health care law, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. With millions of Americans already benefiting from the...

Opinion: Can We All Be Drafted Into Health Care Reform War?

(Dec. 16) -- Is it "necessary and proper" for Congress to draft every American into a nationwide health insurance pool? The Obama administration claims it is and will be making this argument in a Florida federal court Thursday after having lost its case in a separate federal court earlier this week. Most non-lawyer...

New Rules Require Health Insurers to Spend More on Care

WASHINGTON (Nov. 22) -- Insurance companies will have to spend 80 to 85 percent of consumers' premiums on direct patient care or send a rebate if they don't, under long-awaited rules issued today that were passed as part of the Obama administration's health care law. The 308 pages of regulations on what is known as the...

Health Care Reform Legal Challenge Marches Forward

(Oct. 15) -- On Thursday, a federal judge in Florida ruled that a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the health care law can move forward. U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson allowed two of the suit's challenges to proceed: 1) that Congress exceeds its authority with the "individual mandate" that requires almost all...

Six Health Care Changes That Go Into Effect Soon

(Sept. 22) -- The wait is over. A new era of health care coverage in America is set to begin this week, when some provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act officially begin to be enforced by law. Many of the changes will be phased in over the next several years, but the debate over whether the...

Background on health reform

Health care reform is a general rubric used for discussing major health policy creation or changes—for the most part, governmental policy that affects health care delivery in a given place.

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