WASHINGTON — Democrats are mocking Republicans in the House of Representatives for voting to repeal the health care reform law and keep their own enhanced medical care. When Congress passed the health care law, it required members of Congress to get their insurance on exchanges with the rest of the public. But in voting to [...]
WASHINGTON — When the Justice Department submitted a petition to the Supreme Court yesterdayurging it to declare once and for all that the 2010 health care overhaul is constitutional, the department made a point of mentioning the only Republican-appointed judge who has so far upheld the individual mandate. Indeed, the Obama administration made that point repeatedly. [...]
The economic downturn may provide businesses with an unexpected benefit: A bit of relief in employer health care costs. Health care benefit costs will increase 5.4 percent in 2012, in what would be the smallest gain since 1997, according to a survey conducted by Mercer released Wednesday. One reason for the decline is a drop [...]
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s new deficit plan would fix a $14 billion glitch in his health care law. Unless the problem gets fixed, a million or more middle-class early retirees could get nearly free Medicaid coverage meant for the poor. The administration downplayed concerns when The Associated Press reported on the glitch this summer. [...]
RICHMOND, Va. — The federal health care overhaul survived two lawsuits dismissed Thursday on technicalities, leaving President Barack Obama’s signature initiative headed toward a final resolution in the U.S. Supreme Court as early as next year. It’s possible the high court could rule on the issue by June 2012, in the midst of Obama’s re-election [...]
The authors of the health care reform bill signed into law last year did not mean to create an incentive for people with private insurance to abandon their coverage, but that’s what some people are doing. On June 28, Irene Schmoller sent an email to her health insurance company, Health Net of Arizona, letting them [...]
Voters will get the chance to decide whether Ohio can opt out of the national health care overhaul after the state’s top election official said Tuesday that opponents of the federal law have enough signatures to put a constitutional amendment on the Nov. 8 ballot. Secretary of State Jon Husted determined that supporters of the [...]
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