Emily Spitzer

The throngs of lawyers, protesters and advocates have all gone home. They'll now hold their collective breath until the Supreme Court delivers its verdict, most likely in June. What's decided will affect our political and legal system forever and reverberate throughout our health care system and every aspect of American...

The most sweeping domestic legislative achievement in a generation is in the Supreme court this week, and all eyes are on the centerpiece of the health care reform law: the individual mandate.

First off, let's call the mandate what it really is: an individual responsibility requirement for the people...

I have a friend who is a firm believer in the concept of a birthday week; in her view, a single day just isn't enough for celebrating.

She would love the party that's happening this week to celebrate the second anniversary of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or...

Briefs are beginning to pile up in the Supreme Court decrying or defending the constitutionality of the Affordable Care and Patient Protection Act, known in my circles as the ACA but to headline writers across the country as Obamacare.

For us wonks, there is a lot to wade through...

I spent a good part of the morning watching and listening to discussion of the Obama administration's new compromise position on contraception coverage in insurance plans offered by private religiously-affiliated institutions like hospitals and universities.

For those of you who missed it, under the new compromise religiously affiliated institutions...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services caused quite a stir recently when it made final a rule requiring private insurance plans to cover basic preventive services without an additional co-pay or deductible starting in 2012.

Why all the fuss? Among those preventive services -- which include activities such...

Plan B is the simplest birth control pill there is -- it's a morning after pill for women. One pill, taken the morning after sexual intercourse, prevents pregnancy. Indeed, the pill's simplicity is what's made it a target.

That's why eyebrows were raised when Health and Human Services Secretary...