Healthcare reform

While 88% of small business owners do not think it is right for the government to force a state resident to buy health insurance, more than 90% of them do not intend on purchasing health coverage under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

The Department of Health and Human Services has rolled out an enhanced version of a public website, mandated under the Accountable Care Act, to aid small businesses and consumers in comparing and purchasing health care coverage.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has issued its first rebuke to an insurer under the federal rate review provision of the Affordable Care Act.

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners on Tuesday passed a resolution urging the Department of Health and Human Services to take action to preserve the role of professional health insurance agents and brokers as advisers and advocates. The National Association of Health Underwriters praises the NAIC for the move.

The breakdown of deficit talks in Congress will exact little pain on the U.S. health care industry, but it's a temporary reprieve from steeper cuts that could be put back on the table in 2013.

The Supreme Court on Friday named an attorney to argue that challenges to President Barack Obama's health care insurance requirements must wait until after that part of the law has taken effect in 2014.

As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to review President Barack Obama's health care reforms, more Americans want to it repealed than want to keep it, a poll released on Wednesday shows.

The Supreme Court has officially announced it will consider the constitutionality of the health care reform law during its current term, with an opinion expected in May or June 2012.

The House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee held a hearing to discuss the relative unpopularity of the Small Business Health Tax Credit that is part of the health care reform law.

The American Medical Association added pressure on U.S. states to steer toward the system that opens doors to all insurers who meet minimum standards as they build up their health insurance exchanges.

The Supreme Court announced Monday that it will hear cases on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in March with a ruling expected by the end of June.

The percentage of Americans who have health insurance through their employer slipped to a new low of 44.5% in the third quarter, a drop of over 5 percentage points in three years, according to a poll released on Friday.

Employers and employees alike have found a more affordable health care option in health savings accounts, according to two national surveys released last week.

The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to decide the fate of President Barack Obama's health care law, with an election-year ruling due by July on the health care system's biggest overhaul in nearly 50 years.

States and territories seeking to establish a health insurance exchange, funded under the Affordable Care Act, will be required to submit an application for approval during the fall of 2012, the Department of Health and Human Services has announced.

President Barack Obama's signature health care law got a boost on Tuesday when a U.S. appeals court agreed with a lower court that dismissed a challenge and found the law's minimum coverage requirement was constitutional.

The excise tax remains employers’ No. 1 concern with the health care reform law, with 45% of employers surveyed recently by Mercer citing it as a significant concern.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc will no longer offer health insurance to new part-time U.S. employees who work fewer than 24 hours a week and will charge workers who use tobacco more for coverage as health care costs rise, the company said on Friday.

The Obama administration is pulling the plug on a long-term, home-care program included in the 2010 health care reform law that Republicans have derided as a budget trick.

It’s getting close to Halloween, which has many of us thinking about ghosts, witches, vampires and zombies. Apparently, the Obama administration is even getting into the spirit of the season, with a zombie of its own. Perhaps, though, you know it better as the CLASS Act. CLASS (Community Living Assistance Services and Supports) is the famous/infamous portion of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that would allow voluntary enrollees to participate in a public long-term care…