HEALTH CARE REFORM

Declaring that the highest court in the land has now spoken, President Barack Obama vowed to press ahead with implementing the sweeping health care reform law whose constitutionality the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed on Thursday.

The Supreme Court's approval of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is unambiguously good for American business, a George Mason University analyst said Thursday, a view also expressed by Standard & Poor's Ratings Services.

The sharply-divided U.S. Supreme Court Thursday that upheld President Barack Obama's signature public policy initiative took most of official Washington by surprise.

After the Supreme Court health care decision, the National Retail Federation, the world's largest advocate for merchandisers, said Thursday the law is too complicated and difficult for businesses to implement and administer.

By upholding the individual mandate that is the health care law's linchpin, the Supreme Court has rebuffed Republicans who had hoped to accomplish through the judiciary their goal of dismantling the act.

The Supreme Court health care decision confirming the constitutionality of the president's signature legislative achievement and expanding insurance to millions of low-income Americans under Medicaid will provide a large influx of new customers and notable revenue opportunity for Medicaid-focused managed-care organizations (MCOs).

The largest association of U.S. physicians praised the Supreme Court's decision Thursday to uphold the Affordable Care Act as a key to expanding health care to some 30 million Americans.

Chief Justice John Roberts sided with the court's liberal judges to uphold the law's individual mandate.

The fate of the Obama administration's health care reform law may finally be settled this week, when the U.S. Supreme Court is widely expected to finally announce whether the politically charged law will live or die.

It's been overlooked -- it's received very little coverage by the popular press -- but it's worth repeating: one benefit of the U.S. health care reform legislation will be: enhanced employee mobility.

The Commonwealth Fund, a private health care reform advocacy group, surveyed more than 1,800 young adults between ages 19 to 29 and estimated that about 13.7 million young adults across the US joined or stayed on their parents' plans in 2011.

A cache of internal emails published in the Wall Street Journal illuminates how Mitt Romney made a mandate to purchase health insurance the linchpin of Massachusetts' sweeping 2006 health care law.

Tea Party members and other conservatives would like Americans to believe that the United States? problems started in 2009, but nothing could be further from the truth. Three major policy errors by President George W. Bush last decade substantially worsened the U.S.?s fiscal condition, and the nation has been trying to recover ever since.

The Romney campaign unleashed its first general election ad on Friday morning, in which the presumed Republican nominee promises to make changes to Obama's policies during his first day in office

Nick Hanauer, a multimillionaire venture capitalist from Seattle, believes that rich people like himself aren't job creators. He made this known during a March 1 TED University conference where he spoke about income inequality, but that talk was censored.

Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives added amendments to a Justice Department funding bill that would restrict taxpayer money from litigation involving voter ID laws, the health care law and other politically-divisive issues.

Senator Richard Lugar, who recently lost a primary election for the first time in 36 years, is a legend for his efficacy as a bipartisan politician. Now 80 years old, he will retire from the Senate and pursue other means of public service.

Rick Santorum defended his seemingly tepid endorsement of Mitt Romney on the 'Tonight Show with Jay Leno' on Tuesday and said he wasn't trying to bury it at all by sending an e-mail late at night.

Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, one of Mitt Romney's most vehement critics, is expected to endorse the presumed Republican nominee, four months after dropping out of the race.

Hospitals would be crushed from the cost of caring for uninsured Americans if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns the health care reform mandate, which requires that most people obtain coverage, Moody's Investor Service said.

The pharmaceutical industry is paying close attention to a case that could determine if about 90,000 sales representatives are entitled to overtime pay.