For decades, the attempts at health care reform have aimed to increase access. The United States is one of the few industrialized nations in the world that does not provide universal health care to its citizens. And repeatedly, those who oppose it have been forced to argue that access isn’t the problem [...]
The Nebraska legislature recently overrode a veto of their governor, Dave Heineman, who sought to stop a law that would allow free prenatal care to undocumented women.
The decision made unlikely allies among organizations like Planned Parenthood and Nebraska Catholic Conference, both of which agree that [...]
On Tuesday, Minnesota’s attorney general released a report on a particularly egregious debt collecting agency, whose employees freely roamed hospitals and did not think to identify themselves as debt collectors, leaving patients to think they were hospital employees.
The AG, Lori Swanson, has sued Accretive Health. [...]
The Supreme Court heard three days of arguments about Obamacare (and you can listen to/read Wednesday’s proceedings here). There’s not much to do but argue while we await the justices’ decision, which is expected in June.
The most pointed exchanges came during the questions about the health care program’s individual [...]
And now the Supreme Court gets into the meat of the case for and against Pres. Obama’s health care mandate — or Obamacare — the constitutionality.
Yesterday, lawyers argued whether the Court should even be listening to the case, based on whether they must wait until someone has paid a tax they [...]
