Three large health insurers including WellPoint Inc. and Aetna Inc. say that a high percentage of their new Obamacare customers are paying their first premiums.
The first U.S. case of a potentially lethal virus from the Arabian peninsula sparked a call from Democrats for congressional hearings on the threat it may pose to the country.
Obamacare reduced the percentage of adults without health insurance to its lowest point since 2008 even as the law remains unpopular with the public, separate surveys showed.
Higher consumer spending on health services, increased prescriptions for costly medications and more elective surgeries suggests Americans are using the insurance they gained under Obamacare.
e U.S. Medicare program said it would increase payments to nonprofit community health clinics by as much as $1.3 billion over the next five years under a new reimbursement system ordered by Obamacare.
Oregons health insurance exchange, plagued by computer flaws after federal taxpayers spent $303 million to build it, may be closed and the states customers shifted to the federal marketplace.
Adding low-income adults earning near-poverty incomes to Medicaid, under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, would cost states about $46 billion over a decade.
With more than 8 million Americans now dependent on medical coverage through Obamacare, the law may finally be cemented into the foundation of society.