Supreme Court will hear health care case this term

Obamacare

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court said Monday it will hear arguments next March over President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul — a case that could shake the political landscape as voters are deciding if Obama deserves another term.

Firms to charge smokers, obese more for healthcare

A pair of smokers stand outside of an office building in the Times Square region of New York

Like a lot of companies, Veridian Credit Union wants its employees to be healthier. In January, the Waterloo, Iowa-company rolled out a wellness program and voluntary screenings.

Obama opposes repeal of healthcare program suspended last week

Obamacare

President Obama is against repealing the health law’s long-term-care CLASS Act and might veto Republican efforts to do so, an administration official tells The Hill, despite the government’s announcement Friday that the program was dead in the water.

Feds to design health insurance for the masses

ObamaCare

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, AP WASHINGTON  – The federal government is taking on a crucial new role in the nation’s health care, designing a basic benefits package for millions of privately insured Americans. A framework for the Obama administration was released Friday. The report by independent experts from the Institute of Medicine lays out guidelines for [...]

Number of Brits waiting more than 18 weeks for health care rises 26%

Universal Healthcare

Doctors are blaming financial pressures on the NHS for an increase in the number of patients who are not being treated within the 18 weeks that the government recommends.

Mitt Romney to give big health care speech in Michigan

mitt

Mitt Romney’s major health care speech on Thursday has a single goal: ending the current fixation on “RomneyCare.”

Colorado latest state to test rejecting federal health care law

healthcare

DENVER — Colorado Republicans are the latest state lawmakers to test ideas challenging the new federal health care law. But the proposal that advanced in the GOP House Tuesday faces long odds in a divided Legislature.

Baby Joseph Safely Home in Canada

DeMint won’t back Romney without repudiation of Mass. health law

Romney Demint

Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) “would never consider” endorsing former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney for president again in 2012 unless Romney repudiates the health reforms he sought as governor, a source close to DeMint said Thursday.

Tea Party group to GOP: Don’t ‘reward collaborators’ on healthcare law

healthcare reform

By Julian Pecquet, The Hill Republicans should refuse to “reward collaborators” by not helping industry groups that supported the healthcare law unless they support its full repeal, the conservative FreedomWorks organization told House leaders in a confidential memo sent Monday. “Don’t reward collaborators,” the memo states. The memo suggests repeal is within reach, and advises [...]

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