Health Care Reform

1993U.S. Sen. John Chafee, R-Rhode Island, introduces the Health Equity and Access Reform Act, which includes a mandate, complete a non-compliance penalty. Supporters include Sens. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, and Republican Kit Bond from Missouri.

The Senate has passed a bill that would accept more than $50 billion federal dollars and offer health coverage to more than 1 million Floridians under the federal health law.

The first draft was as mind-numbing and complex as tax forms. Now the Obama administration is unveiling a simplified application for health insurance benefits under the federal health care overhaul.

A timeline of health reform, the moments, turning points and events that defined the debate, 1993-present.

Hospitals could see a small pay raise from the U.S. government for treating Medicare patients.

Though physicians havent been on board with all of President Obamas solutions to health care, they are embracing at least one approach.

More mid-size employers say stepping back from health care reform would greatly improve their economic forecasts for the next year, according to a recent study by Deloitte Development L.L.C.

Believe it or not, Democrats and Republicans are still fighting over a group of people some would argue neither have cared about for decades.