News coverage, opinion and information on health care reform and health care policy including the Affordable Care Act.
By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
House Republicans powered through a bill Tuesday to ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, saying the recent conviction of a Philadelphia abortion provider for killing newborn babies has revived the contentious debate. Published June 18, 2013
By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
The Senate immigration bill will be good for the U.S. economy as a whole, but for individual workers the picture is not as good — in fact, unemployment will rise slightly and average wages will drop over the next decade, according to the Congressional Budget Office's analysis Monday. Published June 19, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
Sen. Mike Lee's new book, "Why John Roberts Was Wrong About Healthcare," includes a dramatic theory — that the leading Supreme Court justice did not want to rule in favor of Obamacare but was pressured and intimidated. Published June 19, 2013
By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
Enroll America, the nonprofit that is leading the charge in promoting President Obama's health care law, announced on Tuesday it has launched a nationwide campaign to help the uninsured learn about benefits and subsidies that take effect next year. Published June 18, 2013
By Patrice Hill - The Washington Times
President Obama's health care reform is prompting employers to hire more part-time and temporary workers to escape paying benefits under a mandate that goes into effect next year, amplifying a trend toward transient employment that took hold during the recession, according to a growing number of economic indicators. Published June 16, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
New York City mayor hopeful Anthony Weiner had an Al Gore-type moment earlier this week when he took credit for coining the term used to describe the nation's health care overhaul: Obamacare. Published June 14, 2013
By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times
Being accepted to medical school was once seen as a ticket to a prosperous and fulfilling career, but today's students face far less certain futures under Obamacare. Published June 11, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
The Ohio Department of Insurance predicts premiums in 2014 will rise by 88 percent, a direct result of President Obama's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Published June 11, 2013
By Ben Wolfgang and Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
President Obama still harbors deep reservations about letting young girls buy the morning-after pill without a prescription, even though his administration has decided against fighting a court order that forces it to do just that, his spokesman said Tuesday. Published June 11, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
The family of an 11-year-old boy awaiting a new lung has won a federal judge's support, and now his name could be permanently added to an adult transplant list. Published June 7, 2013
By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times
With Democrats worried that too few people will sign up for "Obamacare" to make it a success, President Obama will urge Hispanics in California Friday to enroll for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act. Published June 7, 2013
By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
While most Americans next year will have to grapple with the intricacies of President Obama's health law and the "individual mandate" requiring residents to have health insurance, Mr. Edwards and more than 160,000 others who use health-sharing ministries will be exempt. They're one of nine exemptions built into the health care law. Published June 6, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
A federal judge told Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to reverse course — a 10-year-old girl dying from cystic fibrosis should be added to the adult lung transplant list. Published June 6, 2013
By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
A federal appeals court on Wednesday ordered the Obama administration to make a generic, two-pill version of emergency contraception available to women of all ages without restrictions. Published June 5, 2013
By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
A Georgia congressman said Wednesday he will try, once again, to push a health care bill that offers a "patient-centered" alternative to President Obama's sweeping reforms — one that includes tax breaks to make insurance affordable without imposing government mandates on Americans. Published June 5, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
"Obamacare" has some special benefits just for members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered community, Health and Human Service Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said. Published June 4, 2013
By Kristen Wyatt - Associated Press
In the most prominent challenge of its kind, Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. is asking a federal appeals court Thursday for an exemption from part of the federal health care law that requires it to offer employees health coverage that includes access to the morning-after pill. Published May 23, 2013
By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
As her fellow House Republicans took another symbolic vote Friday to repeal President Obama’s health care law, Rep. Diane Black, Tennessee Republican, filed a bill that prohibits the Internal Revenue Service from targeting political groups with any data obtained by carrying out the overhaul. Published May 17, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
Prepare your wallet. Health premiums are set to rise by as much as 400 percent under Obamacare. That's according to a new report from the House Energy and Commerce Committee released this week that uses information from the nation's largest health insurance companies to estimate the emerging costs of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Published May 14, 2013
By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
A federal judge in New York rebuked the Obama administration on Friday and said the federal government will not get a reprieve from his order to make a form of emergency contraception available to all ages without a prescription. Published May 10, 2013
By Susan Crabtree - The Washington Times
Amid growing concerns about the implementation of President Obama's health care law, Mr. Obama stepped up promotion of the law by pegging its benefits to this weekend's Mother's Day celebration. Published May 10, 2013
By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
President Obama's top health officials released a massive trove of medical billing data Wednesday, which they said will help expose hospitals that charge too much for common procedures. Published May 8, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
The head of a drug manufacturer that lobbied on behalf of "Obamacare" now has come out swinging on one key aspect of the plan — the requirement for more tax rebates for dual Medicaid-Medicare recipients. Published May 8, 2013
By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee took to the House floor Monday night and implied that the right to health care and education exists in the Constitution. Published May 7, 2013
By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
Sen. Tom Harkin said he will remove his hold on President Obama's pick to lead the nation's Medicare agency, but the powerful Iowa Democrat said Tuesday he is still not happy with the administration's "penny-wise, pound-foolish" tendency to raid a fund designated for preventative health programs. Published May 7, 2013
By Joseph Curl
Like rats abandoning a sinking ship, Senate Democrats are furiously fleeing the coming disaster that is "Obamacare." Published May 5, 2013
By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
A group of small business owners has filed suit against President Obama's health care law, breathing new life into a long-simmering debate on whether the law's premium tax credits were solely intended for states that set up their own insurance markets. Published May 3, 2013
By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times
The South Carolina state House passed a bill Wednesday that declares President Obama's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to be "null and void," and criminalizes its implementation. Published May 2, 2013
By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
The Obama administration, under massive pressure from both sides of the culture war over contraception, has decided to appeal a federal court’s order to make a morning-after pill available to everyone without a prescription, just a day after expanding access to the pills for younger teenage girls. Published May 1, 2013
By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
President Obama on Tuesday vowed that his health care law will be a success for both insured and soon-to-be-covered Americans, even though it is a "big, complicated piece of business" facing ceaseless criticism on Capitol Hill and roadblocks to implementation in Republican-led states. Published April 30, 2013
By Tom Howell Jr. and - The Washington Times
Opponents of President Obama's health care law are eagerly scouring the paperwork insurers file with states, looking for early evidence of "rate shock" — rising prices ahead of full implementation of the state "exchanges" that begin next year. Published April 29, 2013
By Sen. Mitch McConnell
Two-and-a-half years ago, President Obama teamed up with Democrats in Congress to pass a health care bill they knew most Americans didn't want. Americans weren't shy about expressing their bad opinion of the bill, so Democrats settled on a dishonest sales pitch aimed at changing their minds. Published July 5, 2012
By Rep. John Boehner
There's no doubt that the president's health care law is hurting our economy. Even before the U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling on Obamacare, the president's law was driving up health costs and making it harder for small businesses to hire. Published July 5, 2012
By Grover Norquist - The Washington Times
It's official: Obamacare is Obamatax. The Supreme Court saved Obamacare but at the expense of exposing it as simply a massive collection of taxes - 20 taxes at least. Obamacare was supposed to reduce the cost of health insurance but it has six taxes on Americans who already have health insurance. Your insurance will cost more to pay Mr. Obama's tax hikes. Published July 4, 2012
By Rep. Michele Bachmann
The Supreme Court ruling on the president's health care plan resulted in a sad day for freedom, liberty and the American people. In an activist decision, the court rewrote the foundation of the Affordable Care Act and then ruled it constitutional. Published June 28, 2012
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The Supreme Court affirmed on Thursday what the White House never wanted to hear: Obamacare constitutes the largest and most regressive tax in American history. Published June 28, 2012
By Rick Santorum
The Obama presidency has been disastrous on so many levels. From unemployment to rising energy prices to an appeasing foreign policy, this Administration has exhibited a multitude of failures. Yet, if we’re to talk about the lack of forward vision that keeps us in this economic recession, look no further than Obamacare. Published June 20, 2012
By George J. Terwilliger III
A curious chorus of Obamacare devotees is being heard today to claim that only an audaciously overactivist Supreme Court could rule unconstitutional Congress' latest attempt to manage the private enterprise of health care. Published June 11, 2012
By Sen. Jon Kyl and Dr. Eric Novack
When Obamacare passed in 2010, one of its essential elements was the "essential health benefit" (EHB) mandate - in essence, the things Washington politicians thought every American's health care plan must contain. Published June 7, 2012
By Emily Miller - The Washington Times
President Obama promised his health care reform law would save money and reduce costs. It wasn't true then; it's certainly not true now. Lower- and middle-class Americans already have seen their premiums go up. They feel the pinch from taxes on everything from a wheelchair to a bottle of aspirin. While waiting for the Supreme Court to rescue us from this disaster, Congress needs to provide relief. Published June 4, 2012
By Dr. Milton R. Wolf - The Washington Times
The intertwined strands of evil DNA - Obamanomics and Obamacare - will determine the outcome of the 2012 election, and Barack Obama knows it. That's why he desperately wants to talk about something else. Anything else. A failed stimulus. Published May 8, 2012
By Emily Miller - The Washington Times
Thanks to Obamacare, more people will find themselves without health insurance. It turns out President Obama's signature accomplishment was so badly drafted that businesses are likely to find it more cost-effective to pay a government penalty than provide insurance to their employees. Published May 2, 2012
Lawmakers in Arizona have approved Gov. Jan Brewer's plan to expand Medicaid access under President Obama's health care law, capping a months-long battle between the conservative governor and members of her own party. Published June 14 2013
House Republicans who are critical of the federal health care law have written to more than a dozen companies, including top insurers Aetna and BlueCross BlueShield, to ask if President Obama's top health official tried to solicit funds from them to support the overhaul. Published May 24 2013
Potential donors to a nonprofit that promotes President Obama's health care law are reportedly reluctant to open their wallets in the wake of a scandal-laced week for the administration. Published May 20 2013
A Republican senator is citing revelations that the IRS targeted conservative political groups in a bid to block President Obama's request for funding at the agency to implement his health care law. Published May 14 2013
A key Democratic congressman said Thursday it is "a little crazy" for House Republicans to criticize the Obama administration's efforts to implement and education the public about the federal health care law, considering they've denied it funding and try to dismantle it at every turn. Published April 18 2013
A House Republican leader wants the Obama administration to explain why an application to use insurance marketplaces under the health-care law asks people if they would like to register to vote. Published March 25 2013
Sen. Orrin Hatch has never been shy in voicing his concerns about President Obama's health care law, but he was particularly put off by one aspect of a newly created health innovation center under the Affordable Care Act — treadmill desks. Published March 20 2013
A Florida businessman who sued the Obama administration over the contraception mandate in the Affordable Care Act is drawing comparisons between the requirement and his ancestors' escape from religious persecution in 17th-century England. Published March 18 2013
Senator Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Monday dared President Obama to address the unintended consequences of "Obamacare" in his State of the Union address. Published February 11 2013
A pair of powerful Republicans in the House sent yet another letter to the Treasury Department — their fourth so far — demanding documents related to the Obama administration's decision to extend tax subsidies to people who will enroll in federally run exchanges as part of the president's signature health care law. Published January 29 2013
Let the anti-Obamacare rallies begin. Americans for Prosperity plans to hold a "Hands Off My Health Care" rally on the steps of the Colorado state capitol here Friday, a day after the Supreme Court ruled constitutional the Affordable Health Care Act's individual mandate, now known as a tax. Published June 28 2012
The Supreme Court decision upholding the heart of President Obama's health care law landed with a thud at a major gathering of pro-life activists in Arlington on Thursday. Published June 28 2012
Leading House Republicans vowed to escalate the fight against President Obama's health care law, saying they're more intent than ever to repeal the whole thing after the Supreme Court upheld its constitutionality Thursday. Published June 28 2012
Conservatives upset by the Supreme Court's decision to uphold most of the 2010 health care law are furiously cutting checks to Mitt Romney's campaign. Published June 28 2012
By Kerry Picket
House Speaker John Boehner's Office released the following statement regarding a House Energy and Commerce Committee memo that details its "year-long investigation" into President Barack Obama's health care law and whether or not the legislation was created in exchange for "specific policy outcomes for public support of the law." Published May 31 2012
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A Washington Times' Commentary front page from April 2, 2010, featuring a cartoon from Alex Hunter.
