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Small Businesses Wanting a Tax Break Next Week Should Check Out Obamacare

Wendell Potter | Posted 04.08.2013 | Business
Wendell Potter

With April 15 approaching, some small business owners who provide health coverage to their workers are not going to be as indebted to Uncle Sam as they have in years past, thanks to Obamacare. That's right, thanks to Obamacare.

Affordable Care Act at 3: Looking Forward and Expanding Access

Sec. Kathleen Sebelius | Posted 03.22.2013 | Healthy Living
Sec. Kathleen Sebelius

Americans are getting more value for their health care dollars due to the health care law. Affordable Care Act initiatives are promoting coordinated care; paying for quality, not quantity; and dramatically reducing fraud and waste, contributing to the slowest growth in national health spending in 50 years.

What's Up With Health Reform?

Linda Bergthold | Posted 05.21.2013 | Politics
Linda Bergthold

What is actually going on with health reform? Is it really going to happen? Yes it is. But it will mean different things for different people. Here's what it might mean for some of you.

GOP Lawmaker's Bizarre Rosa Parks Interpetation

The Huffington Post | John Celock | Posted 03.15.2013 | Politics

A Republican lawmaker in Idaho compared his fight against Obamacare to civil rights leader Rosa Parks, saying that both of them are examples of champi...

How the Health Care Law Protects You

Sec. Kathleen Sebelius | Posted 05.04.2013 | Healthy Living
Sec. Kathleen Sebelius

Today marks the beginning of National Consumer Protection Week, which makes this the perfect time to talk about some of the new rights and protections Americans have under the Affordable Care Act.

Producers Still Needed in Hollywood, But in Health Care Their Days Are Numbered

Wendell Potter | Posted 04.27.2013 | Politics
Wendell Potter

A recent story out of Oklahoma shows just how vital investigative journalists are -- and how health insurance agents and brokers may be anything but vital in just a matter of months.

A Vision for a Rising, Thriving Middle Class

Sec. Kathleen Sebelius | Posted 04.17.2013 | Politics
Sec. Kathleen Sebelius

In his State of the Union address, President Obama outlined his vision for a growing American economy driven by a rising, thriving middle class. It's a bold plan that builds on the achievements of his first term to promote opportunity for every American.

Countdown to Affordable Health Insurance

Sec. Kathleen Sebelius | Posted 04.01.2013 | Healthy Living
Sec. Kathleen Sebelius

This is an historic time for those Americans who never had health insurance, who had to go without insurance after losing a job or becoming sick, or who had been turned down because of a pre-existing condition.

Health Care Exchanges To Transform Market

AP | The Associated Press | Posted 01.27.2013 | Politics

-- Health insurance exchanges will change the way people buy coverage and will help millions of uninsured people get a private plan. Nearly 49 millio...

John Celock

Obamacare Foe's Aide Gears Up Run For Key Post

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 12.11.2012 | Politics

Kansas' moderate Republican insurance commissioner, Sandy Praeger, who supported setting up a state-run health care exchange, is planning not to seek ...

Tennessee Needs Its Own Health Insurance Exchange

Manoj Jain, MD MPH | Posted 02.03.2013 | Politics
Manoj Jain, MD MPH

The option for Tennessee is not whether to have an exchange; it must do so under the new law. The option is whether Tennessee should craft its own exchange or default to the federal exchange.

Perry Rejects Insurance Exchange Under Obamacare

The Huffington Post | Mollie Reilly | Posted 11.16.2012 | Politics

Rick Perry joined a growing list of Republican governors who have refused to go along with a key component of President Obama's health care law when h...

Jon Ward

Governor Jindal Confirms No On Health Care Exchange, Suggests Medicaid Premium Support

HuffingtonPost.com | Jon Ward | Posted 11.14.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- While other Republican governors are starting to back away from their opposition to implementing a key part of President Obama's health ...

Feds Moving Ahead With Obamacare Despite GOP Opposition

AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 10.06.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON — Republican governors who've balked at creating new private insurance markets under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul ma...

Secretary Sebelius: Time to Tour Country Explaining How the Affordable Health Care Act Works

Paul Abrams | Posted 10.06.2012 | Politics
Paul Abrams

Now that the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Healthcare Act has been established, people need to know how it is going to work for them.

Is Alaska Punting on Health Care?

AlaskaDispatch.com | Posted 09.24.2012 | Politics
AlaskaDispatch.com

Alaska Governor Sean Parnell's resistance to federal meddling in Alaska business makes his recent decision all the more contradictory.

Perry's Stand Against Obamacare Hurts Uninsured

The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 07.09.2012 | Politics

Texas will not expand Medicaid or implement a state health exchange following the Supreme Court's upholding of the constitutionality of Obamacare, Gov...

Nikki Haley's 'Misery' Plan Blasted By Dems

St. Andrews Patch | Meagean Dugger | Posted 09.04.2012 | Politics

Dick Harpootlian, chairman of the S.C. Democratic Party, said: "This is a preening politician's publicity stunt and is typical with Nikki Haley. This ...

John Celock

Dem To Kansas GOP Governor: 'Grow Up'

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 06.29.2012 | Politics

With the Supreme Court's decision to uphold the health care law, the focus now shifts to the states, whose leaders are charged with implementing porti...

Cuomo Orders Health Care Exchange, Though Obamacare Under Review

Posted 04.13.2012 | New York

Governor Andrew Cuomo issued an executive order Thursday creating a health care exchange in New York, an online marketplace where consumers can shop f...

John Celock

States Delay Insurance Exchanges, Hoping Supreme Court Strikes Down Health Care Law

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 03.22.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- The nation's lieutenant governors were advised to focus on the quality of health care delivery, along with potential insurance challenge...

Ryan Plan Strangely Resembles Obama's

AP | By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 03.21.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- A new Republican budget would repeal President Barack Obama's health care overhaul but put future retirees in a version of Medicare that...

Obama Administration Releases Ambitious Health Care Law Blueprint

AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 05.12.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON — Fifty million people in America lack health insurance and the law says most of them must soon be provided coverage. But how to del...

John Celock

'Conservatives On Steroids' Block Funding

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 02.16.2012 | Politics

The growing ideological rift in the Kansas Republican Party has engulfed the implementation of the federal health care reform law, leaving the future ...

Dem Senator Calls For Federal Investigation Of Nikki Haley

The State | Adam Bean | Posted 12.23.2011 | Politics

U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, has called for a federal investigation into “whether Gov. Nikki Haley exploited taxpayer dollars for political purpose...