HEALTH CARE REFORM

Since President Barack Obama signed the U.S. Affordable Care Act in 2010, only a dozen states have created the legal authority for a health insurance exchange to comply with the law, while five have passed legislation to produce feasibility studies.

The Obama administration is abandoning a long-term care program in the 2010 U.S. health care reform law because it is financially unsustainable, but experts say there is great need for the program.

The Obama administration cut a major long-term health provision Friday that was part of the sweeping 2010 health care reform law, with officials saying they could not model the plan as both a voluntary and budget-neutral one.

The Obama administration is pulling the plug on a long-term, home-care program included in the 2010 healthcare reform law that Republicans have derided as a budget trick.

California governor Jerry Brown signs law requiring insurance companies to cover autism therapies.

Liberty University, a Christian college Jerry Falwell founded, asked the U.S. Supreme Court to take up its challenge to the Affordable Care Act.

President Barack Obama based his health care law directly on a similar law passed in Massachusetts when Mitt Romney was governor, an investigation has found.

While its not yet clear who make up the supporters of the burgeoning Occupy Wall Street movement, the young adults who populate the demonstrations face a high unemployment rate and massive debt.

Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor, announced Wednesday that she will not be seeking the Republican nomination for president for 2012

Ron Paul has said that Obama should be impeached for approving the assassination of Anwar al-Awlaki, and says he supports the Occupy Wall Street protesters.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry has plummeted in the polls since conservatives discovered he was not 100 percent ideologically pure. But it is impossible to govern while maintaining a perfect conservative or liberal record.

Orthopedic surgeons are much more hesitant to see kids with broken bones than they were a decade ago, suggests new research from California.

The Obama administration petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to decide on the constitutionality of requiring most Americans to buy health insurance. But he also offered them an option to avoid making that decision.

There are a few cases challenging President Barack Obama's health care reform law for the Supreme Court to take up. The consensus seems to be the high court will choose 11th Circuit Court decision.

Cain has very little political experience; his career has been almost entirely in business. As a result, he has no voting or governing record to turn to for an idea of his political views; voters will have to rely entirely on the things he has said during his campaign.

The cost of health insurance continues to climb for U.S. companies and workers, with annual family premiums this year growing at a pace triple that of 2010 and outpacing wage increases, according to a survey.

The cost of health insurance continues to climb for companies and workers, with annual family premiums this year growing at a pace triple that of 2010 and outpacing wage increases, according to a survey.

The cost of health insurance continues to climb for U.S. companies and workers, with annual family premiums this year growing at a pace triple that of 2010 and outpacing wage increases, according to a survey.

The Obama administration declined to have an appeals court further review a decision on health care reform, which clears a path for the U.S. Supreme Court to take up the measure in June.

Young adults are gaining health insurance faster than ever, mostly due to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Although President Obama’s new deficit reduction plan will be portrayed as a tax hike, in reality, it by and large returns the tax code, with a few exceptions, to levels that existed prior to the 2001 Bush income tax cut -- a cut that fundamentally altered the U.S.'s fiscal and economic trajectory. The nation has been trying to recover ever since.