Health Care Reform

Though its defined his presidency, Barack Obama made little mention of his massive health reform law in his hour-plus State of the Union Address. Insteadand not surprisinglyhe diverted attention to the good hes done, and blamed the bad on everyone else.

President Barack Obama laid out an array of plans in his State of the Union speech as if his hands weren't so tied by political realities.

Work on Nebraska's own version of health care insurance reform will begin in earnest next month when bills to create the Nebraska Health Benefit Exchange Act come up for debate, two state lawmakers said Tuesday.

The Supreme Court won't hear arguments from a conservative watchdog group that wants Justice Elena Kagan disqualified from deciding the constitutionality of President Barack Obama's national health care overhaul.

Wisconsin will turn down $37 million from the federal government that had been awarded to help implement health care exchanges under President Barack Obama's health care reform law, Gov. Scott Walker said Wednesday.

The American Nurses Association and five other health care groups representing millions of health care professionals have filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in support of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Acts minimum coverage requirement for most U.S. citizens.

Despite Romney's wealthier, well-oiled campaign, he and Santorum each collected about a fourth of the vote. The Iowa GOP said Romney got 30,015 votes, to 30,007 for Santorum, who racked up support while touring Iowa's rural areas in his pickup truck.

Newt Gingrich, who finished a distant fourth in the Iowa caucuses, says the GOP presidential campaign is not like running for senior class president and isn't a game.