Health Care Reform

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.

America may be a technology-driven nation, but the health care system's conversion from paper to computerized records needs lots of work to get the bugs out, according to experts who spent months studying the issue.

House Republican leaders are drafting a bill to replace President Barack Obama's health care overhaul if the Supreme Court strikes it down this summer.

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.