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Health exchange countdown: Insurers, regulators test drive new plans, TV ads

News outlets report on how the health law's online health insurance marketplaces will work, the products that will be available through them and the efforts to enroll millions of uninsured or underinsured people.

16 Jul 2013

Ripple effect of employer mandate delay seen on policies, politics

Politico reports on how the Obama administration's decision may create some difficulties for employers. Other media outlets detail how Republicans will try to capitalize on it this week on Capitol Hill.

16 Jul 2013

Health law opponents using campaign-style maneuvers

NBC News looks at the political tactics of conservatives hoping to derail the health overhaul. Meanwhile, one senator's attempt fails to cut funding and stop implementation.

16 Jul 2013

Federal appeals court upholds health law's employer mandate

A panel of the 4th Circuit threw out a lawsuit from Liberty University that challenged both the law's requirement of large employers to provide insurance for workers and the administration's contraception coverage requirement.

15 Jul 2013

Obamacare implementation issues: Rollout resembles some of the problems of Medicare Part D

NPR examines how the implementation of that last big government health program might offer lessons for the health law. Also, two stories explore outreach to people needing insurance and the grocery chain Wegmans reportedly is cutting health benefits to part-time workers.

15 Jul 2013

Viewpoints: GOP should focus on fixing health law; bishops refuse to accept victory

Los Angeles Times: It's Time To Focus On Fixing The Affordable Care Act, Not Gutting It Conservatives have married their political fortunes to the notion that Obamacare is a catastrophe and must be discarded in its entirety - even though some of the signature elements of the law, such as a requirement that most people be insured, are ideas that they originated.

15 Jul 2013

State highlights: N.Y. expects $20M savings with psychiatric care overhaul; $4M settlement in Mich. over heart procedures

New York plans to overhaul its psychiatric services over the next four years by consolidating 24 inpatient hospitals into 15 regional centers and establishing two dozen outpatient hubs. The plan released to The Associated Press by the Office of Mental Health on Wednesday begins in 2014 and is expected to save $20 million the first year (7/10).

12 Jul 2013

House Republicans, Dems spar over employer mandate delay; Senate GOP petitioning president for 'permanent delay' of Obamacare

Encouraged by the administration's delay of the employer mandate provision by one year, Republicans were active on both sides of Capitol Hill Tuesday, renewing their calls for repeal.

12 Jul 2013

Community health centers get $150 million to help enroll people in new marketplaces

Community health centers across the country will share in $150 million in grants that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Wednesday will help them enroll up to 3.7 million Americans in the new marketplaces this fall. HHS on Wednesday announced that 1,200 centers will get at least $59,000 each, money available through the health care law (Bunis, 7/10).

12 Jul 2013

House Republicans promise new efforts to fight health law’s individual mandate

Speaker John Boehner vows to hold a vote this month to remove the requirement that Americans get insurance, and some in the GOP suggest they could attach the effort to bills raising the U.S. debt limit.

11 Jul 2013

Minn., Texas, Colo., other states adapting to health law in different ways

News outlets covered how various states are ramping up health exchanges, or not, and expanding Medicaid, or not.

11 Jul 2013

Restaurant owner welcomes delay on law’s insurance requirement

The New York Times profiles the challenges that one business owner faced with the health law. Other outlets offer news on the law, including the problems the administration faces in setting up the online marketplaces, concerns about scams targeting consumers and help for Medicare beneficiaries.

11 Jul 2013

Viewpoints: Employer mandate: Suspension of the law or bump in the road?

Columnists and editorial boards examine the implications of the postponed employer mandate deadline. In a nutshell, the administration could not figure out how to make sure that businesses with more than 50 full-time employees are providing a minimum level of health insurance.

10 Jul 2013

Study: Some current Medicaid enrollees may not qualify for benefits that newly enrolled will get

George Washington researchers find that key preventive services included in the health law and slated for millions who will get coverage in the law's Medicaid expansion may not be extended to people already covered by Medicaid.

10 Jul 2013

Administration defends Obamacare, employer mandate delay decision

Sebelius is on the defensive more than ever now that the White House has delayed a major provision of the law that requires larger employers to offer health insurance to full-time employees. Republicans say she has given a far too rosy picture of progress in carrying out the law. And they are demanding that she explain why people should be required to carry insurance next year if employers are not required to offer it. In her zeal to make the health care law work, Ms. Sebelius has tested the limits of her authority. After Congress refused to provide as much as she wanted for a nationwide campaign publicizing the new insurance options, she shuffled money between government accounts and sought cash from outside groups (Pear, 7/8).

10 Jul 2013

Delay of employer mandate: 'Astonishing decision;' 'No bearing' on much of health law; Implementation turning into 'fiasco for the ages'

Commentators both for and against the health overhaul offered assessments of the administration's move, and the politics that surround it.

9 Jul 2013

AMA president says docs group will do 'whatever we can' on the health law

In an interview, Ardis Dee Hoven, the American Medical Association's new president, says that there is no formal role, but that the organization has been in touch with the Obama administration about how physicians can help patients get the information they need. Meanwhile, The Hill reports on a consumer survey that finds the health overhaul is not a consistent topic of conversation between doctors and patients.

4 Jul 2013

Employers get extra year to carry out health law coverage mandate

The Obama administration's surprise announcement will delay penalties for one year -- until after the mid-term elections -- and raises doubts about the implementation process at a crucial moment. Officials said the extension was a response to business requests for more time to navigate complex regulations.

4 Jul 2013

Political responses swirl around administration's announcement

As GOP lawmakers and health law critics gloat, administration officials say they are listening to concerns from business and being flexible.

4 Jul 2013

Many uninsured don't know they must buy coverage next year

News outlets report on a poll finding that more than 40 percent of the uninsured are unaware they could be required to buy health coverage in 2014, while another study calculates how many young people are benefiting from the provision allowing adult children to stay on their parents' policies up to age 26.

3 Jul 2013

Health Reform News and Research

Health exchange countdown: Insurers, regulators test drive new plans, TV ads

Ripple effect of employer mandate delay seen on policies, politics

Health law opponents using campaign-style maneuvers

Federal appeals court upholds health law's employer mandate

Obamacare implementation issues: Rollout resembles some of the problems of Medicare Part D

Viewpoints: GOP should focus on fixing health law; bishops refuse to accept victory

State highlights: N.Y. expects $20M savings with psychiatric care overhaul; $4M settlement in Mich. over heart procedures

House Republicans, Dems spar over employer mandate delay; Senate GOP petitioning president for 'permanent delay' of Obamacare

Community health centers get $150 million to help enroll people in new marketplaces

House Republicans promise new efforts to fight health law’s individual mandate

Minn., Texas, Colo., other states adapting to health law in different ways

Restaurant owner welcomes delay on law’s insurance requirement

Viewpoints: Employer mandate: Suspension of the law or bump in the road?

Study: Some current Medicaid enrollees may not qualify for benefits that newly enrolled will get

Administration defends Obamacare, employer mandate delay decision

Delay of employer mandate: 'Astonishing decision;' 'No bearing' on much of health law; Implementation turning into 'fiasco for the ages'

AMA president says docs group will do 'whatever we can' on the health law

Employers get extra year to carry out health law coverage mandate

Political responses swirl around administration's announcement

Many uninsured don't know they must buy coverage next year

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