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In a test of the Obama administration's ability to smoothly implement the sweeping health care overhaul law, officials at the Department of Health and Human Services have just 90 days to launch an insurance program for people who can't get private coverage because of health problems.
With a package of legislative changes to the health care bill on its way to President Obama, congressional Democrats have concluded work on their plan to overhaul the nation's health care system. Republicans have said they will continue in their efforts to repeal the bill while Obama and Democrats are focused on the measure's implementation.
With a package of legislative changes to the health care bill on its way to President Obama, congressional Democrats have concluded work on their plan to overhaul the nation's health care system. Republicans have said they will continue in their efforts to repeal the bill while Obama and Democrats are focused on the measure's implementation.
Health care experts say enforcement of the new health care bill will fall to the Department of Health and Human Services and the IRS. One expert says the pages of regulations could dwarf the 2,400-page bill. This story comes from our partner NPR News.
President Barack Obama's speech on health reform takes place today, in Iowa. Read his speech, as released by the White House.
The White House released the text of President Barack Obama's executive order on abortion funding and the health bill.
The Obama administration says the new health overhaul law bans insurers this year from denying coverage to kids with pre-existing illnesses. Insurers say that's not their interpretation of the law.
When President Obama signed health care overhaul into law Tuesday, did he fulfill a campaign promise to "bring health care to all?"
Lawmakers agreed in health bill to increase Medicare payments by $800 million to hospitals and doctors in a handful of states.
The White House released this transcript of remarks by President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden at the signing of the health reform bill.
The Democrats scaled back their ambitions for health overhaul legislation amid a year-long series of turbulent shifts in the political landscape.
Last night's historic vote to pass comprehensive health care legislation means a lot of things, but it does not end the health care debate in America--not by a long shot.
Health care reform promises to shift the middle ground between government and market, modestly, but in a way that will have far-reaching effects.
For all the changes put in motion by yesterday's historic vote passing health care overhaul, an expansion of coverage for tens of million of uninsured people raises a really big question: Who will take care of them all?
Late Sunday night, the House of Representatives made history by passing the Senate version of health care overhaul legislation. KHN's Mary Agnes Carey and The Fiscal Times' Eric Pianin report on the scene during the vote on Capitol Hill, what's next in the Senate and what health reform may mean for consumers.
The realities of the health care legislation do not match the hyperbole from either side. Though proponents bill the legislation as the most significant changes in the nation's health care system since the advent of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965, the Obama era coverage reforms rely on existing government programs and private insurance, and its payment reforms are variations on themes tried before without much success.
Watch President Obama's speech he made late Sunday night, after the House passed health reform legislation.
Late Sunday night, the House of Representatives made history by passing the Senate version of health care overhaul legislation. KHN's Mary Agnes Carey and The Fiscal Times' Eric Pianin report on the scene during the vote on Capitol Hill, what's next in the Senate and what health reform may mean for consumers.
The House of Representatives' passage Sunday of a health care bill was secured after President Obama issued an executive order banning the use of public funds for abortions. The order helped secure the support of Rep. Bart Stupak and other anti-abortion Democrats. This story comes from our partner NPR News
A number of provisions in the health bill would take effect within a few months. The question for Democrats is whether promoting the early changes will help them in November.
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