Jun 27 Health Care Reform: Decision Day Live Coverage By News Desk In a decision that changed the course of American health care for years to come, the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday morning decided to uphold the individual insurance requirement of the Affordable Care Act. We'll keep you up to speed… 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
Jun 27 Of Health Care, Haircuts and Broccoli By Betty Ann Bowser It was just a routine haircut. But before it was over, I found myself engaged in a donnybrook with a beauty salon of women from both the left and right in their political thinking, all preaching to each other about… Continue reading
Jun 27 Primer: Supreme Court’s Health Reform Ruling Expected Thursday By Jason Kane Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images Updated June 27 | The "best-kept secret in Washington" is about to go public. Three months after the Supreme Court's hearings on the health care reform law, the justices are expected to announce their decision… Continue reading
Jun 22 What’s at Stake for Your Insurance as Supreme Court Weighs Health Reform? By Julie Appleby The Supreme Court is expected to hand down its ruling on the health care reform law some time next week. The Supreme Court's decision to uphold or strike down the health law could bolster -- or undo -- the most… Continue reading
Jun 21 What’s at Stake for Medicaid as Supreme Court Weighs Health Reform? By Phil Galewitz Medical assistant Ann Valdez gives Christian Casteneda, 12, a physical at a community health center in Aurora, Colo. The clinic has received some 6,000 more Medicaid eligable patients since the health care reform law was passed in 2010. Photo by… Continue reading
Jun 20 What’s at Stake for Seniors as Supreme Court Weighs Health Reform? Registered nurse Susan Eager, discusses medication with patient Helen Ricci, 96, during a house call in Denver, Colorado. Photo by John Moore/Getty Images. If the Supreme Court strikes down the health law, 49 million Medicare beneficiaries could lose a variety… Continue reading
Jun 19 What’s at Stake for Women as Supreme Court Weighs Health Reform? By Julie Appleby Demonstrators for and against the health care reform law march outside the U.S. Supreme Court building on the morning of one of the hearings in March. A provision in the 2010 health care law requiring contraceptive coverage for women without… Continue reading
Jun 18 What’s at Stake for Patients as Supreme Court Weighs Health Reform? By Jordan Rau Since the health care law passed two years ago, government, states, insurers, doctors and hospitals have been building a complex scaffolding to extend insurance to 30 million more Americans. A U.S. Supreme Court decision expected later this month could eliminate… Continue reading
Jun 15 A Consumer’s Guide to the Health Care Reform Law By mcarey A Supreme Court decision is expected within the next two weeks on challenges to the 2010 federal health law. Parts of the law have already been implemented but the bulk of it won't take effect until 2014. Here's a look… Continue reading