The Obama Administration’s proposed solution to the impasse over contraceptives is unlikely to end the debate.

ABC News’s Jake Tapper is reporting this morning that the Obama Administration will be offering a compromise of some form regarding its controversial new rule requiring employers to provide coverage for contraceptives to their employees: With the White House under fire for its new rule requiring employers including religious organizations to offer health insurance that [...]

Once again, a government entity thinks the average person is too dumb to take care of themselves.

Will the Obama Administration’s decision on contraceptive coverage by the Catholic Church have an impact in November?

Requiring a religious institution to comply with civilian laws is not a violation of religious liberty.

Newt Gingrich spent much of yesterday making his case against Mitt Romney on the grounds that Romney’s history with the Massachusetts health care reform plan would make it impossible for him to draw real distinctions between himself and President Obama on the issue of health care. As it turns out, though, Romney isn’t the only [...]

Sarah Kiff makes an important point about one of the primary motivations behind the force restructuring that President Obama announced earlier this week at the Pentagon, basically we are nearing the point where the largest item in the military budget will be health care costs: About 9.6 million Americans are eligible for military health care [...]

The Chief Justice Of The United States defends his colleagues.

Via Taegan Goddard and Buzzfeed, we have yet more evidence to support the idea that Newt Gingrich was one of those conservatives who, until not too long ago, was 100% behind the idea of a health insurance mandate: That was 2008.

The latest example of a Newt Gingrich flip-flop could prove embarrassing: Newt Gingrich voiced enthusiasm for Mitt Romney’s Massachusetts health-care law when it was passed five years ago, the same plan he has been denouncing over the past few months as he campaigned for the Republican presidential nomination. “The health bill that Governor Romney signed [...]

The Supreme Court has taken the somewhat unusual step of setting aside three days on its calendar just to hear the various aspects of the Constitutional challenge to the Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act: The Supreme Court will hear arguments on President Obama’s healthcare law over a three-day span in late March. The schedule [...]

C-Span has formally petitioned the Supreme Court for permission to televise the 5 1/2 hour oral argument on the Constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act: Ruling on the health reform law is sure to be one of the most important Supreme Court cases of this generation and the court has budgeted more than 5 hours [...]

Questions have been raised about whether it is proper for Elena Kagan to hear the Affordable Care Act lawsuit.

The Supreme Court will decide on the Constitutionality of the President’s health care law by June 2012.

The PPACA now has a 3-1 record in US appeals courts.

Lyle Denniston reports that the Supreme Court is set to take its first look at the challenges to the Affordable Care Act in a private conference on November 10th: The Supreme Court will take its first look at the challenges to the new federal health care law at its Conference on Thursday, November 10.  Five [...]

Mitt Romney’s health care plan subsidized health care for illegal immigrants.

The health care battle is formally joined in the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court is on track to issue its most anticipated ruling in years right in the middle a Presidential campaign.

Last week’s opinions from the Fourth Circuit provide an avenue for the Supreme Court to avoid an early ruling on the individual mandate.

The last two GOP debates have featured cheers from the crowd and responses from candidates that ought to be considered problematic.

One of the most bizarre moments of last night’s debate came when Ron Paul was asked a question about how he would handle a person who needed immediate medical care but had no money or insurance: Blitzer asked if under Paul’s libertarian philosophy, a sick man without insurance should be allowed to die in the [...]

Both Virginia lawsuits challenging the Affordable Care Act have been dismissed by a Federal Appeals Court.

For the past 18 months, Medicare spending has slowed down considerably – especially compared to the private sector.

Another government program isn’t going to bring health care costs under control.

Should the state be able to take your kid away if he gets too fat?

Not surprisingly, people still order that big juicy cheeseburger even after being told it contains over 1,000 calories.

Whatever happened to the GOP’s promise to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act?

The first Appeals Court decision on the Affordable Care Act was a victory for the government.

A setback for Planned Parenthood opponents.

Democrats would like people to believe that supporting the Ryan Plan’s Medicare changes is so unpopular with the public that it will hurt the GOP at the polls, but that’s not necessarily the case: A Wall Street Journal/NBC poll asks Americans whether they would be more likely or less likely to vote for a candidate who [...]

It was a good day in Court for opponents of the Affordable Care Act.

How insurance makes health care more expensive

Another appellate panel heard arguments on the Constitutionality of the health care reform law this week.

We need to stop talking as if the Medicare debate is a question of the Ryan Plan v. the Status Quo.

Arguments for the Ryan Plan that characterize it as being “against bureaucracy” are apparently oblivious to the fact that private health insurance is full of bureaucracy.

As Congress left town for the long weekend, the Senate Minority Leader threw a grenade into the budget negotiations.

The Care Quality Commission has found widespread neglect of elderly patients in the British National Health Service.

There were two show votes in the Senate today on competing budget plans, and they turned out just about as everyone expected: With five Republicans joining Democrats in opposition, the Senate easily rejected a House-passed budget plan Wednesday calling for deep cuts in domestic appropriations and major restructuring of Medicare, the government-backed healthcare program for [...]

Former President Clinton doesn’t necessarily think his fellow Democrats are pursuing the right policy in their response to the Ryan Plan: WASHINGTON (CNNMoney) — Bill Clinton had a word of warning on Wednesday for fellow Democrats: Don’t get too cocky about voters’ rejection of Paul Ryan’s Medicare plan. In a special election for a vacant [...]

It’s just one Congressional District out of 435, but that won’t stop everyone from trying to turn the results in NY-26 into a national referendum on Medicare reform.

The 4th Circuit has asked for supplemental briefs on an issue that could put a quick end to the lawsuits against the Affordable Care Act.

Voters in New York State may help move the budget debate on Capitol Hill.

Even before the individual mandate kicks in, the ACA has added hundreds of thousands of people to health insurance rolls.

This, an ad from some group calling itself The Agenda Project, is what American politics has come to: This is considered a rational debate on fiscal policy in this country. Pretty damn sad. H/T: Hot Air

The latest example of the extent to which Senate Republicans do not wish to associate themselves with the Ryan Plan comes in the news the Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell will not try to persuade his caucus members to support the plan when it comes up for a vote: Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) [...]

As I noted yesterday, former Speaker Newt Gingrich pretty much threw the Ryan Plan’s Medicare reforms under the bus in a Meet The Press interview. Interestingly, Gingrich was singing a very different tune two weeks ago: A couple of weeks ago, I spent a day following Newt Gingrich around New Hampshire. After a radio interview [...]

Newt Gingrich’s appearance on Meet The Press today is likely to get a lot of attention mostly for the fact that clearly, and rather emphatically, distanced himself from the Medicare reforms proposed by Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan and adopted by the House GOP: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy [...]

The latest Medicare Trustee’s report is fairly sobering: The new Medicare trustees report says the trust fund is now likely to run out of money in 2024, five years earlier than predicted last year. The reason, according to CMS, is that the economic recovery has been slower than expected — making tax revenues come in [...]

Earlier this week, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, who I normally have a pretty decent amount of respect for considering he’s a Senator, took a little trip into rhetorical fantasy land when he tried to analogize universal health care to slavery: Rand Paul, the freshman senator from Kentucky, was speaking recently about healthcare, specifically the new [...]