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Your Money: How to play Obama’s health care in the market – Philadelphia Daily News

April 3rd, 2012 No comments

The nation watched our Supreme Court last week entertain arguments over the legality of the Obama health-care plan, which in 2014 will mandate that all Americans have health insurance or pay a penalty. So we wanted to highlight some health-care …

Sense of Peril for Health Law Gives Insurers Pause – New York Times

April 2nd, 2012 No comments

As the Supreme Court considers the constitutionality of the federal health care law, one option that had seemed unthinkable to its designers and supporters now seems at least possible: that the court could strike down the entire law. Although it …

Health mandate wouldn’t be first – Daily Hampshire Gazette

April 2nd, 2012 No comments

WASHINGTON – The individual insurance requirement that the Supreme Court is reviewing isn’t the first federal mandate involving health care. There’s a Medicare payroll tax on workers and employers, for example, and a requirement that hospitals …

Ore. health overhaul plans about to be clearer – msnbc.com

April 2nd, 2012 No comments

SALEM — The Oregon Legislature has bought into Gov. John Kitzhaber’s ideas for redesigning the state’s health care system for low-income patients. Now, it’s about to become plain how many Oregon doctors, hospitals and other care providers are ready to put …