Health Insurance Exchanges Explained
Last week's election may have settled the fate of the federal Affordable Care Act, but its implementation after months of uncertainty has caught many of the players unprepared.
View ArticleColorado Embraces Health Insurance Exchanges
Colorado has been moving to set up an insurance exchange since the health care law was passed. The government, insurance industry and the hospitals say they are glad their work over the last year has...
View ArticleHealth Care Cuts Are Coming. Here's Where Liberals Say You Can Slice
A liberal think-tank closely allied with the Obama administration is proposing a health care spending plan it says could save hundreds of billions of dollars in entitlement spending without hurting...
View ArticleHealth Exchange Activity Heats Up As Deadline Approaches
There's nothing quite like a deadline to focus the mind. Even a deadline that's not quite real. Friday was originally the day that states were supposed to not only tell the federal government whether...
View ArticleAdministration Lays Down Rules For Future Health Insurance
You've got questions about the health law? The Obama administration has some answers. Finally. Now that the Supreme Court has found the Affordable Care Act constitutional and the president's...
View ArticleHave Some Questions About The Colorado Health Exchange? Here Are Some Answers
Colorado’s health exchange – due to come online in October 2013 – is expecting 960,000 customers within three years of startup.
View ArticleFor Tea Party Activists In Florida, The Health Care Battle Goes On
President Obama's re-election sent a message to state capitals: The war over the president's health care overhaul is finished.Even in Florida, where Republican leaders led the legal battle against...
View ArticleFeds Say 'No' To Partial Medicaid Expansion
The Affordable Care Act, as passed by Congress in 2010, assumed that every low-income person would have access to health insurance starting in 2014.That's when about 17 million Americans — mostly...
View ArticleError Of The Year: CNN And Fox News Share The Dishonor
We didn't make the list, and boy are we glad.CNN and Fox News share the shame of the Poynter Institute's "error of the year" for mistakenly telling their audiences that the Supreme Court had struck...
View ArticleMost States Punt Health Exchanges To The Feds
Few people expected that the Obama administration would be running health exchanges in more than 30 states when the federal health law was signed two years ago.But with the deadline for states to...
View ArticleThe Gun Lobby's Favorite Part Of The Health Law
Did you know the Affordable Care Act stands up for gun rights? The "Protection of Second Amendment Gun Rights"section says the health law's wellness programs can't require participants to give...
View ArticleHobby Lobby Plans To Defy Health Care Mandate
Transcript STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: This New Year could mean a new cost for the craft store chain Hobby Lobby. The federal health care law requires employee insurance plans to cover emergency...
View ArticleWhat The Health Law Will Bring In 2013
Most of the really big changes made by the 2010 health law don't start for another year. That includes things like a ban on restricting pre-existing conditions, and required insurance coverage for most...
View ArticlePete Stark, Health Policy Warrior, Leaves A Long Legacy
The 113th Congress will be the first one in 40 years to convene without California Rep. Pete Stark as a member.Stark was defeated in November by a fellow Democrat under new California voting rules....
View ArticleUtah And 6 Other States Get Feds' OK To Run Insurance Exchanges
In a surprise, the Obama administration said Thursday that it has given Utah a conditional OK to run its own health insurance marketplace.Utah Gov.
View ArticleEstimated Costs Drive Debate As Florida Weighs Medicaid Expansion
Florida and several other states are wrestling with a decision: whether to expand Medicaid.When the Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act last year, the court said states could opt out of that...
View ArticleBusinesses Sue Government Over Birth Control Mandate
When Congress passed the Affordable Care Act in 2010, few would have predicted that one of the most contentious provisions would have to do with contraception.But today federal officials are grappling...
View ArticleLaw Expands Kids' Dental Coverage, But Few Dentists Will Treat Them
Kids may not exactly jump for joy to learn that the health care overhaul makes it easier for them to get their teeth cleaned, filled and straightened.Tooth decay ranks as the No. 1 chronic disease in...
View ArticleWhole Foods Founder John Mackey On Fascism and 'Conscious Capitalism'
Whole Foods has played a key role in propelling organic foods into the mainstream. The specialty supermarket chain has more than 300 stores and plans to continue expanding.
View ArticleCalling Obamacare 'Facisim' Was 'Poor Choice Of Words,' Whole Foods CEO Says
When The Salt posted Wednesday that Whole Foods CEO John Mackey told Morning Edition that President Obama's health care overhaul isn't socialism, it's "fascism," there was quite a response.
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