Health Care Reform

Never have American voters re-elected a president whose work they disapprove of as much as Barack Obama's. But they've also never elected a challenger viewed so negatively.

Mitt Romney and his wife, Ann, paid $1.94 million in federal taxes on last year's income of $13.7 million, for an effective tax rate of 14.1 percent, his campaign said Friday.

Congressional budget analysts are now estimating that nearly 6 million Americans most of them in the middle class will have to pay a tax penalty for not getting health insurance once President Barack Obama's health care law is fully in place.

Democrats running for the House and Senate are pouncing on Mitt Romney's remarks that nearly half of all Americans think they are "victims" entitled to government help and that he doesn't worry about "those people."

Over the past decade, theres been a consistent rise in the popularity and importance of consumer-oriented, cost-conscious employee health plans.

Missouri lawmakers enacted new religious exemptions from insurance coverage of birth control Wednesday, overriding a gubernatorial veto and delivering a political rebuke to an Obama administration policy requiring insurers to cover contraception.

Christian-oriented Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. has filed a federal lawsuit over a mandate in the health reform law that requires employers to provide coverage for the morning-after pill.

Here are some of the lesser known effects of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.