Health Care Reform

PPACA wins in court, target date funds miss target and the HR frenzy in Vegas

Another unintended consequence of President Barack Obama's health care law has emerged: Older adults of the same age and income with similar medical histories could pay widely different amounts for private health insurance due to a quirk of the complex legislation.

In the first ruling by a federal appeals court on President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, a panel in Cincinnati affirmed Wednesday that Congress can require Americans to have minimum insurance coverage.

Americans seem not to have awakened to the fast-looming debt crisis that could summon a new recession, imperil their stock market investments and shatter faith in the world's most powerful economy. Those are among the implications, both sudden and long-lasting, expected to unfold if the U.S. defaults on debt payments...

Although McKinsey released the methodology of its ESI study early this week after heavy pressure from Democrats, those same Dems aren't getting any quieter.

A new report says many public health provisions in the nation's year-old health care law have not received funding, and other funded efforts are under political attack.