Health Care Reform

The federal health care overhaul will cause insurance premiums to rise, in some cases substantially, for Oregonians who buy their own insurance or get their coverage from a small employer, according to the findings of new study.

The last of rebates to consumers from health insurers were due to be sent out this week.

House Republicans on Thursday grilled the head of the Internal Revenue Service on the agency's decision to apply the health care law's tax credits in states that decide not to carry out a key provision of the statute.

Accountable care organizations top a long list of should-be priorities for the health care industry, a new survey finds, though by reviewing some numbers, you wouldnt know it.

Beginning Wednesday, all new health insurance plans will be required to provide eight preventive health benefits to women for free as part of health care reform.

The number of Nebraskans without health insurance has exploded over the last decade as rising costs force more small businesses, farmers and individuals to drop coverage, a state health researcher said Tuesday.

A New Orleans congressman is asking Gov. Bobby Jindal to reconsider his position against expanding Louisiana's Medicaid program, as allowed under the federal health care overhaul.

Americans favor the idea of extending health coverage to the low-income through the governments Medicaid program, a key part of health reform, but still arent sure on the law in its entirety.