Healthcare Reform news and information

President Barack Obama referred to Republican efforts to repeal the healthcare reform law as an “ideological fixation” during a White House news conference Friday.
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House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) is vowing to prevent a vote on immigration reform even though the latest reports from Capitol Hill suggest as many as 40 or 50 Republicans are willing to back some version of the legislation that passed the Senate last June.
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With the Oct. 1 date for enrollment in the health insurance exchanges being created by Obamacare less than two months away, a war of numbers has been escalating. Health insurance will cost way less. Or it will cost way more. It depends who you ask.
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The New York Times ran a quietly subversive news story Wednesday about how members of Congress and their aides will receive health coverage under the Office of Personnel Management's new proposed rule interpreting a controversial Obamacare provision.
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Sandy McCoy, president of the Texas Nurse Practitioners, listened to Judge Clay Jenkins at the Enroll Dallas County Partnership Stakeholders Meeting. With an unveiling a little more than 50 days away, many of the key details about the new health insurance marketplace remain under wraps.
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Over the past three years, insurance groups have waged an intense but little-noticed effort to regulate navigators in the states, leading to the passage of 16 state laws in the past year and a half.
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HHS is preparing to award $54 million in grants to navigators—organizations that will provide impartial information about signing up for coverage on the state health insurance exchanges.
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HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said the Obama administration is open to talks with Texas about expanded healthcare for the poor.
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With less than eight weeks to go before the official launch of insurance exchanges under the federal health law, backers of the law are ramping up to encourage people to sign up. But there's another effort gearing up this month as well. Opponents of the healthcare law are making one last-ditch...
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Groups seeking to protect patients with chronic conditions from an increase in out-of-pocket spending beyond the limits set in the reform law aren't happy with a response from the Labor Department.
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