Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

CO-OPs could be one of the sleepers in the health care reform law that truly transforms how care is financed and delivered in this country. And they could even hasten the day when the big investor-owned corporations cede the marketplace to nonprofits and move on to other ways of earning a profit.

Among scholars who want the U.S. Supreme Court changed, most want term limits, not elections. The reason seems obvious, given the politics of the day.

The individual mandate is a distraction from the real issue that the health care reform law didn't fix: health care is too expensive and unaffordable.

By extending health care coverage to new, under-served groups, the ACA squarely responds to concerns repeatedly raised by international human rights bodies and experts about racial disparities in U.S. health care policy.

By week's end, America will have witnessed a deeply serious and probably quite revealing conversation about the Constitution and what it might mean 225 years after it was written.

The "good old days" weren't. The health of Americans and access to care was much worse before Medicare and Medicaid were instituted in the 1960s, and don't let any (affluent) historical revisionists tell you otherwise.

For many observers, the key to its outcome is in the pens of the five Republican-appointed justices who, it is thought, are far more likely than four Democratic-appointed justices to strike down the law, passed by Congress in 2010.

As a favor to struggling Americans, Rep. Paul Ryan proposed a federal budget last week ravaging programs for the poor, elderly, disabled, young, veterans, jobless, students and other vulnerable people. Ryan did it, he said, because these programs are demeaning.

The Affordable Care Act has given all of us new rights. We cannot afford to forget why we fought so hard to win them in the first place. It's new land and territory definitely worth continuing to paddle for.

Like all two-year olds, the ACA is still growing, and some of its happiest days are still a year or two away. And also like many two-year olds, some observers can only see the growing pains, not the progress.

However the Supreme Court rules, it will be economically and politically unwise to scrap vital elements of a healthcare law that provides important consumer protections.

This landmark piece of legislation brings 30 million Americans into a healthcare system that includes affordable family-planning services, better access to contraception, and maternity care.

Two years after the president signed the Affordable Care Act, the justices of the Supreme Court are poised to weigh in with their opinions about the f...

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration trumpeted a near-milestone Thursday for the Affordable Care Act's fledgling program for people with pre-existin...

Sadly, little public attention is being paid to the regulatory decisions being made right now by the Department of Health and Human Services that could determine whether President Obama's signature achievement can meet its promise of enrolling every American in a qualified health plan.

If ever there was a get-out-of-town case, this one is it: Department of Health and Human Services v. Florida, the case that challenges the constituti...

On Monday morning, the Supreme Court announced that it will consider the constitutionality of the Obama health care reform law this term, guaranteeing...

Until we seek common ground and political solutions based on common sense and shared interest, we will continue to stage political jousting matches like the ones recently conducted in Ohio, only to find ourselves back where we started and the problems largely unresolved.

The time is now to stop debating the entire Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and to begin influencing the parts that will directly impact you and your family.