Jan 20 House Ways and Means Among Panels Working on Health Reform Alternatives The House Ways and Means Committee announced Thursday that its first hearing will be next Wednesday, one day after President Obama's State of the Union address. Among other tasks, Ways and Means is one of the committees charged with GOP-led… Continue reading
Jan 19 House Votes to Repeal Health Reform Law The House of Representatives voted Wednesday to repeal last year's landmark health reform legislation -- a mostly symbolic vote since the Democratic-led Senate is unlikely to pass repeal and might not even consider the measure. The final House vote was… Continue reading
Jan 19 Health Reform Debate Revisited: What’s the Tone in a New Congress? House Republicans are delivering on a campaign promise that helped fuel their many of election victories last year by debating a measure to repeal last year's health reform law. A vote should come later Wednesday. Here's Betty Ann Bowser's… Continue reading
Jan 18 House Leaders Frame Next Steps for Round 2 of Health Reform Debate On a day when debate began on the House floor over whether to repeal the health care law passed last year, Majority Leader Eric Cantor and Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer both met with the media in separate news… Continue reading
Jan 05 Health Care Reform in 2011: What to Watch _pap_embeddable('news01s46d3q101c',482,304,{ pap_usecache:true }); Republicans officially take control of the House today, and a vote to repeal the health care reform law is at the top of their agenda. But with President Obama in the White House… Continue reading
Dec 28 In California, Republicans and Democrats Work to Implement Health Care Reform While some parts of the nation are figuring out how to block national health care reform or repeal the law, California has plunged headfirst into making it work. The Republican governor and the Democratic legislature are cooperating to smooth the… Continue reading
Dec 27 Questions Over Health Care Reform as Wisconsin Moves From Blue to Red In Wisconsin, the Republican party brought home landslide victories in November -- the state went from "a sea of blue to a sea of red," as the Racine Journal-Times described it, as Republicans won the governorship and control of… Continue reading
Dec 24 Health Reform Watch: Insurer Rate Review; Debate Over ‘Lie of the Year’ New Scrutiny for Insurers The big news of the week was rate review: Beginning next year, insurers who want to raise their rates more than 10 percent will face new government scrutiny, according to regulations the Obama administration released this… Continue reading
Dec 21 New Rules Will Increase Scrutiny of Health Insurance Premium Hikes Beginning next year, health insurers who want to raise their rates by more than 10 percent will face strict new requirements to explain and make public the price increases, according to a regulation released by the Obama administration Tuesday. The… Continue reading
Dec 13 Virginia Judge Rules Major Health Reform Provision Unconstitutional Updated 4:02 p.m. Federal judge Henry Hudson ruled Monday afternoon that a major provision of the health care reform law is unconstitutional, setting up a legal battle that will likely end at the Supreme Court. In his decision, the… Continue reading