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Our panelists, who answered questions from readers that even the justices didn't ask, includes KHN Senior Correspondent Mary Agnes Carey; Stuart Taylor, attorney, author and KHN legal analyst; Tom Goldstein, Goldstein & Russell, P.C., and publisher of SCOTUSblog; and Julie Rovner, health policy correspondent, NPR.
Here are some of the highlights from the Supreme Court's Wednesday afternoon session during which they pondered questions about the health law's Medicaid expansion.
The fate of the health law is at the center of the most-anticipated arguments in more than than a generation. Here are key points to keep in mind while watching the action.
Free health clinics have long been places people turn to when they don't have health insurance or any money to pay for care. But the health law's expansion of coverage puts free clinics in uncharted territory.
KHN's Marilyn Werber Serafini and Mary Agnes Carey discuss the budget Wis. Republican Rep. Paul Ryan released today and how it differs from the proposal he released last year.
Even as Florida leads the Supreme Court challenge against the health law, a private and a public hospital are anticipating an influx of new patients who will be covered by Medicaid if the law stands.
KHN's Marilyn Werber Serafini details how the Wisconsin Republican's proposal places greater limits on federal spending for Medicare than last year's blueprint.
Texas has the highest rate of uninsured residents -- 25 percent -- while Massachusetts' is the lowest -- less than 2 percent. We profile two people who are living the reality of that difference.
Gov. Malloy has proposed letting supervised home health aides give medication to Medicaid patients.
The long-awaited rules may disappoint consumer groups which had sought to reduce the clout of insurers on the governing boards.
The revolving door at the top of the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services raises questions about the key agency implementing the health law.
An eBay merchant who sells funny barbecue aprons out of his living room is better equipped to send information electronically than many physicians. Farzad Mostashari is the guy trying to change that.
An interactive chart shows where eight of the current and former candidates - Gingrich, Paul, Romney, Santorum, Bachmann, Cain, Huntsman and Perry - stand on major health care issues.
New CEO John Haupert says federal and state efforts to trim the health care program for low-income residents could harm his safety-net hospital.
KHN's Mary Agnes Carey talks with Jackie Judd about the agreement Senate and House negotiators reached today on the "doc fix," which avoids a cut in Medicare physician payment rates for the rest of the year.
Unique in the nation for having public health insurance plans that are run by counties, California has public plans that stretch from San Francisco to the Mexican border and cover 2.5 million people.
Martha Norris, 62, depends on Napa Valley Adult Day Services in Napa, Calif. The program and others like it throughout the state have narrowly escaped elimination due to state budget cuts.
The 'Insurance Capital' bucks the nationwide trend of states turning to private managed care plans.
KHN reporters preview some of the big issues coming this year: KHN Web Reporter Sarah Barr discusses what waivers states could seek to change Medicare in their states.
KHN reporters preview some of the big issues coming this year: KHN Senior Correspondent Phil Galewitz says he'll be following health care in the states, Medicaid and how the Supreme Court will rule on the health law.
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