Healthcare Laws

A new report by the Census Bureau shows it is not getting any easier for our country's poor and middle class. The nation’s poverty rate last year was nearly unchanged from the year before, and households with incomes in the 20th to 60th percentile...

WASHINGTON (AP)— The ranks of America's poor remained stuck at record levels, although dwindling unemployment benefits and modest job gains helped stave off what experts had predicted would be the fourth rise in a row in the poverty rate. With...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Democrats are using one of Barack Obama's strong suits, that voters believe he understands the problems of ordinary people, to trump his weakest suit, the economy. Michelle Obama played those cards with force in a speech...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney promised he would cut deficits and put America on track to a balanced budget as president, but he left voters to take it on faith that he could deliver. The details behind that pledge, and the painful spending choices...

TAMPA, Fla. -- New Orleans and much of the Gulf Coast faced the anniversary of devastating Hurricane Katrina by hunkering down for new storm amid "a high level of anxiety," as the Crescent City's mayor put it Monday. Forecasters project Tropical Storm...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Yes, if Mitt Romney wins the White House and his Republican allies retake the Senate, he could shred most of President Barack Obama's health care law without having to overpower a Democratic filibuster. But it won't be as easy...

Since the Supreme Court’s ruling on President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act, the liberal and conservative media have been engaged in political warfare debating the law’s future impact, for good or bad, on the American people....

Wheaton College has joined more than 50 mostly Roman Catholic religious institutions suing the Obama administration for requiring religious employers to offer health insurance that covers the cost of contraception, including the morning-after pill, for...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Republican lawmakers want more questions answered before they’ll consider giving GOP Gov. Rick Snyder approval to start work on a website for purchasing health insurance required under the federal health care law,...

One could forgive viewers if they walked away confused after watching CNN's early coverage of the Supreme Court's health care decision. The network, itself, was confused. Within minutes after the decision was announced, CNN was hitting the airwaves...

In a move that could significantly expand insurance coverage of weight-loss treatments, a federal health advisory panel on Monday recommended that all obese adults receive intensive counseling in an effort to rein in a growing health crisis in America....

On Wednesday, more than 132,000 women in South Dakota became eligible for eight new health prevention-related services - birth control among them - at no direct cost because of the Affordable Care Act. "It reduces out-of-pocket cost sharing for women in...