
Study: Health law to raise claims cost 32 percent
A new study finds that insurance companies will have to pay out an average of 32 percent more for medical claims on individual health policies under ...

Study: Health overhaul to raise claims cost 32 pct
Insurance companies will have to pay out an average of 32 percent more for medical claims on individual health policies under President Barack Obama's ...

GOP's 'no' on Medicaid becomes "Let's make a deal'
Given the choice of whether to expand Medicaid under President Barack Obama's health care law, many Republican governors and lawmakers initially ...
House passes bill forbidding welfare waivers
Renewing a political fight from last year's presidential campaign, House Republicans passed a bill Wednesday that would prevent the Obama ...

SPIN METER: A dubious list of budget 'horribles'
President Barack Obama and his officials are doing their best to drum up public concern over the shock wave of spending cuts that could strike the ...
Florida to expand Medicaid under health overhaul
Gov. Rick Scott announced plans Wednesday to expand Medicaid coverage to roughly 900,000 more people under the federal health overhaul, a surprise ...
Kansas homeowners fight Brownback plan to end tax
Brian Jones has been an admirer of Republican Sam Brownback's fiscal conservatism going back to Brownback's days as an anti-tax congressman in the ...

States' choices set up national health experiment
President Barack Obama's health care overhaul is unfolding as a national experiment with American consumers as the guinea pigs: Who will do a better ...
NIH chief: Cuts put vital medical research at risk
Better cancer drugs that zero in on a tumor with fewer side effects. A universal flu vaccine that could fight every strain of influenza without ...

Obama offers faith groups new birth control rule
Facing a wave of lawsuits over what government can tell religious groups to do, the Obama administration is proposing a compromise for faith-based ...

THE RESET: Familiar faces on Obama's 2nd-term team
President Barack Obama is much of the way through completing his second-term Cabinet and top White House staff. For many of those chosen so far, it's ...

Consumer alert: new health care markets on the way
Buying your own health insurance will never be the same. This fall, new insurance markets called exchanges will open in each state, marking the ...

After shootings, states rethink mental health cuts
Dozens of states have slashed spending on mental health care over the last four years, driven by the recession's toll on revenue and, in some cases, ...

Will Obama's order lead to surge in gun research?
Nearly as many Americans die from guns as from car crashes each year. We know plenty about the second problem and far less about the first. A scarcity ...

Obama deflects criticism about lack of diversity
Deflecting criticism about a perceived lack of diversity in his second-term Cabinet, President Barack Obama on Monday urged Americans not to rush to ...

Obama Cabinet shuffle taking shape
The composition of President Barack Obama's second term Cabinet became clearer Wednesday, with Labor Secretary Hilda Solis resigning and three other ...

White House tries to keep momentum on gun control
Less than a month after a horrific elementary school shooting, the White House is fighting to keep the momentum for new gun legislation amid signs ...

GOP governors walk balance beam on health law
Florida Gov. Rick Scott, who made a fortune as a health care executive, long opposed President Barack Obama's remake of the health insurance market.

Obama to send Congress gun proposals in January
Declaring the time for action overdue, President Barack Obama promised on Wednesday to send Congress broad proposals in January for tightening gun ...

Gun control gets unlikely backers on Capitol Hill
Prominent gun-rights advocates in Congress are now calling for a national discussion about restrictions to curb gun violence, signaling that the ...

Rice withdrawal sparks gender concerns on Cabinet
The top contenders for the "big three" jobs in President Barack Obama's second-term Cabinet are all white men, rekindling concerns among Democratic ...

Time for states to decide on health care exchanges
Nineteen states have turned down the Obama administration's invitation to run the new health insurance markets that will begin serving millions of ...

Spending cuts shadow Obama meeting with tribes
Hours after talking tough against Republicans in "fiscal cliff" negotiations, President Barack Obama and members of his Cabinet reassured hundreds of ...

Brinksmanship on Obama Medicaid expansion for poor
It's health care brinksmanship, with hundreds of billions of dollars and the well-being of millions of people at stake. President Barack Obama's ...
HHS details overhaul rules and required benefits
The Obama administration has strengthened the prescription drug coverage that will be available to the millions of people who will get insurance ...