Health Care Reform

The Obama administration's new mandate that religious organizations pay for their workers' birth control has become a bludgeon for Republican culture warriors, as social issues have surged to the forefront in the presidential campaign.

House Speaker John Boehner says if President Barack Obama doesn't reverse a new policy requiring religious schools and hospitals to provide employees with access to free birth control, the Congress will.

U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-AR) took to the Senate floor today to voice his opposition to President Obamas health care mandate that he says fails to respect the conscience rights of religious institutions.

For every dollar spent on over-the-counter medicines, the U.S. health care system saves $6 to $7providing $102 billion in value each year, the Consumer Healthcare Products Association finds.

A new report from actuarial consulting firm Milliman, Inc. shows a provision of the health reform law intended to tax health insurance companies to help fund coverage expansions will be paid entirely by state Medicaid programs for the portion assessed to Medicaid managed care organizations.

A round-up of the weeks employee benefits news, reports and controversy

Folks in the health care industry say 2012 is a tactical year because of the overwhelming list of priorities and the need to carefully allocate resources with which to accomplish them.

If the Supreme Court rules that the individual mandate is unconstitutional, then the shared responsibility provision of the law requiring employers to offer health coverage that satisfies the individual mandate should also be struck down, the American Benefits Council is arguing.