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The health law allows insurers to charge smokers 50 percent higher premiums than nonsmokers but some states have decided not to allow that distinction in plans sold on the new online exchanges.
One-in-eight Minnesota Latinos is uninsured. As the health law rolls out, community clinics in the state will be connecting Latinos to their new insurance options.
Enroll America kicks off campaign in Florida to get people signed up for health law's insurance plans with a training session organizers.
Although much has been made about the tax credits that will help people afford to pay insurance premiums, the cost-sharing assistance can substantially reduce out-of-pocket medical expenses.
The Red Sox helped get the word out about Massachusetts' health reform in 2007, and in Colorado at least, the state is marketing its new insurance exchange to fans of the Rockies.
The federal health law requires two plans in every state, but few insurers are lining up to play.
The health law's expansion of Medicaid is putting a spotlight on how regulators monitor the performance of privately-run plans.
Companies with at least 50 workers now have until 2015 to provide coverage. Here's what that change means - and doesn't mean - for employees and employers.
The decision to give large employers an extra year to cover their workers was praised by business leaders but complicates the implementation.
Opponents of the federal health law, especially business groups and conservatives, were quick to praise the decision by the Obama administration to delay enforcing the employer mandate provision by one year. Some supporters said the decision would not create major problems.
In announcing the delay, the administration says it will give businesses time to comply and allow the government to consider simpler solutions.
KHN's insurance columnist answers readers' questions about qualifying for help paying premiums under the health law and how student health plans will be treated.
The pools are intended to help people until Jan. 1, 2014, when the federal health law's provision banning insurers from denying coverage to people with pre-existing conditions or charging them more takes effect.
Thirty-six of Mississippi's 82 counties may lack a subsidized health insurance option when a new marketplace opens this fall. Humana and Centene's Magnolia Health Plan are expected to be available the remaining counties, noted by the dots on the map.
No insurer is offering to sell plans in dozens of mostly rural counties, which would prevent residents from obtaining subsidies through a federal online marketplace.
Premiums may increase for young people, but the flip side is insurers must take all comers, broaden benefits and cap out-of-pocket costs.
Consumers can call on "navigators," trained people who will provide face-to-face assistance. Or, it is hoped, the navigators will call on them.
The administration is making a strong push to entice Hispanic Americans and legal residents to get insurance through the online insurance exchanges.
Like other types of birth control, these medications are required to be covered as a preventive benefit without cost sharing in many health plans. But to do so, women must get a prescription for the soon-to-be over-the-counter pills.
With 100 days until Obamacare marketplaces open, much work remains to be done -- here's where they stand.
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