Dec 31 How the Health Reform Law Supports Gun Rights Cindy Sparr shows a customer an AK-47 style rifle at Freddie Bear Sports sporting goods store on Dec. 17 in Tinley Park, Ill. Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images. Did you know the Affordable Care Act stands up for gun… Continue reading
Nov 20 Watch White House Sets New Insurance Rules for Benefits Coverage The Obama administration released new rules outlining what insurers on federal- or state-run insurance exchanges must cover as essential health benefits. Ray Suarez talks to Health Affairs' Susan Dentzer about how states are reacting to further implementation of the Affordable… Continue watching
Sep 11 Watch Making Sen$e of Health Care: Competing Claims on Campaign Trail About Reform Making Sen$e of Health Care: Competing Claims on Campaign Trail About Reform… Continue watching
Aug 01 Watch Affordable Care Act Benefits Begin Roll Out, Including Women’s Preventative Care Affordable Care Act Benefits Begin Roll Out, Including Women's Preventative Care… Continue watching
Jul 05 Could Current Medicaid Recipients Lose Coverage From Supreme Court Ruling? By Betty Ann Bowser Tonight on the PBS NewsHour, our Health Unit takes a look at what's becoming a controversial part of the federal health care reform law: the expansion of Medicaid to cover up to 17 million uninsured adults. While the individual mandate… Continue reading
Jul 05 How the Medicaid Expansion Could Impact Your State By Jason Kane It was a seemingly simple concept. The United States would inch closer to universal health care by expanding the Medicaid program to about 17 million low-income people. The federal government would pick up 100 percent of the tab for the… Continue reading
Jul 03 Health Reform Views: Most Ordinary Americans Not Budging By Jason Kane Tea Party activist William Temple protests in front of he U.S. Supreme Court on the day the health care reform ruling was handed down, upholding the law. Read his opinions here and those of other Americans below. Word has… Continue reading
Jul 02 In Wake of Health Reform Decision, Medicaid Expansion in the Crosshairs By Betty Ann Bowser To hear some health officials tell it, they thought they had won the lottery back in 2010 when the Affordable Care Act was signed. Not only did it provide a mechanism for states to get more Americans to buy health… Continue reading
Jun 28 How American Health Care Could Be Shaped By Supreme Court’s Decision By Jason Kane A pro-health care reform demonstrator ties on a surgical mask outside the U.S. Supreme Court on June 25. AFP photo by Jim Watson. Two years, three months and five days. That's how long it's been since the first health care… Continue reading
Jun 27 As Health Care Decision Looms, Even Insurance Issues Are Bigger in Texas Patients wait in line to get checked in at Houston's Ben Taub General Hospital. Photo by Aaron M. Sprecher/AP Images for Kaiser Health News. HOUSTON | Last year, Luis Duran drove almost 200 miles to San Antonio to have a… Continue reading